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Squealer's Use Of Propaganda During The Russian Revolution

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Lies, there was a multitude of lies spread due to the use of propaganda by all forms of government and all the countries of the world during WWI & WWII. There are many forms of propaganda, for example; there is name calling, bandwagon, card stalking, plain folks, etc. All of these are used in different ways, like name-calling that uses names to evoke fear or anger in the viewer. This technique applies a negative idea to the person of choice making them to be the enemy. In Animal Farm the character "Squealer" represents the propaganda used during the Russian revolution.

My topic of propaganda played a major part in the Russian revolution but remains " little studied" as it doesn’t seem to be as important in our world today. During the Russian revolution the Russian empire was very low on food, so to keep their people on their side joseph Stalin used propaganda to manipulate their minds into thinking less about the food shortage and more about winning the war. Another thing was that even with all their resources going to the military, the government was unable to continue the funding to both the military and the people of Russia. For most nations the most effective way to …show more content…
one example would be when Napoleon lied to all the animals about selling the timber to Pilkington, but at the last minute selling it to Frederick instead. "Two days later the animals were called together for a special meeting in the barn. They were struck dumb with surprise when Napoleon announced that he had sold the pile of timber to Frederick. Tomorrow Frederick's wagons would arrive and begin carting it away. Throughout the whole period of his seeming friendship with Pilkington, Napoleon had really been in secret agreement with Frederick."- (Orwell) page 59. This took the animals by shock considering that they all thought that Pilkington was the one who would get the

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