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> As for Celia, after a brief first marriage, she was courted by Orwell, who shortly before he published “1984” and succumbed to tuberculosis would send her a list of crypto-communists and “fellow travelers,” people he believed sympathetic to Stalinism

Wait, what ?

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> Celia Kirwan, a close friend of Orwell, who had just started working as Robert Conquest's assistant at the IRD, visited Orwell in March 1949, at a sanatorium where he was being treated for tuberculosis. Orwell wrote a list of names of people he considered sympathetic to Stalinism and therefore unsuitable as writers for the Department, and enclosed it in a letter to Kirwan.

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orwell%27s_list

Thank you for this much needed explanation

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