Animal Farm is a classic guide for a dictator's rise to power

        Napoleon starts his taking over of the farm slowly but surely. First he starts by agreeing with the most popular and godly figure/leader, Old Major. Him and his partners, Snowball and Squealer all work together. Napoleon starts to plan ahead in his conquering of Animal Farm. He begins by securing his own safety/defense and offense. He notices that Jessie and Bluebell were having puppies so he takes them to brainwash and use for him self. He took the puppies and had Squealer convince the mother that she should be honored to have her puppies chosen. Saddam Hussein was especially known for not caring about age, but thinking more about his own safety. He encouraged younger boys to fight and know how to use weapons. Hirohito, the 124th Emperor of Japan, was even more careless about taking kids into training. He had young Unabomber’s. He had his generals take care for most of the war dealings. They had Japanese families already thinking that having their children fight for them would bring honor to their families. Saddam Hussein also reportedly helped form secret police units that cracked down on dissidents and those opposed to Ba'ath rule.

        After Napoleon had established his secret police, the next step was to throw out any existent power or rivals. Snowball happened to be the pig in his way. He had his dogs chase him out of the farm and convinced the citizens of Animal Farm that he was a traitor. A similar act happened with Saddam Hussein. On July 16, 1979, President al-Bakr resigned and Saddam rose to the presidency. Five of his fellow members of the Revolutionary Command Council were quickly accused of involvement in a coup attempt and executed, along with 17 other rivals. After Napoleon had complete rule over Animal Farm, he then saw to it that he gained from his position in power and the rule changing began. Adolph Hitler was responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands of people. He made his own rules and did not obey human rights. All of the dictators I have mentioned have done the same thing that Napoleon did when he found out that there were traitors amongst him. He killed the chickens and all the animals who confessed to working with Snowball. Saddam and Fidel killed rivals, traitors, and even suspect traitors instantly. Napoleon and all of these dictators did not want any rivalry or any uprisings against them so they took care of it ASAP.

        After everything was secured, there were many things to explain such as why it still wasn’t like how the dictators promised it would be. Napoleon had Squealer throw out a whole bunch of numbers and statistics to make the animals believe that they were doing a whole lot better than when Mr. Jones was in charge. Fidel Castro and Saddam Hussein both also had a problem keeping his people off of poverty and hunger. Propaganda has also been a good way to keep the peoples minds off of their own problems. Napoleon would build up anger within the Animals, anger towards Snowball for sabotaging so many things when in reality it wasn’t really him. Hitler and other dictators built up hate towards other countries using propaganda. In Iraq, there were a lot of traces of negative propaganda towards the United States. Hitler used propaganda to make his people believe that they were superior to everyone else. In text books they showed how they were the most evolved people because they resembled primates the least.