There is no doubt about Orwell anti-communist views. Animal Farm was based on Joseph Stalin's Russia and many of Orwell's negative view of communism was based on his experience in the Spanish Civil War. In his book, "Homage to Catalonia", Orwell detailed the subversion of the Spanish Republic by Stalin's agents and how Stalin's people attempted to eliminate the independent left. In the town of Catalonia, there was full attempt of putsch resembling the Moscow show trials. Andres Nan, a local leftist leader, was kidnapped, tortured and murdered as part of the civil war between Marxist and the independent left. Orwell himself was on the elimination list complied by the communist even though he was unaware of it. Orwell, who was severely wounded by a fascist bullet, left Spain along with his wife before the order could be carried out.
The siren of communism never tantalized Orwell and this alone showed the man's independence. When others had to experience the horror and drudgery of communism before switching, Orwell never was tempted. He knew at the beginning about Communism's evil.

Orwell 1984 was prescient in another way. He had a general idea of how the world may eventually be organized. In 1984, we see the world split between Oceania, East Asia and Eurasia. Based on some geographic reality, Orwell envisioned a North American led bloc competiting with Europe or Russian lead bloc and an oriental Asian bloc. Today, we are witnessing such a world with an Anglosphere world forming around the United States and including Great Britain as well as Australia and an East Asia bloc led by a resurgent China. The European continent is debating the European Union and the implication that this bloc may yet compete with the United States. This is certainly the vision of some of the French intelligentsia and follows Orwell world of 1984.

Orwell, at heart, was a pessimist. In some way, his vision of darkness resembled those of Whitaker Chambers, the author of Witness and the key witness against Algier Hiss. Chambers truly believed that he joined the losing side when he turned away from communism and went to the right. Orwell's own writing climaxing with 1984 showed a similar foreboding. Orwell's own vision was that in the end, all might be lost. When Orwell reviewed F.A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom, he wrote, "Professor thesis is that Socialism inevitably leads to despotism and that in Germany, the Nazis were able to succeed because the Socialism had already done most of their work for them....By bringing the whole of life under the control of the State, Socialism necessarily gives power to an inner ring of bureaucrats, who in almost every case will be men who want power for its own sake and will stick at nothing in order to retain it.....In the negative part of Professor Hayek's thesis there is a great deal of truth.... That collectivism is not inherently democratic, but on the contrary, gives to a tyrannical minority such powers as the Spanish Inquisitors never dreamed of." Maybe, Orwell believed that he was on the losing side and like Winston Smith in 1984, he could see the bullet aiming for his head.