The allegorical satire of the Soviet Union meant that the book was banned in the USSR until the 1980s, but even before the book was published it was rejected several times by UK businesses due to the wartime alliance between the UK and the Soviet Union. It has also been banned in the UAE because of talking pigs which goes against Islamic values. The story was also restricted or banned in East Germany and Czechoslovakia during the Cold War.
The allegorical satire of the Soviet Union meant that the book was banned in the USSR until the 1980s, but even before the book was published it was rejected several times by UK businesses due to the wartime alliance between the UK and the Soviet Union. It has also been banned in the UAE because of talking pigs which goes against Islamic values. The story was also restricted or banned in East Germany and Czechoslovakia during the Cold War.