I could very well be wrong, and maybe he was red. So be it. However, when I read 1984/Animal Farm, I got the real impression he was very much against governments having power. Hence, I concluded he would not be a communist.
wood, you may think that, but from my POV they are the same. Unless you can debunk that, why not hold your tongue?
Communist Russia (CR) - Never baned guns outright, but when Stalin came to power, he started restricting them, and the restrictions kept getting added. Legal gun ownership I would daresay was all but unheard of.
Nazi Germany (NG) - Banned private ownership. If you want to use guns, join the SS.
Modern Day Socialist Britain (SB) - All guns are banned. Replicas get registered.
All three are the same here. Lets move on.
CR - Starved tens of millions.
NG - Holocaust.
SB - Not overtly killing people off, but it does let innocent people die at the hands of criminals, and does nothing to save them. Far as I am concerned, this is murder by disarming and neglecting.
Two are identical, one is close.
CR - Government owns everything.
NG - Government owned, or simply took.
SB - Officially you still have private property.
Two are virtually identical, one is catching up.
CR - Privacy. Funny.
NG - Privacy? Who needs that.
SB - Cameras cameras everywhere...
Looks to me like the three methods are all cut from whole cloth. Communism is a political ideology, and has socialism as an economic system. You cannot have communism without socialism. This alone proves they are similar systems. You can have the socialism minus the true communism, but it won;t be much different, as demonstrated above.