That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis and The Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn has a similar theme throughout about the power hungry governments manipulating them and how they maintain control. In That Hideous Strength, NICE has been utilizing propaganda from the start controlling all aspects of the media and what the public is allowed to see. Earlier in the novel, the reader learns that Jack is instructed to create false news articles that puts NICE into a better light to make it seem like they have the best intentions. Through the positive persona NICE puts out in the media they are able to trick the public into believing that they are there to help ultimately gaining their blind compliance. In reality, NICE is simply power hungry and only cares about the goals they have in mind, no matter if it harms the innocent public. Eventually Mark realizes the true nature of NICE after being arrested by NICE for no reason and soon aims to stop them. As Ransom explains to Merlin, “Their own strength has betrayed them. They have gone to the gods who would not have come to them, and pulled down Deep Heaven on their heads.” (271) In this quote Ransom is explaining to Merlin the dire situation they are in as well as the betrayal they feel they face after blindly trusting NICE. Similarly in The Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn portrays the Soviet Union in a parallel manner to NICE. Both organizations are seen as sneaky, manipulative, and dishonest. Like NICE, the Soviet Union also tampers with the news and media to hide what they are doing to the innocent civilians they capture. Additionally the Soviet Union can also be seen as power driven by their use of force during their arrests. To start, the Soviet Union already has no right to be arresting these people, but after they arrest them it is not enough to put them to work, they first must starve, interrogate, deprive them of sleep, and beat them. All of these forms of torture display how evil and hungry for power the Soviet Union is. The Soviet Union, “Like raging beasts, abandoning every concept of “humanity,” abandoning all humane principles which had evolved through the millennia, they began to round up the very best farmers and their families, and to drive them, stripped of their possessions, naked, into the northern wastes, into the tundra and the taiga” (65). The Soviet Union, similarly like NICE, will not let anything get in their way, not an innocent civilian, not the law, and not a sense of humanity. Ultimately in both novels many parallels can be seen through the differing government systems in charge.