The Oppressed become the Oppressors

Out of all the Communist regimes that have risen, the leaders have of the Communist movement are usually driven to bring equality and to stop the abuses of the last government. Sadly though, when these leaders concentrate their power they do the same as the old leaders and oppress the people. This is the terrible irony to all Communist regimes, the Commies always preach for the freedom of the people and the equality of all of its citizens but in the end all the people get is brutal suppression and subjugation. As in all regimes, Animal Farm has undergone the transitions of a oppressive government. Like all other Communist leaders, they take up the lifestyle of the old leaders and forsake their misguided but noble values. The pigs who once were repulsed by the idea of an animal behaving like a man are now learning how to read, write and have taken on human vices such as smoking, drinking and gambling. In page 139 the animals were looking in a card game between the pigs and neighboring human farmers and both parties caught each other cheating “Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from to pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which”. This shows just how the cycle of the angered and vengeful oppressed come back to oppress the people.