How Is Animal Farm Related To The Russian Revolution

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Animal farm is fairytale about a farmer treating his animals badly. When an animal decides that they should change the way things work. The animals should be in control. They finally won over the farm and things were good for a while. Then it just seemed to be the same way it was before. The animal farm story is just a very good simile to the Russian Revolution. Each animal represent a person or a group that was active during the revolution. Also in the book Animalism is like Communism. Animal Farm is a fairy tale, revolving of the class differences, that were once set in England dealing with the events that potentially lead up to and after the Russian Revolution of 1917.
The pigs were above all the other animals, same as how Trotsky and Stalin were leaders and above the others. They caused a tyranny every time they wanted to do something. The pigs had to change the commandments every time they wanted to try something new. They maltreated their power and also treated the others around them badly. The animals, along with the people during the revolution, were full of gullibility. They always believed that whatever the leader wanted to change
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The commandments stated that all humans are bad and that animals should not do anything that a human does. The animals had a song to help them look forward, the song was known as “The Beast of England.” This song was eventually abolished and any animal that sang the song would be considered a traitor or trying to rebel against the pigs now. The animals had many confinements that they had to go by. If any animal had a cynical remark they would get degraded by the pigs and punished. The pigs said that the hens could keep their eggs, but once the farm needed money they were perfectly okay to infanticide them. The pigs always went back on their word and when you actually looked at the situation one could tell that absolutely nothing had changed from

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