Interesting comment about Orwell, posted at the Moon of Alabama:
@Posted by: karlof1 | May 20 2020 18:51 utc | 26 That essay is a real shame, an impossible intend of whitewashing and redime Orwell, just another intent on rewritting of history, and try to paint what is black as white. Neo-language This intent could be inscribed along the rescues of Stepan Bandera and the Forest Brothers as new heroes of NATO world in their offensive against reviving socialist ideas. That Orwell did not change even a bit after returning from Burma is proven by the fact that he came to Spain, and strolled around there with the Trotskyites of POUM, to elaborate black lists of communists which then were provided to Franco, at result of which many people was tortured and summarily executed. He, this way, contributed greatly to decimate the resistance in the side of the legitimate republican government, and thus, to help the fascists in their way to power, well supported by the US with arms and fuel and by the air forces of fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. That he finished himself slowly is not but poetic justice, the same case as fascist torturer "Billy El Niño" who ended being finished by the Coronavirus just a week ago. Of course, Troyan Horse in the Spanish new left formation Podemos, such engendre called "Izquierda Anticapitalista", who joined Podemos when they were on the rise, and abandoned the new left formation when they had a worse result in the last elections but were about to grab power, and whose main worry today, in the middle of a pandemic with the economy in tatters, is the differential fact and nuances of the Andalusian language ( whatever so as to deviate attention from the real problems and put sticks in the advance of the left towards power...) still hail Orwell....How not? I detected these impostors in zero coma at the first meetings when Podemos was in formation, they squeked more than a rusty door in a leftist formation, and act like a sect to knock down and eject any person who shows awareness and is critic of their contradictions. "In all countries the Trotskyists gave themselves good names to mask their dirty bandit work. In Spain they are called the Marxist Unification Workers Party (POUM). Did you know that they constitute spy nests in Madrid or Barcelona at Franco's service?”, Ho Chi Minh. https://twitter.com/ciudadfutura/status/1263161311678078981 The unemployed in Andalusia and the hundreds of thousands of solemnly poor must be very concerned about the problems that this lady invents. https://twitter.com/ciudadfutura/status/1263150511412346881 Orwell: Sneak sighting of British secret services in the Cold War (is declassified by MI-5 and documented). Its function: to expose communists. He even betrayed Charles Chaplin, exiled in his native England for FBI persecution. "Referrer". "Always loyal" https://twitter.com/ciudadfutura/status/1262794482963091460
Albert Escusa: Who was George Orwell really? Orwellian myths: from the Spanish Civil War to the Soviet holocaust Posted by: H.Schmatz | May 20 2020 21:40 utc | 33