Here is the famous 1954 Animal Farm cartoon film based on the allegorical anti-Stalinist novel by George Orwell. Most of you know who have read the book are quite aware that the pig Napoleon represents Josef Stalin, and his chief rival, the pig Snowball, represents Stalin’s adversary Leon Trotsky. As in the novel Napoleon is triumphant over both his human enemies and Snowball. But the cartoon, made and produced in cooperation with the CIA, has a dramatically different ending than the novel. Here Trotskyist animals rise up in a final revolution and destroy the last vestige of rule by the … Continue reading The Famous 1954 Animal Farm Cartoon