GCSE English Literature · key term

Tehran Conference

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The 1943 wartime meeting between Stalin and Western leaders Roosevelt and Churchill. The final gathering of pigs and farmers echoes this apparent cooperation between the Soviet Union and the West.

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Paper 1

The gathering echoes the Tehran Conference of 1943, when Stalin met Western leaders Roosevelt and Churchill during the Second World War. Orwell treats apparent cooperation sceptically: rulers with different political identities can still recognise shared interests in power and control.
Revise: Chapters 9 and 10

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