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minus-squaredavelAlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·5 days agoOrwell was often disparaging the Soviet Union. He was also a racist, antisemitic, homophobic, backstabbing snitch: Orwell’s list. He was also an imperial enforcer in British-occupied Burma. “I loved Burma and the Burman and have no regrets that I spent the best years of my life in the Burma police.” Animal Farm was Cold War agitprop, which the CIA airdropped on eastern Europe, and they made it into an animated film that you may have seen. The CIA funded the film adaptation of 1984 as well.
Orwell was often disparaging the Soviet Union.
He was also a racist, antisemitic, homophobic, backstabbing snitch: Orwell’s list.
He was also an imperial enforcer in British-occupied Burma. “I loved Burma and the Burman and have no regrets that I spent the best years of my life in the Burma police.”
Animal Farm was Cold War agitprop, which the CIA airdropped on eastern Europe, and they made it into an animated film that you may have seen. The CIA funded the film adaptation of 1984 as well.