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1954 Animal Farm

Here is the video of the 1954 animated movie Animal Farm, based on the book by George Orwell.

Animal Farm is a dystopian novella in the form of an allegory by George Orwell. Published in England on 17 August 1945, the book reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era before World War II. Orwell, a democratic socialist^[1] and a member of the Independent Labour Party for many years, was a critic of Joseph Stalin and was suspicious of Moscow-directed Stalinism after his experiences with the NKVD during the Spanish Civil War. In a letter to Yvonne Davet, Orwell described Animal Farm as his novel "contre Stalin".^[2]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZldlyeR8DU

"The novel addresses not only the corruption of the revolution by its leaders but also how wickedness, indifference, ignorance, greed and myopia destroy any possibility of a Utopia. While this novel portrays corrupt
leadership as the flaw in revolution (and not the act of revolution
itself), it also shows how potential ignorance and indifference to
problems within a revolution could allow horrors to happen if smooth
transition to a people's government isn't satisfied."

I have read the book before, but never actually saw an animated adaptation of it. For anyone else interested, now you know where you can find it.

Tags: 1954, animal, communism, farm, george, orwell, stalinism

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Comment by Larry on February 6, 2010 at 12:29pm: Thanks for posting this Hayen. I'm a big fan of Orwell. His writings were warnings to those of us on the political Left of the dangers of Bureaucratic Collectivism. He once wrote, "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it."