> The book was published in 1945, perhaps it was to do with the fact that USSR was an ally at the time? I think it started before the war. Orwell wrote in 1938

> The book was published in 1945, perhaps it was to do with the fact that USSR was an ally at the time? I think it started before the war. Orwell wrote in 1938 that "today it is almost impossible to get anything printed in favour of Anarchism or 'Trotskyism'," See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homage_to_Catalonia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homage_to_Catalonia