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| 1945 |
| | | In George Orwell's fable Animal Farm a ruthless pig, Napoleon, controls the farmyard using the techniques of Stalin | |
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| 1945 |
| | | Richard Wright publishes Black Boy, an account of his early life in Mississippi and then Chicago | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Sergei Eisenstein completes Part 2 of his intended epic film trilogy Ivan the Terrible | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Sadler's Wells Ballet moves to the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden (and is known from 1956 as the Royal Ballet) | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Perón, with the orchestrated support of gangs of thugs, is elected president of Argentina | |
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| 1946 |
| | | The takeover of the Bank of England launches an extensive programme of nationalization by the Attlee government | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Eudora Welty sets her novel Delta Wedding in a contemporary southern plantation | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Howard Hawks directs Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in The Big Sleep | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Syria becomes fully independent with the withdrawal of French forces | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Aung San's party, the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League, wins a landslide victory in the Burmese election | |
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