<Li> Squealer--A small, white, fat porker who serves as Napoleon's second - in - command and minister of propaganda, holding a position similar to that of Vyacheslav Molotov . </Li> <Li> Minimus--A poetic pig who writes the second and third national anthems of Animal Farm after the singing of "Beasts of England" is banned . </Li> <Li> The piglets--Hinted to be the children of Napoleon and are the first generation of animals subjugated to his idea of animal inequality . </Li> <Li> The young pigs--Four pigs who complain about Napoleon's takeover of the farm but are quickly silenced and later executed, the first animals killed in Napoleon's farm purge . Based on the Great Purge of Grigori Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev, Nikolai Bukharin, and Alexei Rykov . </Li>

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