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This whole paragraph is an allusion to the Great Purge, which led to the death of millions of people in USSR. Great Purge was intended to eliminate all the opponents (as well as potential opponents) of Stalin. Not only did the Great Purge kill a lot of Party members (the pigs in the book), it killed a lot of workers and peasants as well as they were accused of being Trotsky-ists, followers of Trotsky, and followers of Snowball in the book. The Great Purge, which also had public show trials, where people were hanged in public, are very similar to the trials put by Napoleon. By slaughtering the people in front of them, Napoleon and his party made sure nothing like this would ever happen again. And many of the confession were fabricated through tortures and other cruel actions. Through the "Great Purge", Napoleon made sure he is an absolute dictator of the Animal Farm.