"Dystopia is utopia's polarized mirror image. Dystopia angrily challenges utopia's fundamental assumption of human perfectibility, arguing that humanity's inherent flaws negate the possibility of constructing perfect societies, except for those that are perfectly hellish. Dystopias are solely fictional, presenting grim, oppressive societies—with the moralistic goal of preventing the horrors they illustrate. Dystopias are deliberately written to frighten the reader; the fact that it, too, is fictitious offers scant comfort, because it is equally possible. "(New Dictionary of the History of Ideas (Vol. 2. )
Your job is to find an example from history or the present that reflects the most horrific, grimmest, and oppressive elements of humanity.
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