Animal Farm- Context and Background Part 2 Ms. Fatima

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  1. Hello, everyone.
  2. This is Miss Fatima, and this is the second video
  3. in which I discuss context and background in Animal Farm.
  4. Andi, I will start with with Stalin on Trotsky on
  5. Dhe. Those were Lenin's successes and leading the Communist Party.
  6. Okay, now they both emerged as the most likely as
  7. to Lenin's vast power.
  8. As I said on Dhe, they were quite different.
  9. Trask Iwas, a popular on dhe charismatically.
  10. They're famous for the impassioned speeches, while the taciturn Stalin
  11. preferred to consolidate his power behind the scenes on after
  12. than his death in 1924 Stalin August orchestrated and alliance
  13. against Trotsky that included him.
  14. Self Genevieve, Caron Eve.
  15. In the following years, Stalin succeeded in becoming the unquestioned
  16. dictator off the Soviet Union on her tratos key, expelled
  17. first from Moscow and then from the Communist Party on
  18. finally, from Russia altogether.
  19. In 1930 six, Trotsky had fled to Mexico, where he
  20. was assassinated on Stalin's orders.
  21. In 1940.
  22. In 1934 Stanley's ally, Serge Kirov, was assassinated in Leningrad,
  23. prompting stallion to commence his infamous purges off the Communist
  24. Party holding show trials trials whose outcome he and his
  25. allies had already decided Stand has had his opponents officially
  26. denounced as participants in Trotskyist or anti Stalinist conspiracies, and
  27. therefore as enemies off the people on appellation that guarantee
  28. the immediate execution.
  29. As the Soviet governments economic planet faltered and failed, Russia
  30. suffered under a surge off violence, fear and starvation.
  31. Stan used his former opponent as a tear as a
  32. tool to as a tool to placate the wretched populace.
  33. Ah, Trotsky became a common national enemy and thus a
  34. sort off negative unity.
  35. He waas.
  36. A frightening specter used to control horrifying eventualities, pale in
  37. comparison in comparison with which the current misery paled.
  38. Additionally, by associating his enemy with torches, Keys, name Stalin
  39. could assure the immediate and automatic elimination from the Communist
  40. Party. Now, these on many other developments in Soviet history
  41. before 1945 have direct Powell's in Animal Farm, So Napoleon
  42. are snowballs from the farm, and after the windmill collapses,
  43. he uses snowball in his purges.
  44. Just at Stalin, used Trotsky, and similarly, Napoleon becomes a
  45. dictator, while Snowball is never heard off again.
  46. And finally, Orwell Waas inspired right animal farm import by
  47. his experiences in a Trotskyite group during the Spanish civil
  48. war on Snowball certainly received or more sympathy, sympathetic portrayal
  49. than Napoleon.
  50. But thou Animal Farm was written as an attack on
  51. a specific government.
  52. It's general themes of oppression, suffering and industries have far
  53. broader implication.
  54. Modern readers have come to see always work as a
  55. powerful attack on any political rhetorical or military power that
  56. seeks to control human beings unjustly.
  57. Hope this was useful and thank you for listening.