Read the excerpt from Animal Farm and the passage
on the history of the Soviet Union.
On the third Sunday after Snowball's expulsion, the
animals were somewhat surprised to hear Napoleon
announce that the windmill was to be built after all. He
did not give any reason for having changed his mind,
but merely warned the animals that this extra task
would mean very hard work, it might even be
necessary to reduce their rations. The plans, however,
had all been prepared, down to the last detail. A
special committee of pigs had been at work upon them
for the past three weeks. The building of the windmill,
with various other improvements, was expected to
take two years.
That evening Squealer explained privately to the other
animals that Napoleon had never in reality been
opposed to the windmill. On the contrary, it was he
How do the circumstances in the Animal Farm excerpt
relate to the events in the historical passage?
Napoleon has stolen the plans for the windmill from
Snowball, just as Stalin took his ideas for
industrialization and collectivization from Trotsky.
Napoleon wants to make the farm an industrial
power, just as Stalin wanted to make the Soviet
Union an industrial power no matter the sacrifices.
Napoleon uses Squealer to communicate his ideas
to the animals, just as Stalin used his assistants to
spread propaganda to the people.
Napoleon sets forth a five-year plan to build the
windmill, just as Stalin launched several five-year
plans to build up industry and agriculture in the
Soviet Union.