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So George, any other particular grievances you may have with any other groups during 1943-1944? Is there any other country getting on your nerves, causing you to hate it? Just any global power that may be doing things that would cause you, an author, to spend a year writing about it?
"I should like to put it on record that I have never been able to dislike Hitler. Ever since he came to power—till then, like nearly everyone, I had been deceived into thinking that he did not matter—I have reflected that I would certainly kill him if I could get within reach of him, but that I could feel no personal animosity." - Orwell 1940 https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600051h.html
why would he write about his besties the germans whom Churchill also held in high regard?
Orwell had dogshit politics but he wasn't a Nazi. For all his faults he did literally go to Spain to shoot them.