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You didn't understand Animal Farm in your teens? It's the world's most unsubtle allegory.
It is what happens to workers under capitalism. The accusation is that Stalin is like the capitalists.
Same usually happens with 1984, ime. I didn't know that it was an anticommunist book until I joined Lemmy
It's because American schools don't teach international history or reading comprehension. Animal farm was basically my introduction to Russian history at 14 years old and I had to Google Stalin, Trotsky, and Lenin to figure out wtf was going on.
What is embarrassing is that people come back to the text as adults (many college educated!) when they're supposed to be smarter and they read it with the critical skills of a 15th century Bavarian peasant.
It hits you over the head so hard with it that they use it to teach 11 and 12 year olds how to analyze text for allegories lol