Lily

What can I say? Genius.

Orwell was one of the few political writers that criticized the left just as much as the right after he had some first hand experience in the war in Spain. 

The animal farm is a book about Soviet Union and the “battle” for leadership between Trotsky(Snowball) and Stalin(Napoleon). It shows how Stalin managed to get Trotsky out of the country, even though he wanted to kill him sooner, the propaganda that was going on against Trotsky and how he managed to convince the public he was a traitor, the false promises and hopes the people had and how the man who said he was different from his enemies wasn't different at all. 

When I first read it as a kid with my dad I really thought that it had a moral message of how greed and a position of power can corrupt people but in the case of Stalin(Napoleon) I wouldn't say that was the case.

The only problem I have, that I may be false because maybe I don't remember correctly, is that Orwell portrays Stalin as useless, without his own ideas at all and I don't think Stalin was that useless. Stalin was criticized for not being as intelligent as Trotsky or Lenin but Orwell basically makes Stalin a man who can't stand on his own and he relays heavily on others.