How do the circumstances in the Animal Farm excerpt Read the excerpt from Animal Farm and the passage on the history of the Soviet Union. relate to the events in the historical passage? On the third Sunday after Snowball's expulsion, the animals were somewhat surprised to hear Napoleon announce that the windmill was to be built after all. He did not give any reason for having changed his mind, ONapoleon has stolen the plans for the windmill from Snowball, just as Stalin took his ideas for industrialization and collectivization from Trotsky. ONapoleon wants to make the farm an industrial but merely warned the animals that this extra task power, just as Stalin wanted to make the Soviet Union an industrial power no matter the sacrifices. would mean very hard work, it might even be necessary to reduce their rations. The plans, however, had all been prepared, down to the last detail. A special committee of pigs had been at work upon them ONapoleon uses Squealer to communicate his ideas to the animals, just as Stalin used his assistants to ead propaganda to the people. ONapoleon sets forth a five-year plan to build the windmill, just as Stalin launched several five-year for the past three weeks. The building of the windmill, with various other improvements, was expected to take two years. plans to build up industry and agriculture in the That evening Squealer explained privately to the other animals that Napoleon had never in reality been Soviet Union. opposed to the windmill. On the contrary, it was he who had advocated it in the heainnina and the nlan Mark this and return Save and Exit Next Submit