This, obviously, is a reference to Stalin, who murdered many of his own people in order to maintain his dictatorship of Russia. ... Napoleon, based on Joseph Stalin, is the pig who becomes the leader of Animal Farm after the Rebellion. ... Although he is most directly modeled on the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, Napoleon represents, in a more general sense, the political tyrants that have emerged throughout human history and with particular frequency during the twentieth century. ...

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