Propaganda In Joseph Stalin Animal Farm

George Orwell, the author of Animal Farm, was born Eric Arthur Blair. He tried, but failed, to live up to his father’s high educational standards, landing Orwell in his home country of India, stuck at the lower class, working as a police officer. The way he and others were treated by their rulers, and the way his comrades reacted to this treatment made him hate the very law he enforced. “ I was stuck between my hatred of of the empire I served, and the evil-spirited little beasts who tried to make my job impossible” “(George Orwell Biography)”. He bounced from job to job, working all over Europe. At one point he served as a soldier, and when he came home his health was in decline. In 1943, he finished the book that gave him his reputation

Stalin had no concern for the country he now ruled, he only valued power. Like Napoleon, he only kept a grip on his rule through means of terror. This terror factor was overseen by the KGB, a secret police force who’s equivalent in Animal Farm are Napoleon’s guard dogs. The propaganda that Stalin employed to keep his power was represented in the novel as the pig Squealer who, as his name implies, was able to propose all of Napoleon’s disturbing actions in an appealing manner, often using the excuse ‘Surely, comrades you would not want to see Jones back!’ Some of Stalin’s most infamous actions are mirrored in the novel as well. Some of these actions include his Five Year Plan for raising the bar for Russian manufacturing, industry, and agriculture, which caused the Russian lower and middle class to suffer, and the creation of the Order of Lenin, which was the highest civilian decoration, and which Stalin immediately bestowed on himself. The Five Year Plan was reenacted in Napoleon’s plan for the windmill, and the Order of Lenin imitates Napoleon’s creating the Order of the Green

For example, Fredrick, the owner of the neighboring farm, resembles Adolf Hitler, who was an ally of Stalin, but quickly found this friendship ruined, just as Fredrick is a friend to Animal Farm, but whose intentions are revealed in the fake banknotes. The gruesome confessions and executions of various animals is similar to the trials that Stalin held to rid himself of opposition. The card game at the book’s end can be found to resemble the Tehran Conference where Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Franklin Roosevelt met to try to find common ground in order to make lasting peace. Orwell makes fun of this peace by having both Pilkington, a fellow farmer, and Napoleon, who had just concluded their praise and toast to each other, are found to have been cheating in the