Not only did he have an armored train he would travel around in to command the red army and do political agitation, it had a dedicated car for a printing press operation, his fucking armored train had its own newspaper.
We give the trots a lot of shit, but there is genuinely so much to admire about Trotsky the historical person that even the most ardent ML has to at least like the guy on some level (as much as you can like a guy who died in 1940 anyway).
Not only did he have an armored train he would travel around in to command the red army and do political agitation, it had a dedicated car for a printing press operation, his fucking armored train had its own newspaper.
We give the trots a lot of shit, but there is genuinely so much to admire about Trotsky the historical person that even the most ardent ML has to at least like the guy on some level (as much as you can like a guy who died in 1940 anyway).