The Kgb's Function Of The Dog In The Soviet Union

The slaughterers, the pig’s companions, and worst of all the animals’ greatest threat; also known as the dogs are a great example of the KGB in the Soviet Union. The KGB was like the secret keeping bodyguards of Russia, specifically Stalin. The KGB’s functions and roles of the Soviet Union are greatly compared to the dogs in the book Animal Farm by George Orwell.

The KGB strengthened the Soviet Union by their affairs with many other countries and their amount of secrets kept. The Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti, also known as the KGB or the Committee for State Security maintained the surveillance of the Soviet Union between the years 1954 to 1991. They had the same function as the czarist police, to do “ foreign and domestic espionage;

Just like how the dogs in Animal Farm guarded Napoleon in public or at least stood by his side, the KGB did the same to the Communist Party. For example right before many animals got slaughtered for being following Snowball “ Napoleon emerged from the farm house wearing both his medals… with his nine dogs frisking round him and uttering growls that sent shivers down all the animal’s spines “(Orwell 82). This proves to the readers how the roles of the dogs are very similar to KGB roles. But they weren’t only bodyguards to the pigs, without these dogs the pigs most likely wouldn’t have been as successful, the pigs even knew that themselves. A perfect example of this is when the dogs attacked Boxer, and he won looking at Napoleon “… to know whether he should crush the dog to death or let it go. Napoleon appeared to change countenance, and sharply ordered Boxer to let the dog go…”(Orwell 83). This proves to the readers how devoted and relying Napoleon is to the dogs especially when he commands sharply to Boxer. The roles of the KGB are very similar to the dogs of Animal Farm, that there could be no other character in the book to take their place