'Animal Farm'

The thing about leftists and socialists, no one is more critical of themselves and their comrades. Good ones care as much about their principles and carrying out those principles based on socialism in his purest, unadulterated form than anyone. They deserve credit.

George Orwell is the greatest of these types. Always critical and always questioning. He was never happy unless it was right.

With Animal Farm, Orwell achieved the greatest creation in the history of allegory. It's a clever and meaningful story especially poignant for the Russians. It's a scathing review of Joe Stalin's regime as he starved 12 million of his own people -- mostly peasants -- to death. It notes every pitfall with a sincere desire to make things right and to take Stalin and Co. to task.