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If you lived in Germany while the Berlin Wall still stood, what would you do? It would tower over you while you tried to get on with your life. If you tried to cross the border, you would be shot at. Life wouldn't be much different if you were an animal living on Manor farm. You would work as a slave, while Mr. Jones, the farmer,  loomed over you and did nothing to thank you for all your hard work. Even worse, you were underfed!

On August 12, 1961 Walter Ulbricht, the East German leader, signed the commands to close the border between East and West Germany, by building the Berlin Wall. This was to prevent people in East Germany from escaping to the West side, where they had more freedom. Plus, East Germany had already lost 2.5 million people by 1961 since the big war, so they decided to build a wall to prevent them from crossing the border to West Germany. Similarly, Napoleon the pig prevented animals from escaping the newly named “Animal Farm.” How? By having his guard dogs attack animals who tried to get away.

    People on the east side of Germany became angry, and they wanted to figure out a way to get to the other side of the wall. So they started running underground train lines to and from West Germany. But there were West Germany guards everywhere you looked, so anyone caught was shot and killed. Almost the same, Napoleon thought that Snowball was evil because he kept destroying the windmill that all the animals worked so hard to build. So Napoleon had his dogs run Snowball off the farm, and he killed all the animals that he thought were in league with Snowball.
    Many people attempted to tear down and cross the Berlin Wall, but never succeeded. Over 100,000 people tried to escape across the Berlin Wall between 1961 and 1988. More than 600 of them were shot and killed by GDR border guards. The rest were threatened by guns from communists. This is just like how many people tried to regain control of Animal farm, but the animals always prevailed, although many were wounded. Some were even shot and killed.
    The Berlin Wall was finally opened in 1990, because of political pressure. But the strange thing is, it wasn’t all torn down all at once. It wasn’t torn down by the guards or communists. It was gradually taken apart piece by piece by people from all around the world. Animal Farm was never reinhabited by Mr. Jones, or any other human as a matter of fact. But the disturbing part of this is that as the animals on Animal farm continued to rebel, and Napoleon continued to give orders, the pigs became just like the humans they wanted to get rid of.