Animal Farm Project

Fate

Association with Animal Farm

• Stalin died on March 5, 1953, at age 74, after suffering a stroke.
• Josef Stalin did not mellow with age. He prosecuted a reign of terror, purges, executions, exiles to labor camps and persecution in the postwar USSR.
• He established communist governments throughout Eastern Europe and in 1949, led the Soviets into the nuclear age by exploding an atomic bomb.
• In 1950, he gave North Korea’s communist leader Kim Il Sung permission to invade United States, an event that triggered the Korean War.
• He was responsible for the deaths of 20 million people during his brutal rule.

Controversy

• During his rule of the USSR, Stalin was seen as a cruel leader who would eliminate anyone who got in his way, and millions of people who refused to cooperate with him were executed as a result, such as Napoleon does.
• After Snowball was banished from the farm, Napoleon had his dogs kill “the traitors who had leagued themselves with Snowball” (p61).

This picture was taken of Stalin during his late years. He was a well respected man.

• His five-year plans aimed at boosting the country’s economy condemned the country to human losses.
• His influence on the people eventually grew into a cult of personality, denounced after his death by Nikita Khrushchev, who initiated the so-called “de-Stalinization.”
• He launched massive campaigns on the deportation and eradication of many ethnic groups from the Soviet territory.

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Citations

Josef Stalin

Josef Stalin in uniform. This uniform was worn during war.

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By: Jordon Lewis

Ideology

Interesting Facts

Josef Stalin was born on December 18, 1878 in Gori, Georgia, Russia.

• He was a dictator.
• He ruled the Soviet Union.
• Josef helped defeat Nazism.
• He modernized Russia.
• And also was General Secretary of the Communist Party.

• Stalin was born on December 18, 1979. However, the Old Style Julian calendar (the Russian calendar) marks his birthday as December 6. Stalin himself, however, changed his birthday to December 21, as well as his birth year (allegedly) to 1881, to throw off tsarist officials.
• Josef Stalin was actually born Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili and changed his name in his 30s. He changed it to Stalin because it means "man of steel".
• Claims exist that the dictator wanted to create an army of half-men, half-apes to restore Russia to glory.
• Stalin considered himself a producer, director, and screenwriter, as well as the ultimate censor. (Literally: he did everything from song lyrics and writing to coaching actors.)
• He said it himself: “One death is a tragedy, one million is a statistic,” and Stalin sure left one. Throughout his reign of terror, Josef was responsible for the death of 20 million citizens and 20 million soldiers and civilians who died in WWII.

• Stalin once said, "You know, they are fooling us, there is no God… all this talk about God is sheer nonsense."
• Stalin had a complex relationship with religion. He officially adopted the Russian Communist Party’s stance on religion, claiming atheism.
• Stalin was raised very religious in the Greek Orthodox Church and was raised to be a priest.
• Josef being “raised in a poor priest-ridden household", as he described it, perhaps contributed to his decision to become a Marxist revolutionary.
• He initiated a nationwide campaign to destroy churches and religious property and even persecute and kill church officials.

Political

Involvement

Napoleon from the novel, Animal Farm. As shown, this was an actual quote said by Josef Stalin.

• Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) from 1929 to 1953.
• Under Stalin, the Soviet Union was transformed from a peasant society into an "military superpower".
• After Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin died, Stalin outmaneuvered his rivals for control of the party.
• Stalin aligned with the United States and Britain in World War II (1939-1945).
• After wards, he engaged in a relationship with the West, known as the Cold War (1946-1991)
• After Stalin's death, the Soviets initiated a de-Stalinization process.

Association with Animal Farm Cont.

• "At this there was a terrible baying sound outside, and nine enormous dogs wearing brass-studded collars came bounding into the barn. They dashed straight for Snowball, who only sprang from his place just in time to escape their snapping jaws."
• This quote from Chapter 5 describe Napoleon’s violent expulsion of Snowball from Animal Farm, which parallels the falling-out between Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky.