George Orwell- plot stealer?

Here, Guardian columnist Paul Owen discusses whether it is important that Orwell stole the plot of 1984 from Russian author Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, a book he reviewed three years before publishing his twentieth-century classic, or whether it is more important he brought it to a culture that it would impact (or at least be able to freely publish it).

Click on the headline of this story to take you to the article. Interesting stuff.