... Germans invaded the Soviet Union in 1941. Stalin joined the Allies - Britain and the United States. After a bloody war, Germany was defeated. Stalin turned the once-promising Russian "Socialist Paradise" into one more dictatorship. George Orwell and other supporters of the Russian Revolution were disillusioned. They wondered how this movement, which had promised to put all people on equal ... ...

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... to his enemies, dangerous to his friends, dangerous to himself. I can think of no man I have ever met who would so quickly and so bitterly eat his heart out in Paradise. He was an aristocrat with all the aristocrat's virtues: loyalty, magnanimity, imagination and pity in the grand manner. Yet he also had the defects of the great man. He exaggerated ... ...

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