Propoganda in Animal Farm

The misinformation that the pigs spread around animal farm is astouding. I'm thinking the animals must be quite stupid indeed if they believe it, and I wonder if the propoganda in the book bears any resemblance to real-life propoganda. Where the Russian commoners truly decieved so much? While I suppose that this is a possibility, I think that the propoganda within Animal Farm bears more resemblance to the propoganda floating around North Korea. Honestly, it just seems ridiculous what Kim Jong-Il tells his people, and if they stomache such lies, I suppose thats just as bad as what the animals in the book believe. Then again, the people of North korea where raised on such lies (or many of them were. Similarly, only a select few animals at the end of the book even remembered the revolution (just Clover, Old Benjamin, the Raven and some of the pigs if I'm not mistaken).