1903. George Orwell was born

110 years ago, on June 25, 1903, the English writer George Orwell (Eric Blair), the author of the classic anti -utopia "Animal Farm" and "1984", denouncing the practice of Soviet and world communism, was born.

Orwell came to his ideas on the basis of the experience gained in the Civil War in Spain: “From childhood, I knew that newspapers could lie, but only in Spain I saw that they could completely falsify reality. I personally participated in the“ battles ”, in which there was not a single shot and wrote about heroic bloody battles, and I was in real battles, which the press did not say a word, perhaps, she did not say a word. There were no fearless soldiers, wearing with newspapers, and traitors and traitors, praised by them, like the heroes.