Goodbye to Catalonia?
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The Fascest Cop in Catalonia
Orwell was horrified and disgusted when certain unions and political parties that he supported were attacked by the soviet union. He wrote largely in praise of this sort of anarchical, communistic society that emerged in barcelona during the war. And it was largely these experiences in spain that a turned him deeply against what he saw as theSoviet totalitarian distortion of reality.
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