To be fair, slavery is part of African culture and has been for millennia.

Yes, success if you are the political class with all the power.

Orwell said the novel was primarily about totalitarianism as he saw it in Nazi Germany and Stalin's USSR, and his experience in the Spanish Civil War where Soviet-backed communists were suppressing the truth. The BBC experience was one ingredient, not the basis.

Their goal is long lines waiting for bread.

Let them try to take it.