Joseph Stalin
Stalin was born on 18 December 1879, in Gori, Georgia and died on 5 March 1953 in Kuntsevo. He was a cobbler and Stalin grew up in modest circumstances. He studied at a theological seminary, where he began to learn Marxist literature. He never graduated, instead he spent his time on revolutionary movements against the Russian monarchy. He was arrested a few times and exiled to Serbia. He wanted a communist government, with him as the leader; he became the dictator of Soviet Union by the late 1920s.
Stalin promoted collectivization; he wanted to take the lands away from profiting farmers because private property is against the government and socialism. However, many peasants hated this idea, they burned their crops and killed their animals instead of handing them to the state. Stalin kept trying to take away the farms but he failed. When there was a famine, he blamed the farmers and killed many of them after sending them into the prison.
Stalin promoted collectivization; he wanted to take the lands away from profiting farmers because private property is against the government and socialism. However, many peasants hated this idea, they burned their crops and killed their animals instead of handing them to the state. Stalin kept trying to take away the farms but he failed. When there was a famine, he blamed the farmers and killed many of them after sending them into the prison.
Stalin is related to Napoleon in the novel Animal Farm, who is the leader of the farm. The reason why they are related is because the personality of Napoleon is quite similar to Stalin because they are both dictators and they both have opposing rivals that they wanted to kill. After Old Major’s death, which in turn symbolises Lenin's death, Stalin and Napoleon gathered support and kill all the people who went against them. In the novel, Napoleon killed all the chickens because they didn't want to give them anymore eggs. This is to symbolise what Stalin did in the past when he killed the farmers who would not give up their farms.
Orwell represented Stalin this way as Napoleon’s character and Stalin's character is strongly related. It is quite clear that they were similar when we know the story is criticising Soviet Union. Other than that, pig can also represent the idea of greed that help the reader understand Stalin’s personality which always took advantage of other people. Orwell used Napoleon as a pig to represent Stalin successfully, the characteristic of Napoleon is perfectly connected to Stalin’s and the events that happened when they became the leader are identical.
Orwell represented Stalin this way as Napoleon’s character and Stalin's character is strongly related. It is quite clear that they were similar when we know the story is criticising Soviet Union. Other than that, pig can also represent the idea of greed that help the reader understand Stalin’s personality which always took advantage of other people. Orwell used Napoleon as a pig to represent Stalin successfully, the characteristic of Napoleon is perfectly connected to Stalin’s and the events that happened when they became the leader are identical.