However, he depicted the future that everyone should be afraid of at any time. A lot of things that he described as if happening in 1984 can be observed in the nowadays world. Orwell was convinced that the countries which were going to build the socialism should not try to follow the Soviet Union, but, first of all, be afraid of it.The only mistake George Orwell made in his anti-utopia 1984 was the date. Orwell sharply condemned Western authors, who identified socialism with the Soviet Union, in particular, George Bernard Show. In the essay Why I Write (1946), Orwell pointed out: Every line of the serious work that I had written since 1936 was directed, directly or not, against the totalitarianism and for the democratic socialism as I understand it. And what is more, it was Orwell, who came up with an expression the Cold War.

The pioneer of the anti-utopia is considered to be a Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin, whose novel We influenced on the Orwells works and not less famous Aldous Huxley, the author of Brave New World. The iconic story Animal Farm and the novel 1984 are his brightest works written in the anti-utopian genre that flourished in the 20th century.

Eric Arthur Blair, who is more famous all around the world under his pen-name George Orwell, was born more than one hundred years ago, on 25 June 1903 in the town Motihari, British India in a family of an employee of the Opium Department of the Indian Civil Service.

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