Animal Farm satire not at all gentle upon a particular State—Soviet Russia? It seems to me that a reviewer should have the courage to identify Napoleon with Stalin, and Snowball with Trotsky, and express an opinion favourable or unfavourable to the author, upon a political ground. In a hundred years time perhaps, "Animal Farm" may be simply a fairy story, today it is a political satire with a good deal of point." "Animal Farm" has been subject to much comment in the decades since these early remarks. The pigs Snowball, Napoleon, and Squealer adapt Old Major's ideas into "a complete system of
Animal Farm (song) she's far from home," but in his fantasy on animal farm, "she's by [his] side." The singer then offers to "take [her] where real animals are playing," "on Animal Farm." When talking about "Animal Farm", Ray Davies said, "This was just me thinking everybody else's mad and we are all animals anyway - which is really the idea of the whole album."<ref name="33 and 1/3"></ref> "Animal Farm" has a folk feel, similarly to many other tracks on "The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society". Andy Miller wrote in his book, 33 and 1/3 book "Kinks' The Kinks Are the