Becoming a spook, handing over lists of British marxists to the government, and writing anticommunist propaganda involving animals whose animated adaptation is funded by the CIA to own the Leninists
What I learned about this dude in school basically amounted to a hagiography
"One of the greatest writers of all time" my ass
My understanding of Animal Farm was that it was meant to be an allegory for the Trotsky-Stalin split, because Orwell was a Trot.
Orwell definitely was not a Trotskyist, he believed in a democratic rank and file organizing strategy, but anything else is doubtful imo.
In the Spanish Civil War he fought with a Trotskyist militia. I always just assumed that meant he was one.