bernardo bertolucci hates fascism so he makes all his fascist characters batshit crazy murderers.
later on in the movie he kidnaps a little kid just so he can have sex in front of him, then when he's done, he giant swings him into a wooden pole and breaks his neck.
Never seen the movie and I'm not big on cats, but I do speak spanish. Basically, the main guy is talking about how communism appeals to emotion but that it is dangerous. He points out that cats appeal to emotion as well, so they should be destroyed in order to demonstrate what should be done to communism.