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About seven years before he was sending letters to the British Foreign Office of who to blackball during the UK's version of the Red Scare - people like Charlie
by regularization 1y ago
About seven years before he was sending letters to the British Foreign Office of who to blackball during the UK's version of the Red Scare - people like Charlie Chaplin.
He even wrote a book a year before this (1984) denouncing societies that had people denouncing each other for political heresy. Psychological projection. What a htpocrite.
- rhcom2 1y agoPretty interesting, I had no idea about this: The George Orwell Paradox: From Spy Target to Informant https://spyscape.com/article/surveillance-state-how-british-soviet-spies-targeted-novelist-george-orwell https://spyscape.com/article/surveillance-state-how-british-...
- skinnymuch 1y agoYeah. Western hegemony has an interest in presenting the Animal Farm guy a certain way.
- mathiaspoint 1y agoI think most people stop at 1984 or animal farm and have no idea what Orwell really thought about society and politics.
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- skinnymuch 1y agoYes very much so. Thankfully someone in this thread (even if only you) saying the correct context.