>"An army cannot be built without reprisals. Masses of men cannot be led to death unless the army command has the death-penalty in its arsenal. So long as those malicious tailless apes that are so proud of their technical achievements – the animals that we call men – will build armies and wage wars, the command will always be obliged to place the soldiers between the possible death in the front and the inevitable one in the rear."
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>The USSR would have actually been good with Trostsky instead of the Georgian Beast.
It woukd have been more or less the same, stalin copied most of trotskys policies
It would of been a long WW2 after Trotsky sweeps past Berlin and tries to spread the revolution through force.
Would Trotsky have ended NEP?
That's how you almost loss a war against peasants in white, loss a war against Poland, other against Finland, other against japan...
Yes, stalin directly replicated trotskys economic policies
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Never won a single war without massive western help (Allies in ww2 or tons of voluntars in civil war)
No one is dumb enough to attack the allies as the USSR with American supplies. You would just run out of said supplies due to not getting much more, plus you would open up a Soviet eastern with the United States/opportunistic japan
They pretty much btfo an entire coalition during the civil war
Says a man that never knew what it was like to be a soldier. Fucking beaurocrat.
A entire coalition with less population, industry, resources or external help... but only after almost lossing
I wouldn’t put it past Trotsky to at least try. Dude was hard core about believing the revolution must be spread by force. They’d certainly have the upper hand initially as they had a larger army. But the US manufacturing might and attrition would do them in.
Pretty much everything you just said is false mate.
Would have been less bad. Trotsky would only have decimated the enemies of the Bolshevik state, while Stalin just killed everyone.
And maybe the food shortages would not have been turned into famines with a competent administrator at the top.
Trotsky wanted to export the revolution but not with blind force.
He opposed Lenin on this point regarding the polish war, supporting a negociated peace over a conquest attempt before things went bad for the red army.
Trotsky would be the Hitler of the world. The guy was a fucking lunatic.
To add to this, red army generals including trotsky blamed stalin for the failure in poland. Apparently Stalin didnt stick to the plan of flanking warsaw from the south, instead doing random shit in the south.
Random shit in galicia*
>maybe the food shortages would not have been turned into famines with a competent administrator at the top
>tfw trotsky never took control and led the ussr to collapse almost immediately
All Trotsky and Stalin's policies are almost the same. The true visionary was, actually, Buharin.