@tony
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I think in the book “Animal Farm”, the author George Orwell wanted to satirize communism in Russia and point out that one day it will fail to achieve its goal of equality. Here are my reasons.
First, in the book, “animalism” is like communism in the reality. Old Major the old pig, who reflected Karl Marx in the real world, founded animalism. Its main content is about the overthrown of the villainous human race, the equality between animals, and that resources belong to the community. This was really like communism which was founded by Karl Marx. Then after Jones was overthrown, there came two pigs, Napoleon and Snowball, fighting for power. At last, Napoleon won. This reflected the fight between Stalin and Trotsky, which Stalin won. Then the pigs, reflecting the leaders of the Soviet Union, began to gain power and weaken the power of other animals, which is indeed similar to what happened after Stalin began leading the country. The pigs gained power by revising the seven commandments, which were the main idea of animalism, as well as using violence. Along with gaining power, the pigs also began a cold war with the neighboring farms, Foxwood and Pinchfield. Pinchfield farm was Germany in reality, while Foxwood was the US and the UK. The cold relationship between the farms was similar to the cold war in reality between the US and the Soviet Union. Then in the story, there came the peace and friendship between the farms, and in reality, the dissolve of the Soviet Union, which marks the transition of Russia from Communism to capitalism.
Although George Orwell died before the dissolve of the Soviet Union, the book sort of predicted it. The book pointed out that although communism (or animalism in the book) was a good idea, it will fail anyway for the thirst of power in people (the pigs), and the challenges from the other countries (farms). Another thing it reflected is that the leaders of the Soviet Union (the pigs) were just using the ideas of communism (animalism) to gain power and money while letting the people ( the other animals) work hard in bad conditions.
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