You might be interested in the movie Mr. Jones - I recently watched it on Prime: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Jones_(2019_film) It was said this was the inspiration for writing Animal Farm. A character playing Orwell stars briefly throughout the movie.
"Then, upon my discovery that Orwell had in his single word of 'coccidiosis', describing the explanation for his (Ukrainian) hens mortality due to disease, I was convinced that he was specifically alluding to Stalinist apologist, Walter Duranty's unforgivable New York Times 1933; "Russians Hungry, But Not Starving" article, in which he specifically denigrated Gareth Jones, but also stated that any peasant deaths were actually due to diseases from malnutrition. This was when I first became aware that Orwell could not have been able to have written his 'famine' section of his novel, without specific knowledge of Gareth Jones. I then actually found Gareth being alluded to as a 'human being'! Orwell wrote: "Starvation seemed to stare them in the face. It was vitally necessary to conceal this fact from the outside world. Emboldened by the collapse of the windmill, 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...""
"In an earlier email dated 15th January 2004, Ms Jura wrote:
“...it struck me that Orwell HAD mentioned Gareth Jones after all in the character of Farmer Jones in Animal Farm!! Just like how the Communists had killed the Tsar and all his family, so too had the Communists just as ruthlessly and cruelly killed Gareth Jones. And so Orwell gave the Tsar character the name of Jones.”"
"While watching the movie, I became somewhat bewildered by several cameos presenting George Orwell writing his Animal Farm. The film seems to indicate that Orwell met with Gareth Jones and that his Animal Farm was inspired by Jones’s work. To my knowledge Jones and Orwell never met, though this fact does not hinder the possibility of Orwell having read his articles and that the Animal Farm has had a crucial role in Ukrainian politics."
You might be interested in the movie Mr. Jones - I recently watched it on Prime: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Jones_(2019_film) It was said this was the inspiration for writing Animal Farm. A character playing Orwell stars briefly throughout the movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtWSyFNT9qY
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/mr-jones-film-exposes-the-fake-news-campaign-behind-stalins-ukrainian-genocide/
Also, it wasn't Voltaire that said that, but Evelyn Beatrice Hall in 1906 (I probably would have done the same, though :)
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/06/01/defend-say/#google_vignette
"It was said this was the inspiration for writing Animal Farm. " -- what?
Orwell's inspiration was his experience in Spain, no?
Spain and what he read in the newspapers, apparently from Walter Duranty and Gareth Jones regarding the Holodomor: https://www.garethjones.org/soviet_articles/farmer_jones.htm but he used words found only in those articles:
"Then, upon my discovery that Orwell had in his single word of 'coccidiosis', describing the explanation for his (Ukrainian) hens mortality due to disease, I was convinced that he was specifically alluding to Stalinist apologist, Walter Duranty's unforgivable New York Times 1933; "Russians Hungry, But Not Starving" article, in which he specifically denigrated Gareth Jones, but also stated that any peasant deaths were actually due to diseases from malnutrition. This was when I first became aware that Orwell could not have been able to have written his 'famine' section of his novel, without specific knowledge of Gareth Jones. I then actually found Gareth being alluded to as a 'human being'! Orwell wrote: "Starvation seemed to stare them in the face. It was vitally necessary to conceal this fact from the outside world. Emboldened by the collapse of the windmill, 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...""
"In an earlier email dated 15th January 2004, Ms Jura wrote:
“...it struck me that Orwell HAD mentioned Gareth Jones after all in the character of Farmer Jones in Animal Farm!! Just like how the Communists had killed the Tsar and all his family, so too had the Communists just as ruthlessly and cruelly killed Gareth Jones. And so Orwell gave the Tsar character the name of Jones.”"
"While watching the movie, I became somewhat bewildered by several cameos presenting George Orwell writing his Animal Farm. The film seems to indicate that Orwell met with Gareth Jones and that his Animal Farm was inspired by Jones’s work. To my knowledge Jones and Orwell never met, though this fact does not hinder the possibility of Orwell having read his articles and that the Animal Farm has had a crucial role in Ukrainian politics."
https://www.globalissues.org/news/2022/06/03/31029
Good research, thanks.
It’s crystal clear that Snowball is Trotsky. And he definitely was in touch with Ukrainians after the book came out.