Animal Farm and USSR

Single-party dictatorship Communist Party Pigs

Dear Leader Stalin Napoleon

State Control of Economy Chickens Forced to Turn Over Eggs “Comrade come to our collective farm!” Collectivization

“Five Year Plan; A Blow to Capitalism” Five Year Plans Windmill

Alexei Stakhanov = Ideal Worker Boxer = Ideal Worker

Gov’t Terror NKVD = Secret Police Dogs = Secret Police

Gov’t Terror Purges of Enemies Purges of Enemies

Trotsky = #1 Enemy Snowball = #1 Enemy

USSR: Show Trials (1930s) Many top Commies accused of being enemies of the revolution Accused often “confessed” to the crimes Executions often followed

Zinoviev Put on trial in 1936 August 24, 1936:Found “guilty” August 25, 1936: Executed

Bukharin Arrested 1937 March 13, 1938: found “guilty” March 15, 1938: executed

DeathTally: at least 20 million Executed Starved to death Die in the gulag

Indoctrinating the Youth Young Pioneers and Komsomol Puppies Seized By Dogs

Young Pioneers Oath “ I, a Young Pioneer of the Soviet Union, before my comrades do solemnly swear to be true to the precepts of Lenin, to stand firmly for the cause of our Communist Party and for the cause of Communism”

Pavlik Morozov 13 yr. old turned in his father Heralded as ideal Soviet youth

Gov’t Control and Censorship of Media

Propaganda Squealer

Pravda (“Truth”): Official newspaper of the Communist Party

Glavlit: gov’t censoring agency Goskomizdat : gov’t agency controlling publication of books and other literature

Minimus Creating Rev. Art                                                                                                                                                                                                      Beautiful as birds all in a row Songs fly above the Soviet land. The happy refrain of the cities and fields: "Life's getting better And happier too!" The country is growing and singing as one, It forges everyone's joy with its songs. Look at the sun--the sun's brighter too! "Life's getting better And happier too!" There's room everywhere for our minds and our hands, Wherever you go you'll find you have friends. Old age feels warmer, and youth braver still-- "Life's getting better And happier too!" Know, Voroshilov, we're all standing guard-- We won't give the enemy even a yard. There is a saying for folks old and young: "Life's getting better And happier too!" Let's let the whole gigantic country Shout to Stalin: "Thank you, our man, Live long, prosper, never fall ill!" "Life's getting better And happier too!“ “Life’s Getting Better” Minimus Creating Rev. Art Control Over Artists

Socialist Realism Socialist Realism: style of art designed to glorify communist party and Lenin/Stalin all artists had to join the Union of Soviet Artists Stalin: “Artists are the engineers of souls” “Stalin as an organizer of the October Revolution”

“An Unforgettable Meeting” – Vasili Efanov

“A collective farm feast” - Alesandr Gerasimov, 1937

“Return of the Winners”

                                                                                                                  

“Industrial Worker and Collective Farm Girl” – Vera Mukhina, 1935

Architecture Palace of the Soviets Proposed building glorifying communism would have been world’s tallest building Lenin at the top would have been larger than the Statue of Liberty

Altering of Photos Squealer Changing Commandments

Photo #1: Stalin and Yezhov

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