• Jaderick@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    ?? IIRC 1984 was criticism of all totalitarianism which he saw in Stalin’s Soviet Russia and Franco’s Fascist Spain. He was a democratic socialist, and opposed to authoritarianism.

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      23 hours ago

      orwell was very well known to be a big anticommunist. hence his comparison of soviet russia with fascism.