Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Tawayen dabbobin da ke adawa da Manomi Jones shine kwatankwacin Orwell tare da Juyin Juya Halin Bolshevik na Oktoba 1917. An ce "Yakin Cowshed" yana wakiltar mamayar da aka yi wa Soviet Rasha a 1918, da kuma nasarar da White Russians suka yi a cikin yakin basasa na Rasha. Tashin aladu zuwa ga fifiko yana nuna haɓakar tsarin mulkin Stalinist a cikin USSR, kamar yadda fitowar Napoleon a matsayin shugaban gonar ya nuna fitowar Stalin. Yin amfani da aladu na madara da tuffa don amfanin kansu, "mahimmin juzu'i na labarin" kamar yadda Orwell ya kira shi a cikin wasika zuwa Dwight Macdonald, ya tsaya a matsayin kwatankwacin murkushewa na hagu 1921 Kronstadt tawaye
da Bolsheviks, da kuma kokarin da dabbobi ke yi na gina injin injin iska ya nuna wasu tsare-tsaren shekaru biyar. Karnukan da Napoleon ke sarrafawa suna daidai da kula da 'yan sanda na sirri a cikin tsarin Stalinist, kuma yadda aladu ke kula da sauran dabbobi a gonar ya tuna da ta'addancin da jama'a ke fuskanta a cikin shekarun 1930. A babi na bakwai, lokacin da dabbobin suka furta laifukansu da ba su wanzu ba kuma aka kashe su, Orwell kai tsaye ya ambaci tsarkakewa, furci da kuma nuna gwaji na ƙarshen 1930s. Waɗannan sun ba da gudummawa ga tabbacin Orwell cewa juyin juya halin Bolshevik ya lalace kuma tsarin Soviet ya zama mai lalacewa.