Growing up in North Korea, Yeonmi Park did not know of the concepts of love or friendship. Everyone was a “comrade” and feelings of adoration were reserved for the rogue regime’s supreme leader alone. Her parents never told her they loved her. …Sounds very, very familiar.
We have cut the links between child and parent, and between man and man, and between man and woman. No one dares trust a wife or a child or a friend any longer. But in the future, there will be no wives and no friends. […] There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother (Dear Leader). There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. …Orwell completely nailed it when it comes to these kind of regimes.
Orwell got the concepts from Marx and Engles. All of the breakdown of society in socialist states and ideologies are all outlined in Marx’s and Engles’ works. A culture of distrust is necessary in order to control the thoughts of the workers and protect them from the ever present threat of capitalist thought. It’ all in the “manual”.