I think he fought in the Spanish civil war if I’m remembering it correctly but I don’t think he actually lived in the su ever

  • @thetablesareorange
    24•1 year ago

    I don’t think he ever even visited, 1984 is actually just a ripoff of the book We written in 1924. After the Spanish civil war he returned to London to write propaganda for the BBC and live with his wife who worked in the censorship department of the British ministry of information

    • @hegginses
      8•1 year ago

      He was also:

      • educated in Eton
      • a colonial policeman in British-occupied Myanmar (then “Burma”)
      • an anti-communist rat for the imperialist British state
      • not even called George Orwell, his real name is Eric Arthur Blair

      He was scum, pure and simple