Similarities Between Animal Farm And Joseph Stalin

Eric Blair, who used the pen name George Orwell, wrote the book Animal Farm. This novel is a political book where Orwell criticizes Stalinism. Stalinism is Joseph Stalin’s concept of communism, which he used to rule the USSR.
Joseph Stalin was a dictator for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, also known as USSR, from 1929 to 1953. When Stalin dictated the Soviet Union, he transformed the Soviet Union into an industrial and military superpower. He used terror to rule over his people and caused many of them to die during his reign. Communism is a type of government that own resources and transport products, such as land, oil, factories and ships. There is no privately owned property in this type of government. Joseph Stalin became a
member of the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party. This party took power in Russia and founded the Soviet Union making Lenin their first leader. Stalin rose to power and became the secretary general of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. After Lenin died he began to dictate using Communism.
Joseph Stalin is mentioned in The Book Thief, because when Hitler invaded Stalingrad, Russia, Stalin was still in power.
Michael Holtzapfel came back from the war created when Hitler invaded Stalingrad. Stalin is also mention in the novel when death says that he still hasn’t had time to recover from the murders Stalin is causing of his own people. Death feels that it is important to mention event happening other place, such as Russia, to the reader.
In the novel, Animal Farm, Joseph Stalin is portrayed by Napoleon. Napoleon is a pig that is the leader of the farm. Just like Stalin, Napoleon is a dictator that used terror in order to maintain his ruling position. Both of them are no afraid to kill anyone that does not obey them. For example, Joseph Stalin killed many people of the Soviet Union because they refused to cooperate with him. Napoleon takes the same action as Stalin when he trains the puppies. Instead of it benefiting the puppies, they benefit him because they protect him and eliminate anyone who goes against
him:
Without any further prompting they confessed that they had been secretly in touch with Snowball ever since his expulsion, that they had collaborated with him in destroying the windmill, and that they had entered into an agreement with him to hand over Animal Farm to Mr. Frederick. They added that Snowball had privately admitted to them that he had been Jone’s secret agent for years past. When they had finished they confession, the dogs promptly tore their throats out, and in a terrible voice Napoleon demanded weather any other animal had anything to confess. (Orwell 83-84)
Night is an autobiography written by Elie Wiesel when he was a teenager.
His wife, Marion Wiesel, translated his story in to English. This novel is about Wiesel being taken from his home in Sighet, Transylvania and being sent to Auschwitz, a concentration camp in Poland, because he and his family were Jewish. He writes about his experience over the death of his family members and the hardship in the concentration camps. Night tells the reader what life was like if you where a Jew when Hitler ruled over Germany.
In the novel Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Max Vandenburg is a Jew living in Gemany during World War II. Erik Vandenburg, Max’s father, meet Hans Hubermann in a war and saves his life, but unfortunately Erik was killed. Hans then promises to take care of Erik’s family. When the Nazi soldiers came to Max’s family to deport them to a concentration camp, his mother gave Max an address to Hans Hubermann’s house and forced him to leave his family behind in order for him to live. Max feels guilty later on in the book about leaving his family behind and being the only one
alive.
Before being taken to the concentration camps, Elie Wiesel lived in Sighet, Transylvania. During that time, Transylvania was recently annexed to Hungary, therefore, Wiesel’s family became residents of Hungary. He is the only son Jewish family who is strict on Jewish traditions and laws. Wiesel has two older sisters, Hilda and Béa, and a younger sister names Tzipora. His parents were shopkeepers and his father was respected in the Jewish community in Sighet. When he was twelve years old, Wiesel was studying Talmud, the Jewish oral law and Kabbalah, Jewish mystical texts. At night, he would go to a synagogue and wept while he prayed. In the spring of 1944, the German army occupied the Hungarian government and moves into Sighet. The Jews are forced to wear yellow stars and they are confined in small ghettos. Then, the Nazis begin to deport the Jews.