Yevgeny Zamyatin

Let us remember Zamyatin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Zamyatin

Zamyatin wrote a number of short stories, in fairy tale form, that constituted satirical criticism of the Communist regime in Russia, such as in a story about a city where the mayor decides that to make everyone happy he should make everyone equal. He starts by forcing everyone, himself included, to live in a big barrack, then to shave heads to be equal to the bald, and then to become mentally disabled to equate intelligence downward.

Anyone who has had a run-in with the powers that be in charge of British state-"education" may have an eerie moment of self-recognition.