• Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    It was banned in both the Soviet Union and the US.
    In the Soviet Union it was banned for being anti-communist.
    In the US it was banned for being communist.

        • fxomt@lemm.ee
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          19 minutes ago

          lmao, yeah thats why i love his books.

          its crazy to me how people will read it and not realize the main point was anti authoritarianism/totalitarianism, and think it was about socialism despite orwell himself being a democratic socialist. Most be up in the list of most misinterpreted writers