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Communism In Animal Farm

Communism is showed in “Animal Farm” in many of ways for example, some of the ways they’re shown is that the animals start a government where all of the animals are equal. The second way Communism is shown is the animal’s started a government having an idea that it was the best way a government should be ran, and like the Russian Revolution they both ended up being the worst way to run a government. The last way Communism is shown is that they both start off with a leader who had a partner and took power from Snowball (Leon Trotsky) and snowballs partner Napolean (Joseph Stalin) ended up taking control from snowball and started to abuse his power making the higher class better and giving the pigs more power. The

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