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    • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      If Trotsky died in 1922 he would've been an immortal hero, an untouchable legend who helped establish the Petrograd Soviet in 1905, steadfast ally of Lenin who knew the Bolsheviks were the only hope for revolution despite being a Menshevik himself, genius organizer who took a ragtag group of disillusioned recruits and turned them into the magnificent Red Army that beat back the Whites and an international coalition of dozens atop wood-burning trains.

        • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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          3 years ago

          He threw a fit that Stalin became chairman and waged a protracted low level civil war against Stalin for over a decade, calling the Soviet Union the time's equivalent for "red fash" and allying himself with fascists to take down the USSR if he couldn't personally rule it. He became a far left communist who said that socialism in one country was impossible, and if you weren't constantly in revolution you were no communist at all. He was later assassinated in Mexico by the NKVD under Stalin's orders after Frida Kahlo stopped fucking him because she became a Stalinist. His followers today sell newspapers.