You didn't understand Animal Farm in your teens? It's the world's most unsubtle allegory.
Even though animal farm is definitely anti-USSR and AES, I don’t understand how you read it and have the takeaway be that the farmers are the good guys.
The proper takeaway is to let minority groups (other farm animals) have representation in government
Which Soviets have no problem with, even before the USSR was founded, for example in first Sovnarkom of RSFSR on 17 seats 5 were members of minorities.
You didn't understand Animal Farm in your teens? It's the world's most unsubtle allegory.