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Yep, Animal Farm absolutely was an influence on that album

https://www.openculture.com/2017/04/pink-floyd-adapts-orwell...

> Orwell showed the effects of “undemocratic structures” by reducing individuals to animal types, and so does Waters, simplifying the classes further into three (and leaving out humans altogether): the ruling pigs, praetorian and aspiring capitalist dogs, and the sheep, the mindless masses.




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