Hoooooly shit. Newfound respect for Orwell. I read and finished Animal Farms and that man had balls. The only reason why I understood the parallelism between Soviet Russia and the book was because we have history textbooks condensing the Bolshevik Revolution, Trotsky's reign, and Stalin's purges. However, for a man to be living in the midst of it and writing about it with startling accuracy, unreal.