In Animal Farm, Orwell satirizes the people in power in the Stalinist Soviet Union, especially their claims that they differed from the power elite in capitalist countries. Capitalists were sometimes depicted by communists as fat, greedy pigs, and in this novel, Orwell uses pigs as the leaders of the so-called communist (animalist) farm to satirize, or make fun of, the way the Stalinist leadership was every bit as bad as the former masters they replaced. This is dark satire in the vein of Swift, showing how the innocent, hardworking animals like Boxer who believed in equality and the principles of animalism were betrayed and made to suffer while Napoleon and his close followers grew ever more powerful and corrupt. Orwell was a socialist who believed in principles of equality and wrote the book because he was sickened by the hypocrisy, lies and brutality of Stalinism.
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