Kolgosp tvarin. Kazka. [Animal Farm. Fairy tale]. In Ukrainian language. by Orwell George - 1947

I.Cherniatins'kii – translation from English.

M. Grigoriiv - covers.

N.p. [Neu-Ulm], Prometei, N.d. [1947], 8vo, 91 pp., portrait, in original illustrated wrappers, in good condition, wears to top and bottom of spine, slightly spotted to several pages.

First translation of the novel from English with special foreword by G. Orwell. Orwell partially paid the costs of printing.

One of the rarest and important edition published in DP camp.

Initially Orwell planned the novel as satire on English society. Further the novel began to be considered as satire on Stalin society. In the title of the book the translator consciously used the word "колгосп" (collective farm) and referring the reader directly to the Soviet system.

The important part of the foreword by G. Orwell is naming of the repression in USSR in 30s as a Great Purges: "In 1936 I got married. In almost the same week the civil war broke out in Spain. My wife and I both wanted to go to Spain and fight for the Spanish Government. … In Spain I spent almost six months on the Aragon front until, at Huesca, a Fascist sniper shot me through the throat. …Through a series of accidents I joined not the International Brigade like the majority of foreigners, but the POUM militia — i.e. the Spanish Trotskyists. So in the middle of 1937, when the Communists gained control (or partial control) of the Spanish Government and began to hunt down the Trotskyists, we both found ourselves amongst the victims. We were very lucky to get out of Spain alive, and not even to have been arrested once. Many of our friends were shot, and others spent a long time in prison or simply disappeared. These man-hunts in Spain went on at the same time as the great purges in the USSR and were a sort of supplement to them".

Displaced persons camps established after World War II in Germany, Austria and Italy, primarily for people who forced to change their country of living during the war. In the period 1945-1951 thousands of books printed in DP camps in different East European languages.

There is no exact information about amount of copies published, figuers varies from 3.500 to 2.000.