Zvířecí statek – Orwell George (2021)

THE EXHIBITION PIG MAYOR, the pride of Mr. Jonáš's farm, will offer the exploited animals an enticing solution at the twilight of its blessed life. All it takes is to throw off the shackles and drive out the primal source of all oppression: the human, who until now has appropriated the fruits of their toil. The uprising on the backward homestead will not take long to manifest. However, since every society – including animal self-governance – needs order, the leading role will be taken by Mayor's pig comrades. Determination, rules, dreams, and the unbreakable unity of the revolutionaries will begin to crumble the moment a treacherous internal enemy attacks alongside human pests. Soon, demagoguery, hunger, terror, and violence will reign here... The new Czech translation of the allegory about the collapse of the ideas of the Bolshevik revolution is aimed at generations that have already been liberated from the communist delusion of 'bright tomorrows.' The greatest critic of totalitarian regimes of the 20th century, inspired by the atrocities of Stalin's Great Terror, warned Europe that fairy tales about egalitarianism should not be looked up to. The zealous reformers, who after the war – Orwell's book was published in 1945 – swarmed everywhere, forget our millennia-old disputes and natural tendencies towards wickedness. And so the original oppression is replaced by another and...