This was maybe a high school assignment too. Who were these teachers? I guess when you are writing a course curriculum when Communism and the Cold War is still quite fresh, you want to hammer the people-who-call-each-other-comrade thing as being "bad".
This is a book where the pop culture references have far outlived the popularity of the original work. Everyone knows "big brother", but maybe it is even more fitting that most people don't quite know where it came from.
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