Leon Trotsky - Stalin's Arch Enemy Documentary
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Trotsky's writings are still published by Pathfinder Press.
Where abouts did you guys mention Trotsky was born as Lev Davidovich Bronstein?
Note that geographically Odessa is not in Crimea but in the southern Ukraine on the black sea west of the Crimea penisula
Odesa is not part of Crimea !
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my great grandfather was trotsky's childhood friend when they lived in kherson. trotsky visited him in NY shortly before his assassination in mexico
What was Trotsky like?
@@joecurran2811he was a fuckin' mass murderer.
He tried to ski, but failed miserably
That's incredible. What did your great grandfather say about him? Trotsky must have been a loyal person, valuing friendships made in childhood and maintaining them into old age.
@@rachelmacgowan86 unfortunately, as per my grandfather, he was quite reticent about it - a few shrugs and head nods, but nothing more. thanks for asking though
One of those Historic figures that everyone has heard of, but most don't know many details. Incredibly interesting to learn about!
Agreed
There's a Russian lang multi-parter online - Netflix, I think. It is very good - makes Trotsky out to be an idiot, plays up his adventurism, vanity and so on. It invents a lot of fairly inconsequential stuff to bring out his character flaws - which had true believers frothing at the proverbial. You can't get a better recommendation than a Trot's scoff.
@@alep_bet Could be! Whatever, let the leftist civil wars rage.
@@damianbylightning6823 It's shite.
similarly, those who may speak of socialism or communism or critical race theory, yet haven't a clue of what they actually are ...
Trotsky helped to breed and raise the bear, and it ate him.
Fair comment! Unfortunately that very dangerous “bear” “ate” many millions of other people also.
What Is missing from this docu is the fact that no mention is made of the hardships and brutality employed by the 14 imperialist armies that invaded The young Soviet state. Stalin is often viewed as a representative of the Russian revolution, of communism, of the revolutions in the 20th century. Yet nobody wants to analyze why he came to power, what were the material conditions that facilitated it and the damage that he did to the future history of humanity.
Long live trotsky and Lenin!
Long live Marxism!!
@@rotcivlovosin9414 Why would they want to engage in an actual factual discussion when they can engage in near hysterical levels of hyperbole, about a subject that none of them knows anything about. Because it's easier for them than to address the inequities of their own ideology. Rather than critique figures from history for their successes and failures, they turn them into Marxist versions of Jason Voorhees, butchering defenceless capitalists with a bloody hammer and sickle. Watch the amount of ill-informed and over-emotional shite your post receives in the coming hours and days. (And mine, I hope!).
Yep + damn near almost everyone around him, and it seems like at least twice so you'd think that everyone in the 2nd cleansing would've obviously knew about + some even viewed 1st hand the false accusations + that Stalin would eventually turn back toward them . So I don't understand that once the mass executions kinda slowed down and Stalin kinda laid off for a minute why everyone else + their mommas weren't on the 1st thing smoking outta the USSR
@@rotcivlovosin9414 Or they can just leave drunken, impenetrable gibberish. See Robert below. Jesus, Finnegan's Wake is easier to understand.
I'm a little disappointed that the Kronstadt rebellion wasn't detailed, as it shows Trotsky at his most brutal. The slaughter of these men, who had very bravely voiced their concerns about bolshevism, mark one of the key events necessary to understand this man.
I have learned more from this channel than just about any place else and I truly appreciate it and you.
@@ulisesjorge 😁😅🤣 you're funny!👍🧡
shame most of it is liberal propaganda
We in Russia have an expression "You lie like Trotsky." It is said when a person, despite the fact that his lie is obvious to everyone, continues to lie.
Good one
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@@kimchi2780 i’ve read some of Trotsky‘s works they are filled with lies I don’t think the comparison is false! And for the record there’s an awful lot of lies spread about Trotsky trying to elevate him into a historical hero status for the socialist communist apologists! The conflict between Stalin and Trotsky was personal but what Trotsky did during the Civil War was horrendous and worthy of war crimes status.
I wonder what it means if you lie like Stalin? Is that where you lie and anyone who calls you out 'disappears?' Or perhaps is that more like, 'lie like Putin.' If you lie like Kruschev you pay them off to buy into the lie?
I know if you 'lie like Trump' whoever calls you out for lying must immediately themselves be called out for lying.
You could have some fun with that. Leaders suck.
A Stalinist lie obviously.
Ramon Mercader never broke into the house, he was invited in as he had an appointment with Trotsky .
That is what I thought too.
Nice to see someone who actually knows history-and NOT how to generate "Click-Bait"!
He wanted to see Trotskys rabbits!
Yeah, such mistake at the start of a video is not giving me much hopes with the rest...
Yes I believe from my studies, many years ago, the assassin pretended to be a sympathiser to the cause in order to attack Trotsky.
I find it interesting that the name he is known by was from a passport he had obtained from one of the guards in prison . He just went with the name and kept it for the rest of his life.
Yes. They all used fake names/passports in order to evade the tsar's secret police. Lenin's real name was Ulyanov and Stalin's real name was a long unpronounceable one. I can't even spell it. In Russian the name Stalin is supposed to mean man of steel.
Of course Stalin also adopted his name as a pseudonym.
@@tjsbbi yeah he was Cobber
@@Jaffacall3251 koba, sorry for nitpicking.
A lot of revolutionaries do that, it's called a "nom de guerre" or "name of war", a pseudonym used during time of strife to protect family and friends. Pretty much all revolutionaries do this. Compared to a "nom de plume" which is a name used for writing, aka a pen name.
This is just marvelous. Especially in these (still) hard times we are going thru, having a quality channel like this with quality content one can rely on is a real gem. Thank you.
So the "russian "revolution more Coup d'Etat" was not only Russian, also Ukrainan with Trotsky, Georgian with Stalin Polish with Dzerrsinski
@@louisecorchevolle9241 The Soviets were councils of workers, soldiers and peasants. The provisional government was just that provisional. A situation of dual power. Not a coup.
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These are still hard times? You just watched a video detailing the horrors of the Russian revolution and the unsurpassed evil of Stalin, and you can claim we have it tough? No. We're living life on silken pillows compared to any other time in the history of the planet. You're right that this video is marvelous -- in part because it makes that point so graphically.
What hard times? If you mean the Coof, it was only as hard as you made it. I never wore a mask, didn’t “socially distance”, didn’t lock myself up, and never got sick. 👍🏻
I love this channel so much. I wish my history classes in university were even half this detailed. Keep up the good work!
University history classes are replete with omissions. Then the omissions filled with daily shifting winds of revisionism. Famacide.
I know the lives of Trotsky and Stalin are forever intertwined, but I would have liked to hear a little more about the former, and a little less about the latter. Interesting though. Good job.
That is insane, I learned all of this in 10th grade public school.
Teachers are just there for their check.
...and it's only HALF the story!!!
Read my comment above...
Quite understimated figure in history. Was on point when he foreshadowed how and why USSR would fall apart. No to mention his role in revolution and civil war.
Because his rol in the civil war is covered by shame and crimes. It stain the image of idealistic hero, the friend of the justice and the savior of working classes. This period expose his hungry for power and show he is capable to do anything to obtain it.
He is an genocidal maniac whose name wasn't Leon Trocky. He, Lenjin, and others who have killed tens of millions of Russians and others in the USSR.
@@gabrielmarceloecheverriadi2286 I agree that Trotsky's role in the civil war was covered by crimes but by no means it was out of place. I hate violence but I think its fair to say that without Trotsky's iron rule, it would have been impossible for the reds to win. The whites were getting support from the west and they had more organized and well armed troops. Trotsky did not had the luxury of passion and cliche heroism. He needed to find a way to surivive. Keep the fire of revolution burning in Russia. And at the end he did find a way to achieve that, it was not pretty but it worked and many people overlook that. If it wasn't for Trotsky there would have been no Soviet Union. And that is a fact. Ofcourse I am not saying it was only thanks to him but I am saying that his role was crucial for the survival of communism in Russia. His victory was later on stolen from him by no one other than Stalin but thats a entirely different topic.
@@user-dk8nt4dy8h Very well articulated brother.
@@ianwatson5605 The working class has no saviors but itself. Trotsky gave his life for the cause of the working class. He speaks to and for me.
I learned Russian history in secondary school. This channel has unearthed what my teachers did not cover. I wish I could sit for the examination today.
From Tanzania.
Trotsky was always devoted to the working class and was one of the greatest orators to ever speak in front of the masses. His "History of the Russian revolution" is an amazing read. One of my heroes, for sure. The Russian revolution can't really be understood without reading his works.
He wasn't devoted to the working class that's ridiculous. He was a filthy communist who was an idealist, but still stupid enough to get himself killed. He was just like all the other Jewish bolchevics Yes, he might've been smarter, but he definitely wasn't his cunning as Stalin
I have been waiting for biography on Leon Trotsky. I am pretty sure that I have watched them all ...... those biographies only Trotsky was missing in my playlists. Thank you, thank you very much for this very good biography and very quality videos thanks for sharing and greetings from Slovenia.
I strongly recommend you to read his autobiography and his History of the October Revolution.
Nobody does it better the the English . Thank you for your documentary I enjoyed this very much. Many people have forgotten him.
Revolution betrayed and fascism, what it is and how to defeat it, also history of the revolution, great books
why don't you just pick up books written by Trotsky or others who wrote about him. There are hundreds. It is important, however, to note the political angle of each. Good luck!!
@@stevenyourke7901: A classic distortion of the facts and his character.
An outstanding historical documentary, thank you for putting so much time and effort to assemble it in such great detail.
This is only my second video but already becoming a big fan of this channel.
Thank you for sharing this guy and I will be always on this channel 😘😘😘
I've been waiting patiently for this video.
Trotsky was the original "Globe-Trotter"! I have to say that I giggled, throughout this doc about Trotsky. I lost count of the many places Trotsky ran-to, and how many Continents and Countries he was arrested-in? I think Trotsky has earned the "World Record" for 'most travelled & arrests', for a "globe-trotter", during his time in History. If I were his wife, I'd have gone, "insane".
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Trotsky and his wife (and his son Lev) were committed revolutionaries who were willing to take on any hardship for the cause they followed until their death. Trotsky felt that his writings were vital in helping new generations of revolutionaries make sense of the enigma that the USSR had become as well as Stalin and a massively changed and convoluted world situation.
And he kept at it even as Stalin murdered almost his entire family (both of his sons, both of his daughters if you count one driven to suicide, his ex-wife) and almost anyone associated with him, from former leaders of the Bolshevik party (like Joffe, Smilga, Kamenev), to young left-oppositionists, to even just his secretarial staff.
You will be hard-pressed to find any other figure in history who was persecuted with such extreme zeal and tremendous material effort-all for his writings. Pretty much no exiled politician in history was ever considered this much of a threat to his opponents, especially when you factor in that Trotsky himself had almost no material resources and no foreign power ever sponsored him.
Giggled huh
When I was a kid I loved Monty Python(still do) and one entire episode of the circus was a parody about Trotsky and that was introduction to his life and work.
Very interesting, informative and worthwhile video.
Mum told us of a 'Civics' instructor who tried to chivvy the class into chanting "Glory, Glory, Glorioski, We Love Lenin & Trotsky"- then collapsed in tears when not a single student would comply...
What country was this?
Really great video. Good work!
Lev Davidovich Bronstein "Trotsky", one of the leaders of the 1917 bolshevik revolution in Russia, gave a resounding speech at a workers' meeting around 1920. With his presentation he confidently captured the interest of his listeners, and after making sure that no one dared to object, he encouraged those present to come to the platform next to him and refute what was said. There was great silence in the space, but suddenly there was movement in the crowd, and then a worker stepped onto the platform with a walking stick in his hand.
"Comrades! See this walking stick? This will tell you the story of the Russian revolution. Before the revolution, the country was ruled by aristocrats. This is indicated by the button on the end of the walking stick. The iron on the other end of the stick represents the convicts. The center of the stick is the symbolic place of the workers and the peasants. Now I turn the stick around. See, the revolution has happened, comrades. The aristocrats are now below, the convicts are now above - but your place had not changed..."
The worker was executed a few days later...
bullshit
Oh, no!
Nasty and sad
Of the few biography channels I watch, the rest are too incomplete. These are in depth and we'll put together in all aspects. Great work once again thank you!!
A very good video with accessible explanations of very complex ideologies and personalities. History is always subject to hindsight and release of new information and it is impossible today to truly "live" the life of people in that situation and time. Like many who changed history Trotsky is impossible to tag as an arch villain or hero.
Naaaaaah....Trotsky is responsible for a lot of deaths. He helped promote Leninism, which was frankly just as bad as Stalinism. Oh, and as a cherry on top, he had an affair with Frieda Kahlo, while living on her husband's dime.
I don't know that "arch villain" means, but Trotsky was a villain. Definitely a villain.
Hero LOL. Villian for sure.
Unlike Stalin, who was just a bastard
“Trotsky organised a strike against his teacher” damn, if only I had that idea...
It was glorious to see Trotsky lose the Soviet Polish War.
Thanks for the great history lesson!
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Great work! Trotsky was always a fascinating figure.
Bolshevism led to the spread of communism and the cold war, death of millions, he wasn't even russian, and those from his tribe are trying to start the same style of rule today, all the same people, beady eyed glass wearing cunts.
Great treatise on Lev et al. I will check out your other videos now.
Corrections: Trotsky did not oppose the NEP he just wanted more planning alongside the NEP. In early 1920 it was Lenin and not Trotsky who opposed a future NEP. Also the labour camps of 1919 and early to mid 20s were much smaller and vastly different from the gulags of the 30s(living conditions were not like gulags but more similar to normal prisons).
Also Stalin wasn't a known contender in early 20s and someone like Zinoviev and Kamenev were more likely than him to head the state. Trotsky was offered the position of deputy chairman of sovnarkom multiple times in 1922(March/April and September).
Also Trotsky was never in the "far-left" of the party, until 1921 and 1922 workers opposition made up the far left of the party and even in the 1923 left opposition there were members originally from the group of democratic centralism which existed until 1921.
GOOD VIDEO , WELL RESEARCHED.
You might try doing some actual research yourself if you think this is an accurate portrayal of history.
Stalin has no lasting ideological influence. Trotsky is the surviving legacy and influence.
he was a murderous bastard...just a little less than stalin...which doesn`t say much
I believe Trotsky was the ideology, Stalin was Communism in practice.
He still has admirers and followers. in Russia he is still well admired by workers.
Other places throughout the world i think will also have admirers.
Not everyone has full knowledge of Stalins activities deeds and misdeeds.
Therefore there will be people whose history admires him.
He laid the groundwork for the true holders of power in a communist state. Only the useful idiots and the intelligentsia that will be purged soon after a revolution would look to Trotsky for any political advice. Stalin is who's playbook you you'd follow to rule.
Stalin will forever live in history
Trotsky is just as bloody as Stalin I thinks
I really liked this program in it's edited length while Trotsky is a true modern nomadic.
So much information successfully packaged into a spellbinding narrative, Good job!
My compliments on a magnificent, comprehensive & straight-forward presentation of the man known as Leon Trotsky, his life, his goals & his motivations. Trotsky & Stalin were actually two ruthless, brutal dictators who were pursuing basically the same ends but by different means (personal power versus the ideal of The Revolution). Trotsky's demonstrated heartlessness (the army's blocking units, for example) belied his so-called "humane" face. While the end result would have been pretty much the same, I suspect Trotsky's ruthlessness might have been a bit less blatant than that of Stalin. A million & one thanks for presenting this highly educational video.
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Powerful, involved, educational ...a world class series
Thank you for this informative video.
Was recently hoping for a doc on Trotsky.. then sure enough 🙏🏻
Is your icon Baldwin the Leper?
@@zenodotusofathens2122 yes! 🙏🏻
@@MithradatesVIEupator only a history nerd like me would know this
@@zenodotusofathens2122 or someone who watched the movie lol
@@eg4848 Actually I am a history need. I've been studying history all of my life and I'm an old dude. I may not know about engineering, medicine, or how to bake French bread but history is my thing. 😂🤣
It would be great to do a whole episode on the Cheka and "Iron Felix" Dzerzhinsky. When you heard a knock your door in the night, you knew you were in trouble.
Look up the Sidney Street Siege. You will find something interesting on the Cheka.
@@EmpowerSportsMagazine Thanks! I'll check it out.
Look up Peterss, Sidney Street Siege, Cheka.
Apologies as my phone can't do the line above the e in Jekabs, which was his first name.
@@EmpowerSportsMagazine No problem at all. Thanks!.
There is a statue to Iron Felix in Moscow. The only Pole Russia liked.
Man .. even Lenin knew Stalin was a danger to Soviet people, but was too late ..
Apparently, Lenin changed his mind about Stalin's suitability for leadership, after Stalin had an abusive freak-out at Lenin's secretary, when she refused to put him through on the phone.
Stalin was a animal who should have hung
Lenin, and Trotsky were just Stalin Light. Evil fucks that should have been aborted.
@@papamiller8644 stalin is a hero who doubled the life expectancy of russians as well as literature and caloric intakes trotsky got what he had coming he worked along side faceist Japan and nazi Germany against the ussr for self gain
@@ANTHONY-vg1be are you sure about this. Lysenkoism.....
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Shaggy-Leo, while in NY worked as journalist for the red paper ''The Daily Worker'',
& appeared occasionally as an extra on the Broadway scene as his favorite negative character :
the Jewish loanshark.
That's strange.. He was a Jew after all.. Same like Zinoviev and Kamenev.. Same as Lenin's grandfather.. Same like Karl Marx.. Same like Klara Zetikn husband Osip Zetkin and her best friend Rosa Luxemburg.. Same like 90% of Mensheviks.. Funny how 2-4% of Jews in Russia managed to get 80% of seats in soviets.. Wonder if Stalin noticed the pattern..
“Lenin returned to the capital.” Well, the Germans returned him, in a sealed train, like a plague bacillus. They knew what they were about.
Huge mistake… communist Russia turned out to be a greater threat than Czarist ever would have been
Well it's him or the cuckold tsar Nicholas and this was predetermined by the people whom the tsars had forced into serfdom since their births, and what was decided was that a Tsar would never be allowed to regain power.
Then the USSR cured Germany of nazism
I recommend the book "The Assassination of Trotsky". It goes deeply into his death, which is much more complex than presented here. Otherwise this was a very well done video.
Assassinations, by definition and deliberately, are always complex .
@@leopoldmsemburi7551 I see nothing in the definition of assassination that has or implies the word "complex".
Who's the author of that book?
its a cool word tho
secret attack often for political reasons a plot to assassinate ,where it might boil down to a simple plan its complex as fuk son
I bought Trotsky's account of the revolution from Waterstones when I was eighteen, I'm now 43 and it has remained unread.
History teacher here in Beijing. Subscribed!
He escaped the Siberia gulag not Once but Twice?!? Insane
Thanks for the video. I have to say socialism does not work without democracy. It is true democracy that levels the playing field so different groups and classes are recognized as legitimate and no violence is necessary or called for.
Are democracy, socialism, communism, theocracy or fascism possible without fundamental capitalism.
The Democratic Labour party in Germany voted for war in world war !
That would be nice if only the capitalists didn't send fascist bands to defeat the trade unions.
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Democracy and capitalism are fundamentally opposed to one another.
Enjoyed it worth the watch
Let’s not forget that Trotsky had quite a few soldiers sentenced to death while he was in charge of the army. Obviously that was normal in those days and Trotters wasn’t shy about imposing it. However, I remember when I was a teenager we would often wear T shirts with a picture of LT on the front as if he deserved the peace prize. Funny old life.
The American Bourgeois Democratic Police show no such pacifism. Peace Prizes go to such US Imperialist Bourgeois war mongers like Henry Kissinger and Barak Obama. Le Duc Tho to his ever lasting credit never accepted his from the Democratic Socialist "Imperialist" Norway.
Indeed, I didn’t know LT was also an advocate of the red terror, army blocking units either.
Yep. Kinda like kids wearing Che Guevara shirts not knowing what a cowardly Castro thug he was. ‘The Motorcycle Diaries’ Ha. Never been on a motorcycle in his entire life.
@@drstrangelove4998 They were red terror advocates, no exception.
Ah yes, don't kill, when in a war, that's what makes you worthy of respect? Like, think before you seethe.
One of the best history channels around!
Its shallow and misses out the hidden funding for this Russian Revolution. Millions given to Trotsky to destroy the Russian Czarist Russia. Jacob Schiff was behind this funding and he funded around 300 Jews who left NY on the same ship. The War with Poland and how it impacted on the rest of Europe had Communism won the war there was nothing to stop the Communists from marching onto Berlin and Europe. First WW was more brutal than WW2 and wiped out generations of youth there would have been no armies left to stop them taking the rest of Europe Berlin and Paris. Anoying to think there are more of this shallow interpritation of what the Russian Revolution was about. Trotsky was a SOB and no loss to humanity. He deserved what he got in the end. No love for Stalin but Trotsky had he lived would have no doubt been more trouble for the World. May he burn in hell!
@@helenegan1079 Just more slanders and bullshit.
@@helenegan1079 Evidence for your claims are what?
Recomiendo la lectura de los libros : Stalin, historia y critica de una leyenda negra (Domenico Losurdo), Stalin insólito (Ricardo E. Rodríguez) y Otra mirada sobre Stalin (Ludo Martens)
Very well done.
I would suggest that everyone visit the Trotsky house/museum in Coyaocan, CDMX.
A remarkable piece of history.
always look forward to uploads from the Peoples Profiles - would you consider doing a biography on Cecil Rhodes
More power to the people
I love. It Is. Tomorrow's
Peoples of today. Will rise
Fantastic documentary on a fascinating and important figure
A brutal man met a brutal end....no surprise there....of course Stalin was even worse.
Exactly fifty minutes, delightful
I wish you would get more into what motivated Trotsky and made him tick, along with the events of the Revolution and his infamous feud with Stalin. It seems more like this is all glossed over, things are presented matter-of-factly with little detail. I want a look into this mans life not a chronological record of events, such as XYZ happening here on this date. I want to know *why* it happened and what were the factors that led to certain decisions being made.
Could really benefit from going more in-depth.
You should do the work since it interests you.
I remember working and reading about Leon Trotsky in History at college. Stalin considered him as his enemy. Some of the cities that are mentioned in here, are now in Ukraine.
Very interesting video. A small correction: Odessa is not on the Crimea (1:48).
Isn’t Odessa on the Black Sea ? And a port city ?
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Yes, Odessa is on the Black Sea.
Yes, it is a port city.
No, it is not on the Crimea.
Yes, honey-- feeney, you can check it on Google Maps, please report back to me :)
Crimea is a peninsula, Odessa is a city, not the same
Stalin may not have been intelligent regarding economics, political theory, or military command, but he was undeniably a genius regarding power politics within a bureaucracy
Lucky. Faults in committee structure allowed one without, like you said, vast intelligence that a leader requires. The man was never tipped for success, and if not for faults of opposition and Lenin early death he’d of been a nobody.
@@ryanfinnerty6239 I disagree, Stalin was a master of the word behind someone's back. In a region with a history as brutal as the Russian Empire, it was always going to be Stalin.
@@miniflem1 teenagers in secondary schools are also good at talking behind backs. Some props for him allowing his mediocre political ability to be underrated so heavily by his colleagues however
@@ryanfinnerty6239 Stalin knew to keep his mouth shut, Trotsky couldn't shut up. Apparently this was the initial reason for their dislike of each other.
@@miniflem1 chalk and cheese. Good man bad man smart man dumb man
Could you make videos on the German and Soviet generals of WW2.Some are so interesting.
I freakin love this channel.
Most revolutions devour their founders!
Oh yeah? Tell it to Fidel! HaHaHaHaHa!
Michael Collins would be an interesting profile to do 🇮🇪
This, absolutely this.
Dewfitiely. I look forward to seeing his life here.
Which one, the Irish Republican Army military leader or the American astronaut who died about a week and a half ago?
@@raymondjelich185 Why not both?
@@raymondjelich185 its pretty obvious which one right?
It is so sad to know that the assassin was once a dedicated student admirer of Trotsky.
@@aweeg0yfromtheemeraldisle341 Yokel.
@@miniflem1 Leo, Is Molly still with us?
@@brianstockwell4069 Gladyougetthereference.
The King is always slain by his own courtiers
you can never be left enough comrade
It would be more in accord with historical reality to call Trotsky Stalin's "arch-rival". Trotsky was also a ruthless and murderous totalitarian. Read his book on terror, for instance.
In the Trotsy home/museum in Mexico City they show that the assasin was aguest in the fortrwss who was being shown a bewspper article by Trorsky when hw did the murder.. There was no way to break in...
A disgusting fight between an intellectual mass murderer and an ordinary uneducated mass murderer. Strangely the brutality of the ordinary criminal prevailed.
Trotsky, although indirectly, was one of the pioneer of the WW2 and reason of Hitler’s coming to power. Marx, Trotsky, Yagoda etc not only were at the root of destroying empires and societies but also they screwed up the world for ever. Sad part is that due to them hundred of millions people were murdered.
@@markdean1984 The Empires of the Earth, that you seem to weep for, have caused just as much chaos and death as any attempt at Communism. As Trotsky was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1929, I fail to see how he can be blamed for the rise of Hitler more than the leaders of France, America and Britain, who undermined German attempts at Democracy and then appeased Hitler for years.
As such, I find that your fantasy claim can be dismissed as bollocks. Trotsky predicted World War 2 and turned out to be right, how that makes him a 'pioneer' of the conflict I can't say, unless you're suggesting that adolf should have given anything he wanted. We wouldn't be thinking that, would we?
@@miniflem1 interesting. My reply to you has been deleted. I’m not gonna write it again. Also the truth and PC don’t mix together
@@markdean1984 PC or common human decency? I'm also not going to use you as my benchmark for what constitutes the 'truth'.
@@miniflem1 there is only one truth. Trotsky was one the biggest criminal of the 20th century. He, Marx, Yagoda, Kaganovich just few, because the list is much bigger, we’re the worst mass murderers in the history of the world. That’s a fact and it doesn’t matter how much cover up is done, or internet erasing, with a bit of research the truth is still there.
Very interesting thanks 😊
So fucking evils
@@barbiewert7182 So terribly, terribly 'evils'.
It’s interesting to consider what if Trotsky had come to power instead of Stalin, would things have been different? Trotsky was incredibly ruthless and cold and had a huge ego, he hated the Kulaks just as much as Stalin and had no problem violently suppressing dissent as seen in the Kronstant rebellion. He was a stickler for Marxist theory and certainly wouldn’t have gone for any such notions as ‘socialism in one country’ - and likely would have pushed hard for global revolution. He was particularly unlikeable figure and unable to play a political game where forging of alliances was key. Would things have been any different, not by much - maybe Stalins megalomania would have been replaced by ideological resolve to forge international proletarian revolution at any costs? It’s hard to see he wouldn’t have been removed at some stage, unless he had Stalin shot - perhaps making way for another leader ?
If only Stalin applied the same moxie that he displayed in taking out Trotsky to taking care of Hitler, then possibly several millions of Russians wouldn't have been slaughtered in WW2. Stalin and Trotsky seem to be estranged brothers, with their jagged edges complimenting each others contrasting qualities.
Good timing to hear this info during Russia-Ukraine war...background history...i wish it could have been presented a little slower...i had to stop many times to note dates and travel.
Here is also a video about Tortskys last book that was not completed until 2016 czcams.com/video/DS8s6j5gVEo/video.html
I wonder how the Soviet union would’ve turned out with Stalin dead and Leon Trotsky the leader
More than likely 60 million Christians would have been killed instead of 40 million Christians. It is an interesting hypothesis though, in that Bronstein was the darling of global central bankers and intellectuals, whereas Stalin, although initially lauded by global leftists, eventually became a enemy to the elitist globalists and bankers when they started to view him as a paranoid thug who began to isolate himself and distrust everybody (which meant mass purges and executions of party members), especially the international elites. There are those that speculate that internationalist elite's actually wanted Hitler to defeat Stalin in the East and get rid of him before the Western powers would then get rid of Hitler. Who knows if that has any merit or not?
@@jackprecip5389 just a bunch of rubish. Stalin was an evil killer, but he didn't kill 40 million christians. The correct number is about 10 million. Where did you get 40 million from? Please provide a source.
@@jackprecip5389 albert pyke and 3 world wars. Read it
They would have been communist.
@@hiddenhook6087 debunked
Good to tie forty years of anecdotes from The Stranglers "No more heroes" and Alexei Sayle gags to BBC and Channel 4 references into this excellent video. No surprises for me though. The real Trotsky is pretty much as I expected.
He had a great head of hair. Conditioner didn’t even exist then. I’d kill for that hair. 😂
Same with Stalin
Thats what comes to your mind after watching this...his hair... fool
@@bashakrukimagine. Some people are really stupid
His name also inspired the condition you get when you eat to much Borscht: a bad case of "Trotsky"...
That's what you get when being too pick-y with your food.
Excellent biography of Leon Trotsky. I really like your channel! I think Trotsky would have been better than Stalin. How much better is debatable, but he certainly would have seen the insanity of decimating the Red Army Officer Corps.By doing so, Stalin effectively removed his best, most experienced officers, whose expertise in strategy and tactics would become painfully obvious when Hitler turned on his erstwhile ally, Stalin.
Trotsky wouldn't have been a major enabler of WW2 the way Stalin was.
@@miniflem1 More than likely not.
@@miniflem1 Trotsky, being Jewish, would never have made the pact with Hitler. He was actually arguing for the Soviet Union to go to war with Germany in the late 1930s.
@@tetrahedron1000 was not because he was jewish. He was a soviet socialist and was his duty and a core part of his strategy to fight fascism, the last resort of the bourgeois
@@agustinmilsen nah pretty much the majority of the red army were all jewish. Bolshevism/Communism is ultra jewish.
"I hear it always. I hear the scream. I know he’s waiting for me on the other side."
Excellent report
Pretty sure a guy named Hitler was Stalin's Arch enemy. Not sure you can put Trotsky about him. The two men were responsible for the single deadliest battle in human history (Stalingrad). Part of the reason Stalin defended the city so ferociously was because it bore his name... If you don't know how deadly the battle of Stalingrad was you might want to research it. The death toll numbers are absolutely mind blowing.
Nah not because of it's name it was because it was an important Industrial city for Ussr.
because of it's importance it was named stalingrad.
But Stalin probably regarded Trotsky, not Hitler, as his worst enemy.
Hitler wasn't particularly Stalin's enemy but he was enemy to the Soviet Union.
If only Stalin applied the same resourcefulness and commitment to taking care of Hitler that he applied to Trotsky, then several millions of Russians wouldn't have been slaughtered.
Stalin really knew how to play the game.
Agreed! the man of steel would have easily fit in here in Chicago where his kind are welcomed.
@@catholiccrusader5328 yeah sure get Hitler, Pol Pot and Kim Jong Sung too. Welcome welcome
@Alan Creswell-laing It is difficult to even officially state him a “man”. Hitler was deluded by similar paranoia of Jews but Stalin, the weakest Bolshevik of political intellect, was a monster that had zero regard for human life, not even the life of his own.
@Alan Creswell-laing well said.
@@catholiccrusader5328 Stalin's terror would be welcomed in Chicago right Fred, see a Doctor
in brain disorders right away.
The discussion of Blocking Units is outright propaganda- as they were charged mainly with dealing with deserters, not retreating units, and NEVER gunned down masses of men in tactical retreats (which were allowed- it was unauthorized retreats from the battlefield entirely that could see individual OFFICERS executed) is shown in slanderous films like "Enemy at the Gates."
I'd love to read about an alternate history where Trotsky took the Kremlin instead of Stalin.
Good video comrade
Trotsky, as immortalised by The Stranglers; apart from this he was a mass murdering monstrous waste of space.
Trotsky. Just like those who embraced communism in Russia brought misery and death
capitalism bring hunger, death and genocide, and enslavement.
@@jerrynelson5289 So does 'Socialism.' Haven't you read Animal Farm and 1984 by George Orwell? And look at Putin's Dussia and Belarus.
a classless society a far better society than capitalism. In capitalism a worker just consider as raw material, just there to be exploited. Russia was not ready for true Marxism because most of its people were agrairian not industrial. Stalinism is a deviation to Marxism. Even though there are Marxist leninist element in Stalinism, it is not true Marxism, It is a combination of Russian Nationalism and Leninism.
Who was not a murderer??????? US is the only country to have used nukes against a civilian population............. Churchill caused a huge famine in my country in 1943 to feed the soldiers which killed 3 million Indians bcz he thought we were subhumans just like what Hitler thought of Slavic people........... So tell me who is not a murderer???????
“You can’t escape hell and it’s demons when you’re the one who helped create it”
I would like to have heard a bit more about the role and period of Kerensky and a little bit more about the differences, if any, between that of the October and November uprisings/revolutions! If man can just start realize that no organization or nation has or can conquer EARTH we will start on a better deal for mankind-thus real humanity must first prevail. I would like to have heard a bit more about the role and period of Kerensky, the assassination of Trotsky in Mexico?, and a little bit more about the differences, if any, between that of the October and November uprisings/revolutions! If man can just start realizing that no organization or nation has or can conquer EARTH we will start on a better deal for mankind-thus real humanity must first prevail. Very informative and HiGHLY professionally presented.
This is a great video. I wonder what would have happened to the USSR IF Trotsky had defeated Stalin
It would have collapsed very quickly
@@aaronnolan1653 Agree. But I would like why you say so.
It would collapse very quickly due to Trotsky being a narcissistic jerk who nobody liked.
What do I think about Trotsky? He was a hero and I have been fight for his ideas my howl life.
This was an ok documentary, some mistaces however.
1. Trotsky was actualy the first to propose temporayr NEP reform in order to win back support of the farmers.
2. Permanent revolution was about the inabillity of the bourguasi in backwars contrys to lead a revolution and the need for the workers to take the lead of the revolution, but in alliance with the farmers and other oppressed grupps.
Here is a bether documentary whit his grandson Esteban Volkov
czcams.com/video/3gxpmBaRWZc/video.html
I hope all communists get the same colorful and well deserved ending as Trotsky.
That's right. Communism, socialism and all other monikers that hide behind communism are thee worst scourge, ever. And it must be defeated.
@@andreasnordon4484 we feel the same towards fascists and the capital elites
Very informative.
Excellent overview on Trotsky! The fact that he was a Jew would have been of great import had Stalin allowed him to live.
His real name was Lev Davidovich Bronstein.
His nephew told me that he lived in Charlotte Street in the Bronx, after the Revolution.
In the First World War, here in Italy, we had the military police, Carabinieri, behind the trenches of the front line, they would shoot anyone who fled the fight. In those days soldiers accused of cowardice would be shot on the spot, it wasn't uncommon. Just saying that, of all the murderous things a Communist leader in history has done, shooting soldiers who fled the front line was probably the most tame, not uncommon in other countries either. Not defending the guy.
stalin did the same in ww2, order 227
The inspiration for “Goldstein” in “1984” and “Snowball” in “Animal Farm.”