Trotsky had alienated the party so badly by 1925 Kamenev and Zinoviev were trying to assassinate him and by 1927 (When Trotsky was thrown out of the party) they openly called for shooting him
To which Stalin replied "Why make a martyr out of Trotsky who will soon be defeated anyway. We better not start chopping heads or we wont know where it will end" (referencing the french revolution)
Stalin only started chopping heads when the opposition started doing actual assassinations like killing Sergei Kirov
In 1940 when all the communists in Ukraine were pro Soviet he was writing articles on the "independence of Ukraine" when those calling for independence were bourgeois nationalists and fascists and would later go on to collaborate with nazis and up their own SS divisions. This is despite knowing that Hitler called for conquerinUkraine for Lebensraum
Trotsky basically saw himself as a Napolean Bonaparte that should rule all by himself and the party wouldnt even let him be a normal member after 1927 let alone lead them
In the year of his expulsion(1927) he set up the Opposition. At the party congress 724,000 members voted for the Stalin led party platform and 4000 voted for the Trotskys opposition program
In order for Trotsky to ever lead the Bolsheviks he basically needs to be an entirely different person making entirely different decisions
Trotsky had alienated the party so badly by 1925 Kamenev and Zinoviev were trying to assassinate him and by 1927 (When Trotsky was thrown out of the party) they openly called for shooting him
To which Stalin replied "Why make a martyr out of Trotsky who will soon be defeated anyway. We better not start chopping heads or we wont know where it will end" (referencing the french revolution)
Stalin only started chopping heads when the opposition started doing actual assassinations like killing Sergei Kirov
In 1940 when all the communists in Ukraine were pro Soviet he was writing articles on the "independence of Ukraine" when those calling for independence were bourgeois nationalists and fascists and would later go on to collaborate with nazis and up their own SS divisions. This is despite knowing that Hitler called for conquerinUkraine for Lebensraum
Trotsky basically saw himself as a Napolean Bonaparte that should rule all by himself and the party wouldnt even let him be a normal member after 1927 let alone lead them
In the year of his expulsion(1927) he set up the Opposition. At the party congress 724,000 members voted for the Stalin led party platform and 4000 voted for the Trotskys opposition program
In order for Trotsky to ever lead the Bolsheviks he basically needs to be an entirely different person making entirely different decisions