Read the passage from chapter 7 of Animal Farm.
If she [Clover] could have spoken her thoughts, it
would have been to say that this was not what they
had aimed at when they had set themselves years ago
to work for the overthrow of the human race. These
scenes of terror and slaughter were not what they had
looked forward to on that night when old Major first
stirred them to rebellion. If she herself had had any
picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals
set free from hunger and the whip, all equal, each
working according to his capacity, the strong
protecting the weak, as she had protected the lost
brood of ducklings with her foreleg on the night of
Major's speech. Instead-she did not know why-they
had come to a time when no one dared speak his
mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere,
and when you had to watch your comrades torn to
pieces after confessing to shocking crimes.
Which historical circumstance most likely influenced
the writing of this passage?
life under the rule of Lenin's communist Russia, in
which everyone shared and prospered
the farm during World War II, when many people
died from battle as well as starvation
agriculture and farming under the reign of the
Romanovs, when there was food for the rich
tyranny during Stalin's dictatorship, in which he
distorted the tenets of communism