Animal Farm

Interestingly, there are many similarities between the history of communist governance in the Soviet Union and with the events of George Orwell's Animal Farm. If you haven't read it, it's a great book.

For those that still do not believe George Orwell's novel Animal Farm was a criticism of communist governance, this page is for you. The famous phrase "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others," is not directed at the contemporary capitalist state. (Some have interpreted this statement to have been in reference to the necessary economic inequality in modern liberal democracies.) It was directed at communist governance, and, in particular, the communist governance of the U.S.S.R. before its downfall. In the former Soviet Union, the Nomenklatura gained for itself not only economic superiority, but legal superiority as well. While the people were subjected to a perpetual reign of terror, the communist Nomenklatura thrived. It was Soviet communism that Orwell attacked, not superlative Western democracy. But, I will provide the evidence in spades for the benefit of the stubborn and iconoclastic. These people, places and events from Orwell's Animal Farm directly equate with the people, places and events in the history of the Soviet Union: