Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Kumukira kwemhuka kurwisana naFarmer Jones ndiko kufanana kwaOrwell neOctober 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. "Hondo yeCowshed" yakanzi inomiririra kupindirwa kweSoviet Russia neAllied muna 1918, uye kukundwa kwevaWhite Russian muHondo yeVanhu veRussia. Kukura kwehumba kunoratidza kukura kwehurumende yaStalin muUSSR, sezvo kumuka kwaNapoleon somutungamiriri oga wepapurazi kunoratidza kumuka kwaStalin. Kugoverwa kwemukaka namaapuro nenguruve nokuda kwokushandisa kwavo vamene, "chinhu chinoshandura nhau" seizvo Orwell akaidana mutsamba kuna Dwight Macdonald, kunomira somuenzanisiro wokupwanywa kwokumukira kwapadivi reruboshwe kwa1921 Kronstadt
kurwisa vaBolshevik, uye nhamburiko dzakaoma dzemhuka dzokuvaka chigayo chomhepo dzinoratidzira Zvirongwa Zvemakore Mashanu zvakasiyana-siyana. Mbwanana dzaidzorwa naNapoleon dzakafanana nokurerwa kwemapurisa akavanzika muchimiro chaStalin, uye kubata kwenguruve dzimwe mhuka papurazi kunoyeuchidza kutyisa kwemukati kwakatarisana navanhu muma1930. Muchitsauko chechinomwe, apo mhuka dzinoreurura mhosva dzadzo dzisina kuvapo uye dzinourawa, Orwell anotaura zvakananga nezvokuchenesa, kureurura uye kutongwa kwokuratidzira kwokupera kwema1930. Izvi zvakaita kuti Orwell ave nechokwadi chokuti kuchinja kwevaBolshevik kwakanga kwashata uye kuti hurongwa hweSoviet hwakanga hwaora.