The Ministry of Love was the really frightening one. There were no windows in it at all.

Winston had never been inside the Ministry of Love, nor within half a kilometre of it.

It was a place impossible to enter except on official business, and then only by penetrating through a maze of barbed-wire entanglements, steel doors, and hidden machine-gun nests. Even the streets leading up to its outer barriers were roamed by gorilla-faced guards in black uniforms, armed with jointed truncheons.