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minus-squareJaderick@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·1 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.
minus-squareumbrella@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-223 hours agoorwell was very well known to be a big anticommunist. hence his comparison of soviet russia with fascism.
?? 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.
orwell was very well known to be a big anticommunist. hence his comparison of soviet russia with fascism.