Was George Orwell’s ‘1984’ Banned in the United States and the USSR for Conflicting Reasons?

Was George Orwell’s ‘1984’ Banned in the United States and the USSR for Conflicting Reasons?. On September 2 2021, a Facebook post featured an image suggesting that George Orwell’s 1984 was banned in the United States for pro-communist sentiments, but that it was also banned in the USSR for anti-communist sentiments.. A screenshot from Tumblr showed a bookstore’s shelf with a placard for “Freedom to Read Week” (an annual event in Canada), denoting a particular book as having been “challenged,” “seized,” “banned,” or “burned.”.