Orwell’s
Mr Jones – The Farmer
•One man who didn’t
forget Gareth was George Orwell
in Animal Farm, [who based his
Ukrainian famine chapter on Eugene Lyons’
book ‘Assignment in Utopia’, which he reviewed in 1938].
•Remember Lyons: ‘Poor Gareth Jones must have been the most surprised human being alive when the facts he so painstakingly garnered from our mouths
were snowed
under by our denials.”
•Orwell wrote: “the human beings were inventing fresh lies about Animal Farm. Once again it was being put about that all the animals were dying of famine and disease .”
•Orwell also parodied Walter Duranty’s famine denial of; ‘There’s No Starvation, but … Diseases Due to Malnutrition’
•Orwell wrote in AF: Nine [Ukrainian]
hens had died of
coccidiosis’ [A disease
specific to
chickens].
