upport bad leaders. Starvation proved Napoleon’s and Stalin’s ideas to be dangerous, yet made them more powerful, which satisfied their greed. A third example had such cruelty, when combined with propaganda and silencing those who interfere with official stories makes dictators even more secure. Napoleon purging and killing Snowball. Snowball created commandments that said all animals were equal, and helped to get the animals to be happy and trust each other. He created the idea of making a windmill. Napoleon wanted all the credit so he sent dogs to kill Snowball; “…nine enormous dogs wearing brass-studded collars came bounding into the barn. They dashed straight for Snowball…he was out of the door and they were after him,” (67). Once Snowball was pushed out of Animal Farm, everything changed, including the commandments. In the end, his writing was corrupted into, “All Animals are created equal, but some animals are more equal than others,” (133). Stalin exiled Trotsky and later killed him. Trotsky tried to create a Utopian society, but when he was exiled, Stalin enforced rules that no one else could veto. The dictator then stood unchallenged both in his cruelty and power. The animals of the farm firmly believed Napoleon was a great ruler regardless of the suffering they endured due to their unquestioning acceptance of ideas. For example, no one noticed when Snowball’s idea was ...
