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But Stalin did not see all this 1925, or even in 1945, when in a casual conversation with other world leaders, he was told of the story then about to be published.

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... from a distance [Churchill] watched President Truman tell Marshal Stalin of the great event that was to take place the following month: the latest triumph of Western genius, the masterpiece that was destined so profoundly to affect the history of the world.

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According to President Truman, he did not even ask a single question.

What Marshal Stalin was being told about was not, though as a matter of mere chronological chance it could have been, the imminent publication of a little book called Animal Farm, which appeared on the bookstalls in the same month in which the atomic bomb hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki.