In the book, Animal Farm written by George Orwell is about how animals are rebelling against an important cause to them, animalism. Their leader, Napoleon, is a controlling pig that made himself the “leader” of the farm and what he says is how it goes like in the Russian Revolution. Orwell said, “if the other [people] had the sense to put their food down then it would be all right.” Like Mao Zedong, Napoleon and Joseph Stalin, who are all very similar, did not acknowledge or accept negativity from the animals they only accepted suitable words and worthy ideas. Along with Animal Farm, some of the people treasured the leader and other individuals loathed him. Mao Zedong is similar to Napoleon in Animal Farm because they were both very controlling and had little free speech.
A Chinese leader, Mao Zedong was elected in 1949 chairman of China’s government until he died from a long illness in 1976. When Mao Zedong was in power he caused a lot of conflicts between the people that lived in China. Mao Zedong had some respectable morals to him, such as how he wanted to double the amount of people at schools in
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Napoleon could control all of the animals with the words he spoke after the battle, some animals would say, “ If Comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right”(40), or “Napoleon is always right”(40). Napoleon told all of the animals to go around saying that to make him even more famous. Mao Zedong did this too by letting the people of China say good things about him and spreading it on through a process he called “Hundred Followers Campaign”. Both dictators let people have free speech only if it was to let them say acceptable things about their leader. Another thing is that the cult of personality grew to immeasurable proportions with Mao Zedong and Napoleon as