It's propaganda week at Cracked! Keep calm and read on. You keep hearing people invoke George Orwell when talking about propaganda being evil, but the works of Orwell have actually served as propaganda themselves. As we've told you before, the CIA were big fans of Animal Farm and covertly funded a movie adaptation in 1954. Incidentally, the movie ends quite differently from the book. Rather than the animals being forever trapped by their Boarshevik oppressors, they get help from outside ani