Union des républiques socialistes animales.
‘Animal Farm’: What Orwell Really Meant by George Orwell | The New York Review of Books
▻http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/jul/11/animal-farm-what-orwell-really-meant
When Yvonne Davet wrote to Orwell on September 6, 1946, she told him that the title initially chosen for the French translation of Animal Farm was to be URSA—Union des Républiques Socialistes Animales (=URSA, the Bear) but it was changed “to avoid offending the Stalinists too much, which I think is a pity.”