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Not sure if I'd call it plagiarizing, but he did heavily borrow from "We" by yevgeny zamyatin. Which he actually wrote a review of not long before starting with 1984. This Wikipedia section is an interesting read.
Definitely worth reading both and compare what Orwell copied and which original ideas he added.