Animal Farm | teaching history with pigs

Illiterate

English - January 17, 2020 06:42 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
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Learn about how the CIA paid for the film version, the links to the Russian Revolution, and how the author (literally) lost his voice. This is a dive into a literary classic, Animal Farm by George Orwell.

Links:

(WATCH): the full 1954 version on YouTube:
http://bit.ly/animalfarm1954

(WATCH): the full 1999 version on YouTube:
http://bit.ly/animalfarm1999film

(READ) the missing preface about censorship:
http://bit.ly/afpreface

(WATCH) China’s ban on Animal Farm in 2018:
http://bit.ly/afchinaban

(READ) about the early Polish influence, Bunt:
http://bit.ly/animalfarmbunt

(READ) the one-to-one parallels to Soviet history:
http://bit.ly/sovietparallelsanimal

(READ) Orwell’s book, “Down and Out in Paris and London”:
http://bit.ly/downoutpdf

(READ) the CIA’s balloon drop of Animal Farm into the Soviet Union:
http://bit.ly/ciaballonsanimalfarm

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