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Surely the more important piece of missing context is that Animal Farm was published in 1945, while World War II was still raging and the Soviet Union and the U
by resolutebat 3y ago
Surely the more important piece of missing context is that Animal Farm was published in 1945, while World War II was still raging and the Soviet Union and the UK were Allies fighting Nazi Germany?
They were always odd bedfellows, but the enemy of my enemy is my friend (at least temporarily), and it's sensible not to antagonize your friend when you're both engaged in literal mortal combat against the enemy.
- constantcrying 3y agoNo. Much of the British and American elite (especially those not of the intellectual class), was still absolutely opposed to communism (Operation Unthinkable), they had supported the USSR with enormous amounts of war material, because they prefered Communism taking over large parts of Europe over Fascism doing the same. (WW2 nominally started over the German/Soviet invasion of Poland) On the other hand the british and american intellectual class saw the USSR as worthy of emulation. They wanted a Stalinist regime in Britain/America.