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If this construction of the windmill represents the Five-Year-Plan of Stalin to industrialize, the breakdown of the windmill after a hard work of the animals would represent the problems of industrialization. The problems of industrialization involved in the Five-Year Plan was that there were peasants who lacked experienced, and lacked basic education of training. Therefore, the Five-Year Plan was not in a good progression. This way, the destruction of the windmill also shows how the animals who worked on the construction were inexperienced, since this was their first time ever to build something. Maybe, Stalin's greed to industrialize fast would also be a parallel idea to Napoleon's to use a better ans more efficient way to save energy for the farm. -Michelle Oh