Essay On Stalin's Five Year Plan

Stalin’s 5 year plans, Freedom or Slavery?

The Problem:
Imagine you the dictator of a country and are faced with an uprising of rebels who are fighting for your destruction, an industrial degression dropping at the rate of a dead fly, and a group of political masterminds strategizing the overtaking of all your political power. This is when Joseph Stalin faced in 1987. He had two options. One was do what is just and will most benefit the countries and its people; or control them with fear and power and enforce slavery upon them to sustain his rule. Since the October Revolution industrial progress had been rather slow. They hadn’t reached the production level of the first world war until 1927. It was that year when Stalin’s advisors told him

Stalin’s second five year plan focused on the previous plan’s goals but specialized in increasing reliable communication, especially railways. The second five year plan started out not as successful as the first for it was lacking major production of coal and oil, so Stalin began to improvise. In attempt for more laboring hands Stalin introduced incentives, punishments, and the introduction of childcare to promote mothers to contribute to the cause. The second 5 year plan ended up bringing a lower living standard to citizens because it sacrificed a great amount of the production of consumers goods, for military improvisation, and modernization of the heavy industry. In 1937 the second 5 year plan

Napoleon 's initial plan to create a windmill is replicant for Stalin 's first 5 year plan. Napoleon offers the animals hope for a better life where labor is replaced with luxury; as Stalin used propaganda to convince people that his plans benefit everybody. In both cases the workers are mostly uneducated and blindly trust the leader, and fall victim the tyranny that the leader unleashes. Boker, Clover, and the donkey are symbolism for those peasants who worked the hardest but were not smart enough to prevent themselves from falling into Stalin’s propaganda. The neighboring farm represented Germany and a threat to Russia/Animal farm. When the neighbor farm blew up the Animals windmill the Animals fought back and defeated them, just as Russia and the Allies defeated Hitler and the Nazis in WW2. The book has inputted nearly every minute factor of Stalin’s 5 year plans and the evil of communism and was disguised geniusly within the Animal Farm