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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK
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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (32063)2/4/1999 4:50:00 PM
From: cody andre  Read Replies (1) of 67261
 
Pre-1936, Orwell was flirting with Communist ideas and the British Communist Party (part of the Komintern). Only after witnessing the "deeds" of Komintern commissars during the Spanish Civil War (a la Beria) and especially, after the Hitler-Stalin Pact of August 1939, did he become anti-totalitarian. His war years at BBC only strengthen his views of Nazis and Communists (which are both the same evil).

Thus, THE ANIMAL FARM and "1984" books which by the way, were banned and punishable by jail in pre-1989 Communist-occupied countries.

Just a reminder, many Western intellectuals in the US, UK, France, etc. were openly sympathetic of or members of the respective Communist/ local Nazi parties. It was during that period that Stalin NKVD and GRU recruited such luminaries as Kim Philby et al (at Cambridge), Alger Hiss, etc. // CA
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