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Apr 2018
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Animal Farm | Chapter 7 | Effortless Eng...

Aj Hoge
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https://EffortlessEnglishClub.com The Effortless English Book Club continues. AJ teaches you chapter 7 of George Orwell's classic book. In this chapter, Napoleon uses his power to brutally terrify the animals. Mass executions. Continued lies and propaganda. Public confessions of thought crimes. Re-writing of history. Paranoia. The inevitable end state of Marxism has arrived.

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