Orwell was unhappy with Soviet Communists due to their liberal collaboration and repression of anarchist Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War
This is most certainly not true. Modern estimates of Soviet repressions of Anarchists in Republican Spain number a total of 20 individuals, there were literally 10 soviet NKVD agents in Spain at its peak. The whole idea of the “Jewish-Bolsheviks” repressing everything and anything in Spain stems from Francoist propaganda and from widespread application of anecdotal evidence of one or two cases such as the assassination of Andreu Nin.
For a more detailed review of my sources on the topic as a Spaniard myself, I wrote a post on my alt account detailing the reality of the Soviet repressions in Spain.
Also, being anti-Soviet in 1949 is extremely suspicious too. The Soviets had just saved Europe from Nazism, regardless of his thoughts about Catalonia if one is antifascist in 1949 one supports the Soviets, period. It’s not until a few years later as you say that anti-Soviet propaganda starts to be widespread in the west out of fear that the revolution will spread to the rest of the capitalist world.
This is most certainly not true. Modern estimates of Soviet repressions of Anarchists in Republican Spain number a total of 20 individuals, there were literally 10 soviet NKVD agents in Spain at its peak. The whole idea of the “Jewish-Bolsheviks” repressing everything and anything in Spain stems from Francoist propaganda and from widespread application of anecdotal evidence of one or two cases such as the assassination of Andreu Nin.
For a more detailed review of my sources on the topic as a Spaniard myself, I wrote a post on my alt account detailing the reality of the Soviet repressions in Spain.
Also, being anti-Soviet in 1949 is extremely suspicious too. The Soviets had just saved Europe from Nazism, regardless of his thoughts about Catalonia if one is antifascist in 1949 one supports the Soviets, period. It’s not until a few years later as you say that anti-Soviet propaganda starts to be widespread in the west out of fear that the revolution will spread to the rest of the capitalist world.