Reply #53: i don't know....

[pretzel4gore]

trotsky was a thinker and a philisophical type, like lenin he understoood that brutal forces crush much innocence when loosened but i doubt trotsky (or lenin, maybe even stalin) killed for anything outside of hoping to make things better for the people they idealized, the poor and working people...the other thing here is that the USSR has been so thoroughly demonized that everything connected to it also gets thrown out....if, as you say, trotsky was such a venal horrible man why did he go on vacation while stalin, whom he knew was a brute, held the stage? maybe trotsky assumed that regardless of their differences their cause still made them allies(?)...like i say, i don't know, but i see what america has become in just a few years, and americans haven't gone through a fraction of what the russians did.....so maybe have pity on trotsky, lenin, even stalin (stalin's grandfather was sold like a cow for gods sake)...