Joseph Stalin was known as the man of steel, so Napoleon should be known as the pig of steel. This book is on the terrors of Joseph Stalin after the Russian Revolution and Lenin's death. George Orwell was capable of representing Joseph Stalin by using the pig Napoleon. If you look closely, everything that Napoleon does in Animal Farm has a real life counterpart in the actions of Stalin. Napoleon, like Stalin, had a lust for power. They both wished to control the people and have them do their every bidding. While they wanted this power, they were both bad oral speakers. Napoleon used the help of squealer (another pig that would deliver all of Napoleons messages). Squealer represented Stalin's personal spokesman Nikolai Bukharin, Bukharin would do the oral work for Stalin like Squealer did for Napoleon. Joseph Stalin used fear as his form of propaganda; he also …show more content…
There, he worked many Russian citizens to their deaths. Much like how Napoleon allowed Boxer to overwork himself and then sent him to the knackers. In the end of Animal Farm Napoleon has squealer erase all of the commandments and put one up to replace the seven, "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others" (Orwell Chapter10 Page 134), that quote explains how Stalin had no limits as to what he was allowed to do. Even the Czar of Russia did not have this much room to conduct whatever he wanted, because he was bound by Russian customs. Stalin was not confined by morals or traditions. He had what he wanted in mind and he got it done; this thought of deserving everything and how no one was his equal was what made him capable to have nothing stand in his way. The secret police maintained the Gulags and arrested (executed) many. Stalin showed that no one was an exception; he wanted to make it clear to countries outside of the U.S.S.R. that the trials were not vindictive and that they were equal and