The two pigs represent Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky. Stalin's part being played by Napoleon and Trotsky's by Snowball. ... Stalin actually does over throw Trotsky, as does Napoleon to Snowball. ... Trotsky is truly a good speaker and a smarter individual, but Stalin showed no mercy to his counterpart and outsmarted him solely on the basis of his understanding of government. Much like Soviet events, Stalin then makes a country dislike Trotsky through a series of lies and eventually Trotsky is fleeing the country much as Snowball does in Animal Farm. ...

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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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Introduction "Animal Farm" is a symbolical political satire in which animals take the place of humans. These animals can talk and are just as intelligent as humans. They learn to read and each type of animal a different aspect of humanity. (Ex.: Pigs- Politicians; Horses- Laborers; Sheep- Gullible P...

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