Snowball, based on Leon Trotsky, is the pig who challenges Napoleon to run Animal Farm after the Rebellion. ... As a comparable to Leon Trotsky, Snowball starts as a enthusiastic advocator of ideology, who put every ounce of his heart and soul into the attempt of spreading Animalism worldwide, but his optimism quickly leads him to his defeat. ...

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Being an allegory, most of the characters and events have a parallel in Stalinist Russia: Mr Jones, the evil farmer, represents the Russian Czar; Napolean, the power hungry boar, portrays the corrupt Joesph Stalin and Snowball, the idealistic pig, personifies Leon Trotsky, the clever partner of Stalin. ...

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