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People always listen to the people that are bad influences. Most of the people tend to listen to the source of propaganda in a corrupt government. Animal Farm is a friendly way of explaining what happened in the soviet union. It compares it to a farm that is in need of a new leader. Their new leader is cruel and bad the rest of the farm is blind enough that they can't find out what their leader is doing is cruel and horrible. In Animal Farm, George Orwell presents the idea that people in society tend to believe whatever they are told especially when the source of propaganda is a corrupt government. For example when squealer is telling how great of a leader napoleon is when really he is a horrible. The people in that society believe whatever a government official
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Joseph Stalin was considered to be a bad husband and a bad father. The day Joseph’s wife died, There was only two ways she could have died. She could have committed suicide or Joseph killed her. Then Stalin refused a trade to save his son and he turned down the trade. He is considered selfish and unworthy to be a leader. If the man can’t even take care of his own family how could people think that he should have the power to be the leader/dictator for their country.
There were many wars at the time of Stalin’s era. There was a law that any troops that were to retreat were to be shot on target. This is another way Joseph Stalin was a cruel and horrible man. They are in war and if troops were to retreat those troops had no purpose in the first place. Joseph Stalin really is just declaring war on his own troops. Everyone makes mistakes and if those troops made a mistake they have to lose their life. This is another reason why Joseph Stalin should have never been leader. The people still believe that he is a good leader after all these things he has put his own people in.
The people in Russia made their


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