Four Legs Bad In Russia

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“Four legs good, Two legs bad.” (P. 134) This means that animals are good, but humans and human-like creatures are better. It is not a full sentence, but it has a large amount of meaning. It explains how much the pigs are controlling the farm.

This is said by the sheep, who put down any argument about the pigs turning into humans, and explain that if you walk on two legs, you are amazing. This shows that the sheep are the messengers or the hired help of the pigs.

The quote says that communist Russia was highly corrupt, and when everybody was working, the leaders were just sitting there doing nothing.They said it probably because they were working for napoleon and he changed his rule. Historically, this explains much of the famine in

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