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One thing that might help is reading A Critical Read of Animal Farm as well as On Orwell. These might help your essay by giving a good analysis of the real themes and personal failures of Orwell as a person.
Holy shit, I really needed something to use to criticize Orwell, because I wanna break his bitter anticommunist ass with facts, thanks man!
No problem, and good luck on your essay!
I will really need luck to survive my classmates lmao
Try to bring sources, and don't try to go too hard. For example, in the critical reading of animal farm, the author writes about how above all it reveals Orwell's aristocratic disdain for the working class. If you want to defend and contextualize the USSR without provoking ire, it's best to highlight Orwell's miserable history as a homophobic, anti-semetic fed, sexual assaulter, and tie that directly to his work. You can also tie in how the Soviet Union at the time was coming out of a chaotic civil war and trying desperately to build up a modern country while heavily sanctioned.