The party slogan echoes Orwell's famous dictum in
1984: "Slavery Is Freedom; War Is Peace. Interestingly enough, in the movie based on Orwell's novel, Hurt plays Winston Smith and the late Richard Burton portrayed the Party's interrogator who tortured Smith in the aptly named MinPeace. Ministry Of Peace. Very felicitious, those totalitarian dictatorships. The irony of the language escapes their notice even as they seek all encompassing control over every thought of their hapless subjects.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")