In Animal Farm farmer Jones, who represents Tsar Nicholas II, was not feeding his farm animals. Old Major shared his dream of Animalism. Old Major is based on Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin. Marx came up with the idea of communism which was brought forth by Lenin. Like Lenin, Old major died before the revolution. The revolution in Animal Farm was led by Snowball, Leon Trotsky, and Napoleon, Joseph Stalin. After the revolution the pigs assumed power and to legitimize themselves they made the Battle of Bullshead a holiday and would have the animals sing “Beasts of England.” The Russian comparison was making the October Revolution a holiday and had the song “Anthem for the Soviet Republic.” In both holidays the animals or people were encouraged to participate. Snowball was scapegoated, blamed for the farm’s problems and chased off the farm by Napoleon’s dogs. This event represents the remaining Bolsheviks being exiled or executed by Stalinists. Napoleon had plans of improvement in order to prove his usefulness which was stealing Snowball’s windmill claiming that Snowball stole it from Napoleon, but poor workmanship caused it to fail. Napoleon blamed Snowball for that, but it was really the wind. The fall of the windmill’s Russian equivalent is Stalin’s 5 year plan to mechanize Russia which also failed due to the …show more content…
The trouble that caused Hitler to rise was the Great Depression in Germany where millions of citizens were unemployed. He rose up to fight for a solution. Hitler was chancellor of Germany first, then in August 1934, the cabinet had enacted a law abolishing the office of president, combining its powers with those of the chancellor. The next day Paul von Hindenburg, the president of Germany, died. After the death of the president, Hitler named himself Führer, or supreme leader, of Germany, he attacked the Jews and children with physical and developmental disabilities with laws that restricted them in society. He also persecuted homosexuals. He legitimized his leadership by putting anyone who opposed him into concentration camps. He blamed all of Germany’s problems on Jews and Communists. Adolf Hitler became absolute dictator. In the end it was worse than