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Early in life I have noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie. I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been killed. I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and traitors, and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed as heroes of imaginary victories; and I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies and eager intellectuals building emotional superstructures over events that never happened. I saw, in fact, history being written not in terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various “party lines”.

Early in life I have noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie. I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been killed. I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and traitors, and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed as heroes of imaginary victories; and I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies and eager intellectuals building emotional superstructures over events that never happened. I saw, in fact, history being written not in terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various “party lines”.

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He said this in 1943 in his essay "Looking Back on the Spanish War" in reference to the Second Spanish Republic after having fought with marxists against the nationalists. In the same essay he stated the nationalist's version of the war was pure fantasy; that communists were not taking over Spain. Orwell may have criticized the USSR in 1984 and Animal Farm, but he was not one of the good guys and did in fact commune with marxists, and thus most probably (knowingly?) jews. He also claims Britain did not intervene in the Spanish Civil War because Britain was pro-fascism, which is complete fucking bullshit only a blind nigger wouldn't be able to see it. Orwell was a pile of shit.

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/looking-back-on-the-spanish-war/