How scary can one nerd be that you have to send your assassins all the way to Mexico to make sure he's killed?
>>920314
Trotsky had ungodly charisma, for one.
> this triggers the trotskyte
>>920314
pretty fucking scary
Why didn't anyone warn Trotsky about how bad his hair looked?
>>920314
Why do trostskytes like to depict him as opposed to Stalin regarding his dictatorialism? He's not the epitome of democracy...
>>920371
Just to confuse everyone I'm gonna fly this Trotsky flag and "Don't tread on me" at the same time in my yard
>>920359
Ms. Powers knows
>>920314
Would Trotsky had done a better job than Stalin in running the USSR?
>>921946
Even you could have done a better job.
>>921954
Not really. Let's face it. Russia after War Communism was pretty shit, and I think I'd be outmaneuvered in that clusterfuck of an environment.
>>921967
You need to have more confidence in your abilities and to stop doubting yourself too much. Ibet if you really put your mind to it, you'd be able to genocide more Ukrainians than old uncle Joe.
>>920371
That top hat really completes the image.
>>921544
Well, considering Nikita was the epitome of democracy compared to Stalin, every commie leader is the epitome of democracy compared to Stalin
>>920314
Trotsky was utterly irrelevant at that point. Killing him was just Stalin being a petty, sore winner.
>>921508
it looks great you cuck
>>922678
Ceaucescu m8
Trots are agents and tools and Stalin did nothing wrong.
>>922898
He did get rid of Ukrainians, which is pretty based.
>>922699
This.
If anything the assassination only made Trotsky more relevant in history
>>920314
>implying Stalin didnt do the right thing
>implying Memeno Trotsky would be a good leader
>implying he wouldnt get utterly raped by Hitler
>>920314
I don't think that even follows logically, but he certainly wasn't killed because he was "scary", but because he was an annoyance that tried to split the international communist movement with bourgeois idealism.
>>921954
>implying the conditions of the pre-WW2 didn't require the suspension of internationalist focus so that the bastion of world socialism could materially develop
>implying socialism in one country didn't in fact prevent the early collapse of the USSR by the hands of the Axis
>implying the fact that the internationalists failed to create successful revolutions outside of the Soviet periphery didn't itself prove that communist ideology needed to develop ideologically in the rest of the world while socialist economy needed to develop in the USSR, to be ready for when the people would awaken from their slumber
>implying that even if the USSR could send its troops to every country and install Soviets that this wouldn't be imperialism and counter-revolutionary
>implying Marxism should be idealist and not materialist
Trotsky would have signed the surrender of the USSR to Hitler desu
>>921544
Socialism is a bunch of cabals trying to butcher each other.
Daily reminder Oswald Mosley was secretly in league with Trotsky, while busy in Britain Mosley sent his wife at the time also a Labour (Socialist) MP to Turkey to meet with Leon Trotsky, as Trotsky describes in his diaries:
>In September 1930, about two or three months after the Webbs, Cynthia Mosley, the wife of the adventurer and daughter of the notorious Lord Curzon, visited me at Prinkipo. At that stage her husband was still attacking MacDonald “from the left”. After some hesitation I agreed to a meeting which, however, proved banal in the extreme. The “Lady” arrived with a female travelling companion, referred contemptuously to MacDonald, and spoke of her sympathies toward Soviet Russia.
>>923966
Sounds like capitalism.
And feudalism.
And all hitherto existing human societies.
>>923989
Eternal Anglo strikes again
>>924009
You can never trust him
>“Istanbul, 4th September, 1930
>“Dear Comrade Trotsky, I would like above all things to see you for a few moments. There is no good reason why you should see me as (1) I belong to the Labour Party in England who were so ridiculous and refused to allow you in, but also I belong to the ILP and we did our very best to make them change their minds, and (2) I am daughter of Lord Curzon who was Minister for Foreign Affairs in London when you were in Russia! On the other hand I am an ardent Socialist. I am a member of the House of Commons. I think less than nothing of the present Government. I have just finished reading your life which inspired me as no other book has done for ages. I am a great admirer of yours. These days when great men seem so very few and far between it would be a great privilege to meet one of the enduring figures of our age and I do hope with all my heart you will grant me that privilege. I need hardly say I come as a private person, not a journalist or anything but myself—I am on my way to Russia, I leave for Batum-Tiflis-Rostov-Kharkov and Moscow by boat Monday. I have come to Prinkipo this afternoon especially to try to see you, but if it were not convenient I could come out again any day till Monday. I do hope however you could allow me a few moments this afternoon. Yours fraternally, Cynthia Mosley.”
>>923989
BEADY
>>924042
ANGLO
>>920345
>>923816
>>923961
Shhh you're gonna trigger the Trotscum aka muh fallen prince, Orwell never lied: the ideology.
I used to be a Trot for years. Then I learned about Stalin, what actually took place under his reign, and what his policies were. And I've never looked back. Stalin had some excesses and mistakes, yet he was the most capable leader and the greatest STUDENT of Lenin (and never claimed to be more). I agree with his friend and comrade Molotov he was tired and shouldn't have continued past the XIX Party Congress but hey no man is perfect. He did the best he could and his death was a true loss for Soviet power.
Despite the fact the USSR remained progressive after his death, it became ideologically and economically weaker. A shame.
Seriously, Molotov's memoirs, J Arch Getty's work, and a variety of other works (not the conspiracy theory-tier Grover Furr, at least many of his works) will act immensely to changing people's minds about the idiot Trotsky.
>>924069
>devours Stalinist propaganda
>"guize I know the truff now xDDDD"
When will this Stalin meme die?
trotsky totally deserved it
kronstadt never forget
makhnovshchina never forget
>>921544
It lets people fantasize about what the USSR might have become had it not been run by a paranoid Machiavellian autocrat.
Personally I think he'd have been similarly brutal and he'd have triggered WW2 early because of his Permanent Revolution shtick, but he might have done a better job as a commander because he wouldn't have purged most of the veterans out of the military.
>>924069
So you used to be a moron, and you continued to be a moron, amazing.
>>920314
Leaving rivals alive is always a risk.
IIRC, before the third century, those who became emperor would typically banish the families of the last emperor to an island and have them assassinated.
>>926252
*roman emperor
