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There has also been a great deal of discourse on the possibility that Orwell galvanized his ideas of oppression during his experience, and his subsequent writings in the English press, in Spain.

Orwell was a member of the Workers ' Party of Marxist Unification ( POUM ) militia and suffered suppression and escaped arrest by the Comintern faction working within the Republican Government.

Following his escape he made a strong case for defending the Spanish revolution from the Communists there, and the misinformation in the press at home.

During this period he formed strong ideas about the reportage of events, and their context in his own ideas of imperialism and democracy.