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@goatsarah
In one of the appendices to 1984, regarding the construction of the now-defunct Newspeak, the meta-narrator refers to Ingsoc, and indeed the State, in the historical sense. The implication is absolutely that Oceania collapsed as a whole, likely not long after Winston Smith's suicide. Except nobody seems to read that part, or for that matter the 'extra' chapter in A Clockwork Orange...