• @Holyhandgrenade
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    45 hours ago

    It was banned in both the Soviet Union and the US.
    In the Soviet Union it was banned for being anti-communist.
    In the US it was banned for being communist.

    • fxomt
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      23 hours ago

      Orwell was trolling before it even existed lmao

      • @Holyhandgrenade
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        27 minutes ago

        Nah he was just anti-authoritarian and both the US and USSR governments saw themselves reflected in the text

        • fxomt
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          123 seconds ago

          lmao, yeah thats why i love his books.

          its crazy to me how people will read it and not realize the main point was anti authoritarianism/totalitarianism, and think it was about socialism despite orwell himself being a democratic socialist. Most be up in the list of most misinterpreted writers