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Not about V for Vendetta, but my when my wife saw Animal Farm for the first time a couple of weeks ago she thought it was pretty accurate. V can be interpreted
by alexfarran 14y ago
Not about V for Vendetta, but my when my wife saw Animal Farm for the first time a couple of weeks ago she thought it was pretty accurate.
V can be interpreted any way you want depending on who you think the bad guys are. The Chinese government was established by revolutionaries after all.
- arethuza 14y agoOrwell had direct experience of Soviet-directed communist repression in Spain as a member of Trotsky-influenced POUM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homage_to_Catalonia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homage_to_Catalonia
- lotu 14y agoHowever all governments are established by a revolution of some form or another.
- ejfox 14y agoTell that to Canada.
- fywacro 14y agoUm... What about Australia? Canada? Barbados? At least a dozen former British colonies established their independence gradually and peacefully, with the willing cooperation of the UK. No fighting, animosity, or anything that could be remotely considered a "revolution". (Now of course, not ALL former colonies separated peacefully: India, The United States, etc. But there are plenty of examples on both sides.) And how about Iceland?
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- vorg 14y agoYou're counting country numbers instead of population numbers. China, India, and the US are all high-pop places, each supported by a major river system.