Read the passage from chapter 5 of Animal Farm.
That evening Squealer explained privately to the other
animals that Napoleon had never in reality been
opposed to the windmill. On the contrary, it was he
who had advocated it in the beginning, and the plan
which Snowball had drawn on the floor of the
incubator shed had actually been stolen from among
Napoleon's papers. The windmill was, in fact,
Napoleon's own creation. Why, then, asked
somebody, had he spoken so strongly against it? Here
Squealer looked very sly. That, he said, was Comrade
Napoleon's cunning. He had seemed to oppose the
windmill, simply as a maneuver to get rid of Snowball,
who was a dangerous character and a bad influence.
Now that Snowball was out of the way, the plan could
go forward without his interference. This, said
Squealer, was something called tactics. He repeated a
number of times. "Tactics, comrades, tactics!" skipping
What is Orwell ridiculing in this passage?
O He is making fun of the idea of pigs building
something.
OHe is making fun of leaders who tell lies to their
people.
O He is making fun of people who question their
leaders.
O He is making fun of pigs calling one another
comrades.