Looks rather new to me! Seriously, it's just one of many eyewitness accounts and I think time has shown he often got the big picture very wrong while his avowed revolutionary fervour re. Spain was at odds with his mild Fabian socialism in the UK:
P.S. That said, While driving through Aragón years ago, I insisted on stopping for coffee in Huesca, something Orwell said in the book he always wanted to do if he ever returned to Spain. He couldn't so I did it for him.
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btw... here's that anti-poum leaflet that the Russians put out.