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

    • carlin [he/him,comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      in the preface to the Ukrainian edition (which is reprinted elsewhere now) he says:

      A number of readers may finish the book with the impression that it ends in the complete reconciliation of the pigs and the humans. That was not my intention; on the contrary I meant to end on a loud note of discord, for I wrote it immediately after the Teheran Conference which everybody thought had established the best possible relations between the USSR and the West. I personally did not believe that such good relations would last long; and, as events have shown, I wasn't far wrong.