Word: zilliacus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However, it is far from clear that Orwell would not have enlisted in the cultural cold war, at least at the outset. The evidence is maddeningly contradictory. Orwell engaged in a little red-baiting feud with Konni Zilliacus, a Labour MP, whom he called a "crypto-Communist," a follower of the Soviet line who was, therefore, an enemy of democracy; at the same time, he refused to support a protest against Soviet actions in Eastern Europe because it did not also protest British actions in Greece. In an attack on Zilliacus, he wrote, "the only big political questions...