Theme in common in Anthem and V for Vendetta

In both the book Anthem and the movie V for Vendetta, the government completely controls the society. They are willing to do anything in order to retain their power. For example, the government in V for Vendetta created a biological virus in order to create fear and make the people obey them. In Anthem, children are brainwashed since infancy to agree with the Councils mindlessly.
Governments are supposed to be run by the citizens and not the other way around. In this quote “The Teachers were just, for they had been appointed by the Councils, and the Councils are the voice of all justice, for they are the voice of all men. And if sometimes, in the secret darkness of our heart, we regret that which befell us on our fifteenth birthday, we know that it was through our own guilt.” We can see that in the world of Anthem, the Councils control everything the people does. The people also learn that they are nothing and the authority, the councils, controls everything: "We are nothing. Mankind is all. By the grace of our brothers are we allowed our lives. We exist through, by and for our brothers who are the State. Amen." In V for Vendetta, the government prosecutes and torture anyone who dares to speak against them.
Another similitude between the two is fear, the people who are in power creates fear in their people so they do not dare to riot against them. In V for Vendetta, the fascist government manipulates the news by censoring and adding false news. The St-Mary virus incident was planned by The Party so the people would be scared and vote for them. In Anthem, people fears to speak freely, because they aren’t sure if their thoughts are the thoughts of all, as shown in this quotation: “And as we all undress at night, in the dim light of the candles, our brothers are silent, for they dare not speak the thoughts of their minds. For all must agree with all, and they cannot know if their thoughts are the thoughts of all, and so they fear to speak. And they are glad when the candles are blown for the night. But we, Equality 7-2521, look through the window upon the sky, and there is peace in the sky, and cleanliness, and dignity. And beyond the City there lies the plain, and beyond the plain, black upon the black sky, there lies the Uncharted Forest.” The governments also modify the history so they look benevolent. For example, in Anthem, the Councils claim that the time before the Great Rebirth was full of evil and if we don’t listen to the Councils, chaos will return. “But we must never speak of the times before the Great Rebirth, else we are sentenced to three years in the Palace of Corrective Detention. It is only the Old Ones who whisper about it in the evenings, in the Home of the Useless. They whisper many strange things, of the towers which rose to the sky, in those Unmentionable Times, and of the wagons which moved without horses, and of the lights which burned without flame. But those times were evil. And those times passed away, when men saw the Great Truth which is this: that all men are one and that there is no will save the will of all men together.” The same happens in V for Vendetta, The Party claim that they unify the country together; without them, the country will fall into chaos and lawlessness.