How Did George Orwell's Frank Denunciation Of Totalitarianism

George Orwell’s frank denunciation of totalitarianism, and by association Russian communism, is highlighted throughout his classic novel Animal Farm; he wrote his “fairy story” in a time where many would not dare to criticize the U.S.S.R for fear of “being accused of playing dupe to the Nazis.” The moral indignation that fueled Orwell’s writing was one that was nurtured through his experiences in Spain, where he fought for a government that was seemingly looking out for the people, only to find out that the political arena in 1937 Spain was not controlled by the populace, but by dictators in far-away nations. Orwell’s own offensive experience in Spain with the Stalinist purges removed the “dangerously romantic view of the Russian Revolution” that seemed to blind the Western world, and his novel was written to expel the “blinders” of political innocence put on by many “well-meaning, decent people in Western Europe”, and to eliminate the unrealistic expectations of Utopia from the minds of socialists around the world. Writing that the U.S.S.R. was nowhere near the ideal communist country described by Lenin and Marx, Orwell believed that it had instead become, under Stalin, a “hierarchical society in which the rulers [had] no more reason to give up their power than any other ruling class”.

Thus, Orwell was provoked to pen his scathing criticism of the tyranny in undemocratic regimes not only by the horrors committed by the ruling totalitarian government, but by his “despair for all deluded people who served it