Who is the second guy?
10Leon Trotsky, Communist theorist and revolutionary who led the Red Army in the early days of the Soviet Union. After Lenin died, he came into conflict with Stalin, and ended up going into exile. He was killed by one of Stalin's assassins in like 1940ish with an icepick.
22Thanks!
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Recent DDBB assassination tier list pointed out that Trotsky's death wasn't that long before the first KFC opened. (I have not fact checked)
It's my new KFC head canon now
8I occasionally wonder how Russia would have ended up if Trotsky succeeded Lenin instead of Stalin.
8The biggest difference would have been avoiding the sino-soviet schism.
The modern hate within communities like hexbear and ml for Trotsky is kinda ironic given that most of them are fans of Mao. Especially considering the split between Stalin and Trotsky began over what to do with China.
Stalin wanted to support the KMT, further dividing the country and enabling him to take mongolia and parts of northern China. Trotsky wanted to aid the CCP, and eventually create a global network of communist countries. This ran counter to Stalin's agenda of communism under one united country.
9Lenin's party at least lifted up and used folks like Stalin, so it may have been better but I doubt it would have been "good".
I don't really know a thing about Trotsky though, other than he was Lenin's chosen successor and then had to flee before getting assassinated
4Dude eventually got ice axed. Definitely not a good way to go.
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Julius Stalin
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