“Propaganda is to a Democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state,” quote by Noam Chomsky. The dictionary definition of propaganda is “information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, ect.” The book Animal Farm is indirectly based on the Russian Revolution. In the following, there will be propaganda from the past, examples of propaganda in Animal Farm, and how the two relate. First, propaganda from the past people have experienced. In the past, during the Bolshevik/Russian Revolution, the most popular form of propaganda was to speak fondly of their leader. Many posters showed pictures of Vladimir Lenin speaking to crowds. These posters and others similar to
