George Orwell's "Animal Farm" I

I was eager to read this novel,from the moment one of my professors
talked about it.That was some two years back.Yesterday,I got the
novel.I knew the reason of my interest.I read two articles of George
Orwell,a year back.One was about the fate of creative literature in
the totalitarian states behind the iron curtains. I
knew 'Animal Farm' was a political allegory targetting 'Soviet Union'
and it's socialist ideas and Stalin's dictatorship.Orwell once wrote
"Since 1930 I had seen little evidence that USSR was progressing
towards anything that one could truly call Socialism.On the contrary,I
was struck by clear signs of its transformation into a hierarchical
society,in which the rulers hate no more reason to give up their power
than any other ruling class..." So it's the
background..I'll say more abt it in the next post.