"In 1946, George Orwell reviewed Soviet novelist Evgeny Zamyatin’s We. The book was written shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution, and influenced Orwell’s work. Orwell quoted the utopia described in Zamyatin’s We: “The guiding principle of the State is that happiness and freedom are incompatible.”
1984 And George Orwell Live Again In Putin’s RussiaOrwell’s message to Russians is that freedom and happiness go together, and dictators lie to promote tyranny over liberty.www.forbes.com