Then a sheep confessed to having urinated in the drinking pool—urged to do this, so she said, by Snowball—and two other sheep co
nfessed to having murdered an old ram, an especially devoted follower of Napoleon, by chasing him round and round a bonfire when he was suffering from a cough. They were all slain on the spot. And so the tale of confessions and executions went on, until there was a pile of corpses lying before Napoleon’s feet and the air was heavy with the smell of blood, which had been unknown there since the expulsion of Jones. –Animal Farm, George Orwell How does Orwell create an allegory of the Great Purge in the passage? by depicting false confessions and brutality by creating a character who is a strong leader by showing a related series of causes and effects by using imagery when showing scenes of violence
The correct answer is "It shows similarities with Stalin's Great Purge and reveals how dictators use fear to control people".
Stalin used diverse tactics to deceit the people and gain control over his image. Once he got to a position of perceived power, he used the secret police in the same way that Napoleon uses his dogs: to quiet down the opposition with the use of force and fear-spreading. Public displays of violence as a form of punishment result in a society controlled by fear, where everyone behaves according to the imposition of a tyrant or dictator.
