Squealer (Animal Farm) wrote, "All people who are morally sound have known since about 1931 that the Russian régime stinks". Squealer, as the chief propagandist of the regime, is prominent in the story and Orwell defines the path down which small lies lead to bigger lies. Orwell regarded propaganda as a feature of all modern governments but especially prominent in totalitarian regimes, which depended on it. In "The Prevention of Literature" (1946) he described 'organised lying' as a crucial element of totalitarian states. 3. Animal Farm by George Orwell Squealer (Animal Farm) Squealer is a fictional character, a pig, in George Orwell's "Animal
Lynchings of Benjamin and Mollie French he was met by two masked men who pulled pistols on him and told him to keep quiet. Wilshire shut the door in their faces and tried to escape out the front, but he was seized by six to eight armed masked men, who ordered him, under penalty of death, to go with them to the jail. There six or eight more men were waiting. Wilshire obeyed them and opened the jail door, next opened the inside door to the cell room, and finally, Wilshire opened the door of the cell where Benjamin and Mollie French lay. They were sound