In Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell, Napoleon represents Stalin, who built a dictatorship under the guise of communism.
Orwell satirizes Joseph Stalin, one of the fathers of the Russian Revolution, by representing him in the figure of a pig, Napoleon. In the novel, he also explores the relationship between Stalin and Trotsky, who is represented by Snowball. In that way, the author equates pigs with human tyrants. This becomes clearer at the end of the novel when it becomes impossible to distinguish men from pigs.
