He was writing in highly fictionalized form about the Soviet Union and other communist shitholes in 1948. Get it? They used to teach this with the book in middle school. It wasn't prescient. It was already happening and he observed it.
100% this is correct. It was, of course, highly fictionalized.
If you want to read the gulag archipelago or the little black book on communism, you will see true stories of what was happening then in Russia. It's not as pretty as 1984. It will make you puke.
He was writing in highly fictionalized form about the Soviet Union and other communist shitholes in 1948. Get it? They used to teach this with the book in middle school. It wasn't prescient. It was already happening and he observed it.
100% this is correct. It was, of course, highly fictionalized.
If you want to read the gulag archipelago or the little black book on communism, you will see true stories of what was happening then in Russia. It's not as pretty as 1984. It will make you puke.
Have done and yes, not for those with more delicate sensibilities. But worth doing nonetheless.
I just ordered it last week. Not looking forward to reading it at all, and I've been putting it off, but I feel I must.