Isn't it ironic that

[Jester]

That orwell was critical towards the USSR was because he was againts totalitarianism, not because he was an anti-communist.

That would be a very fine distinction for Orwell. During his life, he was against the orthodox Communist party line, as embodied by any of Leninism, Stalinism, COMINTERN, the USSR, or any such thing. He was not a member of any Marxist political party. He insistently described himself not as a Communist, or a Marxist, but as a Socialist, also insisting on adding Democratic to the front as well. His formative political experience, that is, his time in the Spanish Civil War, was fought with the anarchists, and he was horrified by the repression, violence, and murder that the Soviets wrought amongst their supposed allies. By the time of his death early in 1950, there was exactly one type of Communism that held any kind of international sway: Stalinism.

So, if your idea is that he was not anti-Communist because he was friendly with (but not affiliated with) Trotskyites and other castoffs from the 3rd International model of Communism, then fine. But, realistically speaking, my statement stands: he was an ardent anti-Communist.

-Jester