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Beginning of Russian Revolution. Czar's government falls. Stalin rushes to St. Petersburg to claim power.
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The animals in Animal Farm rebel against Jones. Napoleon is quick to take up a position of leadership.
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Stalin is elected General Secretary of the Communist Party.
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Napoleon assumes a position of power at Animal Farm after Jones is overthrown.
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Stalin has history rewritten to show him as a national hero.
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Napoleon has official documents changed to discredit Snowball and show himself as a champion of Animal Farm.
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After publicly denouncing Trotsky several times, Stalin expels Trotsky from Russia.
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Napoleon runs Snowball off Animal Farm when Snowball's ideas garner much favor.
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The first of Stalin's five-year plans commences.
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The animals begin to work on a windmill on Napoleon's orders.
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Stalin announces "liquidation of the kulaks as a class" since they refused to give up their land.
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Napoleon cuts off hens food and forbids the other animals to communicate with them because they refused to give up their eggs to Mr. Whymper.
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Millions die of starvation in the Soviet Union while under Stalin's rule.
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With Napoleon as leader, there is a food shortage to all the working animals at animal farm.
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Zinoviev, Kamenev, and their allies confess and are executed. Start of "The Great Terror" caused by Stalin's paranoia. Many "show trials" proceed.
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Napoleon executes many of the animals on the farm on the grounds of aiding Snowball in treacherous deeds. False confessions are made by victims.
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Stalin negotiates a pact with Hitler to ally Russia and Germany.
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Napoleon decides to sell timber to Frederick at Pinchfield Farm
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Hitler betrays his agreement with Stalin and bombs Russia.
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After cheating Napoleon out of money for timber, Frederick blasts the windmill to pieces.
