“Do you know the enemy who has come in the night and overthrown our windmill? SNOWBALL!” he suddenly roared in a voice of thunder, “Snowball has done this thing!”
Propaganda: ideas or statements that may be false or exaggerated and that are used in order to gain support for a political leader, party, etc.enemy propaganda, a propaganda campaign.
Discussion
Do you think Snowball destroyed the windmill?
What else might have happened to the Windmill?
If Snowball didn’t really destroy the windmill, why do you think Napoleon says he did?
What message is Napoleon intending to spread?
Extra: On Scapegoating
“Stalin, in the Russian Revolution, used Leon Trotsky as a scapegoat for a host of problems in the post-revolution USSR, even though Trotsky had been exiled long before the problems arose. To shift focus from the terrorizing effect his brutal leadership had on the Russian people,[1] Stalin channeled his people’s fears into a hatred for Trotsky. Stalin branded and demonized his political opponent as a capitalist stooge and counter-revolutionary, as a means of redirecting blame from his own administration.[2]
Extra: Trotsky vs Stalin
“Stalin not only hunted Trotsky but anyone close to him from country to country. In Barcelona, in June 1937, his assassins abducted Trotsky’s former collaborator, Andrés Nin, a leader in the POUM (Workers’ Party of Marxist Unification), the organization of militants made famous by George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia. Nin disappeared at a critical moment in the Spanish revolutionaries’ struggle against Francisco Franco, never to been seen again. Thirteen months later, in Paris, Rudolf Klement, who had once worked as Trotsky’s secretary, sat down for breakfast. Klement was kidnapped, presumably by GPU agents. They seized him and left his food on the table untouched. A few weeks after he vanished, a body, missing its head and legs, washed up on the Seine. It was not enough to just kill Klement; decapitation and dismemberment were required to incite extra terror.”
Trotsky's Struggle Against Stalin
Time for a Kahoot
External Link: Kahoot on Chapters 5 & 6