As far as Soviet Russia goes, if tactics are distinguished from policy, it is obvious in retrospect that Soviet diplomacy had never emancipated itself from the fundamental principle of Bolshevik foreign policy: hostility to the West. ... In the end however, a bland statement was issued from the Yalta Conference that specified that the Eastern frontier of Poland would be based on the Curzon line, but it did not mention where it would leave the northern and western frontiers. ... It resulted from a meeting at sea between Roosevelt and Churchill in August 1941. ... And when the Soviet violati...

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He was exiled to Siberia in 1903, but escaped and returned to western Russia in 1904. ... Stalin's rise to power from the lower ranks was quite a journey. ... Stalin also killed nearly all of the elite members of his political party from 1934 to 1938 (Stalin Man 1653). ... First, he killed or exiled all of his political opponents. ... While many western scholars estimate the total number to be anywhere from 2 to 40 million, most Russian historians estimate the number of deaths to only be in the hundreds of thousands (The Unquiet 132). ...

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He was exiled to Siberia in 1903, but escaped and returned to western Russia in 1904. ... Stalin's rise to power from the lower ranks was quite a journey. ... Stalin also killed nearly all of the elite members of his political party from 1934 to 1938 (Stalin Man 1653). ... First, he killed or exiled all of his political opponents. ... While many western scholars estimate the total number to be anywhere from 2 to 40 million, most Russian historians estimate the number of deaths to only be in the hundreds of thousands (The Unquiet 132). ...

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Yet he is lord of all the animals. ... "(7) and "All men are enemies. All animals are comrades." (9). ... Jones is assisted by men from the bordering farms of Foxwood and Pinchfield, just as some western countries sent troops to help the Russian forces; the Battle of Windmill symbolizes the industrialization of Russia. ... The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." (118) The revolution had failed, and the animals were no better off from the days of Mr. ...

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From these ideas he created the Five-Year Plans,grandiose plans that were obviously unattainable goals for the soviet population. ... PARALLELS Since Orwell's intention was to draw direct parallels between actual history and the fictional characters and events in Animal Farm, it comes to reason that there are quite a few to be named. ... Seven commandments were established for all animals to follow, and all animals adhered to them very stringently, at first. ... If she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals set free from hunger and the whip, al...

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