The American military authorities in Europe, rounded up all the copies
of George Orwell's novella Animal Farm that they could find and turned them
over to the Red Army to be burned.
George Orwell was the first to use the phrase 'The Cold War' in print. Eastern Europe had the appearance of a "New Class" system with gross privileges for the ruling elite and grinding mediocrity of existence for the majority. The Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev had a meeting with Zhou Enlai just before the Sino-Soviet split. He told the Chinaman,
"I am the son of coal miners and you are the son of feudal mandarins. We have nothing in common." "Perhaps we do", murmured his Chinese antagonist. "What?" blustered Khrushchev. Zhou responded, "We are both traitors to our class " (Christopher Hitchens - Arguably)
The CIA secretly bought the film rights to Animal Farm and altered the ending of the film so that the pigs, who represent the communists, were overthrown by the other animals on the farm.
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