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Stalinist spies, Marxist and useful idiots targeted George Orwell during Spanish civil war. its clear that all neo - stalinists here would like to help Koba turn the beautiful Iberia into Marxist- Asiatic- Tyrannic pig-house
" The papers are documentary evidence that not only Orwell, but also his wife Eileen, were being watched closely. They add fuel to the thesis that Orwell developed in Homage to Catalonia, and later in Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, that Stalin was intent on transforming communism from a social and political ideal into a tyranny headed by a single man,” Tremlett told the Observer. .... Orwell described a “horrible atmosphere” in Barcelona, the product of “fear, suspicion, hatred, censored newspapers, crammed jails, enormous food queues and prowling gangs of armed men”.
The Poum sympathies of another Briton, David Crook, were also under surveillance. But, unknown to communist military intelligence, Crook was, in fact, spying on the Poum on behalf of the Soviet Union’s interior ministry. His hunting grounds included the Independent Labour party offices at Barcelona’s Hotel Falcón and the Hotel Continental, where Eileen and others lived.
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www.theguardian.com
" The papers are documentary evidence that not only Orwell, but also his wife Eileen, were being watched closely. They add fuel to the thesis that Orwell developed in Homage to Catalonia, and later in Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, that Stalin was intent on transforming communism from a social and political ideal into a tyranny headed by a single man,” Tremlett told the Observer. .... Orwell described a “horrible atmosphere” in Barcelona, the product of “fear, suspicion, hatred, censored newspapers, crammed jails, enormous food queues and prowling gangs of armed men”.
The Poum sympathies of another Briton, David Crook, were also under surveillance. But, unknown to communist military intelligence, Crook was, in fact, spying on the Poum on behalf of the Soviet Union’s interior ministry. His hunting grounds included the Independent Labour party offices at Barcelona’s Hotel Falcón and the Hotel Continental, where Eileen and others lived.
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Revealed: Soviet spies targeted George Orwell during Spanish civil war
Newly unearthed files reveal that the author and his wife were under Soviet surveillance while fighting in civil war
www.theguardian.com
