Trotsky and Lenin were allies. Trotsky became engaged in political argument with the bureaucrat Stalin over his twisting of Lenin's statement about the organization of soviet government in 1924, and was forced to flee Russia. A Stalinist campaign against the "Trotskyites" from then through the show trials ended with Trostsky being assass…
Trotsky and Lenin were allies. Trotsky became engaged in political argument with the bureaucrat Stalin over his twisting of Lenin's statement about the organization of soviet government in 1924, and was forced to flee Russia. A Stalinist campaign against the "Trotskyites" from then through the show trials ended with Trostsky being assassinated (with an ax embedded in his skull) by a Soviet assassin in Mexico in 1940.
Trotsky and Lenin were allies. Trotsky became engaged in political argument with the bureaucrat Stalin over his twisting of Lenin's statement about the organization of soviet government in 1924, and was forced to flee Russia. A Stalinist campaign against the "Trotskyites" from then through the show trials ended with Trostsky being assassinated (with an ax embedded in his skull) by a Soviet assassin in Mexico in 1940.
Thank you for the correction TC, I should have remembered it was Stalin not Lenin
Been a long time since any of us were reading Bolshevik history.
Yes, it certainly has, in my case going on fifty years - sadly.