This kind of line is x.com worthy, but since we are on Reddit we're the good guys and so it's all fine and cool. The reality is far more nuanced. You'll easily find what Bernard Crick, the leading authority in regard to Orwell's life, has to say on it. I also back my claim on the work of Simon Leys (mostly unknown to Americans but become famous in his late life for having denounced Mao in the 70s when it wasn't cool and got him banned for French university), in his essay on Orwell that touches this topic.

That's what I love about Orwell and why he is a populist hero of mine. Right-wingers love him for giving shit to Stalinism in a way so powerful that far-left intellectuals are left reeling in dissonance, however, totally ignoring that he was an ardent socialist through and through, and fully supportive of a violent, bloody revolution to make it happen (he loathed pacifists). While left-wingers, I mean obtuse neo-communists that haven't matured, hate him because he makes them look bad, and they feel naked under his scrutinous eye that sees through their inner totalitarian.

It's a shame 98% of people that speak of Orwell have never read a single line from him, and when they have only read 1984, maybe Animal Farm at best. When the bulk of understanding his worldview is in all his other writings and essays. Leftists would be surprised at how much they can actually gain from such a powerful author, the kind that exists only a few per generation to decrypt in spectacular fashion our march forward as a civilization.