" He also used the KGB as his personal guard and as well as a political tool like Napoleon used the dogs. The symbolism also prevails in Boxer, a hard working horse, who represents the dedicated "proletariat," Karl Marx's term for the unskilled labor class (Definitions of Communism).
The second similarity between the book and the Russian Revolution is correspondence of events. Many of the actions taken in Animal Farm are very much like the actions during the revolution. The animals all revolt and strike out at farmer for not feeding them and making them work hard hours and earn their freedom. They create a set of laws by which they would govern themselves. This is similar to physical revolution in Russia when workers rebel against tsar and eventually remove him from power. Then they change the laws, one of which abolishes the death penalty (Russian Revolution in Dates). Napoleon then removes Snowball from power, like Stalin did to Trotsky (Joseph Stalin). Then there is the beginning of work on the windmill on animal farm. One can compare this to the development of a five-year plan by Stalin to industrialize Russia. The later mass executions of people against the plan could be represented in execution of animals that reacted against Napoleon's various campaigns (Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953), Encyclopedia of Marxism: Glossary of Periodicals). Stalin continues his reign over Russian as Napoleon does in the end of the book. .
Last, we have one of Stalin's and Napoleon's most usefull tools, censorship of data. Continualy throughout the book Napoleon uses his control over the data and information about the farm's true situation. The animals are always told that the farm was doing good or that what the pigs are doing is correct. Also along with activly censoring data, Napoleon used propeganda to make himself or the farm look better. He often used Squealer to tell the other animals that he right and pursuade them that it was true.
