Whir u lived briefly a communist regime before most people had in europe. He'd he'd seen what the communist borty was like and how it behaved when it was in the saddle, when it thought it was on the winning side. And for the rest of his life, which was to consist of another decade and a bit, he devoted himself to combating the prevalent illusion among intellectuals that communism was the future. Whir U spent desperately ill, fighting culosis, roceeded the publishing of a lot of very important anti communist essays,. fur, the two great classic novels, animal farm and, as he's dying, 19 84.