Chad Asimov, Virgin Orwell

" Orwell not only foresaw the communist victory (he saw that victory everywhere, in fact) but also foresaw that Russia and China would not form a monolithic bloc but would be deadly enemies. There, his own experience as a Leftist sectarian may have helped him. He had no Rightist superstitions concerning Leftists as unified and indistinguishable villains. He knew they would fight each other as fiercely over the most trifling points of doctrine as would the most pious of Christians."

Sometimes you gotta hand it to em lmao

[Orwell's] enemy was Stalin, and at the time that 1984 was published, Stalin had ruled the Soviet Union in a ribbreaking bear hug for twenty-five years, had survived a terrible war in which his nation suffered enormous losses and yet was now stronger than ever.

Beat me to it.

I'm so glad I was able to call out this book being shit way back when I read it in High School. The entire dystopian genre is kinda shit, come to think of it.

The only good dystopian novel is Lord of the Flies, change my mind.