Orwell's effective use of animals as characters

In Animal Farm Orwell uses animals as characters, he does a very good job at doing this. Orwell makes up a completely new story using real life events that have happened and creates a new perspective from the animals point of view and substituted their actual problems with the ones that we have had in the past.

For example, the name of their manor was "Animal Farm" and what it represents in real life is Russia. Or when he used Napoleon, a pig in Animal Farm, to replace Stalin in real life. There are many examples of how he replaced a great deal of real life events or people with the places and characters in his book. Another example is Snowball (another pig) he was represented by Trotsky, or Farmer Jones who was actually Czar Nicholas II from Russia.

Orwell's effective use of animals as characters and his use of his imagination to create all of this is amazing. I think he did an alright job on creating the book, now I do have to say that this is not one of my favorite books, but it was a good book.