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"An amusing anti-Stalinist novel, Animal Farm has been censored or suppressed in many countries including Russia, Hungary, U.S.A, in certain Islamic countries, and unofficially in Cuba. The story itself is quite interesting, a farm of animals starts a revolution and the animals take control. At first the creatures govern themselves freely, and equally, but soon the pigs become more dictatorial and corrupt. The story ends with the pigs turning into the humans that they once loathed. Because of the obvious symbolism in this novel, it was immediately banned in Communist Russia and Hungary, (it isn’t anymore.) In Cuba, “there are no banned books.” However, Cuban customs officials don’t seem to take a liking to this book and it has a habit of not appearing on bookshelves where it should be. The Islamic countries have a completely different reason for banning this work. Religion. In Islam, it is forbidden to eat pork. Since the main characters in Animal Farm are pigs that act like humans, the book has been banned. That said, there is one small catch: nowhere in the Koran (the Islamic bible,) does it even mention that the images or likenesses of pigs are forbidden, just the meat. This fact does not stop the authorities from seizing this book as well as likenesses of the Muppet’s Miss. Piggy. For some reason, the original introduction to the book was found to be ‘inappropriate’ in the U.S.A and the book was banned for a while before a new one was made. To most people, this is an enjoyable read and an interesting satire of history."