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.

Spoiled, rich kids pretending to be revolutionaries.

Moda, are you too lazy to do the research? Don't just say something without backing it up.