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Lev Davidovich Bronshtein (who eventually took the name of Leon Trotsky) lived from 1879 to 1940. He was a Russian Jewish Revolutionary leader, a Soviet politician, and the creator of the 'permament revolution' theory, which stated that if one country revolutionized, all the other nations would follow till the enitre world was reforming. However, the thing that made Trotsky a primary figure in the Russian Revolution was the fact that he was the main opponent of Joseph Stalin for control of the Communist party in Russia. Since he was the leader of the famous Red Army that drove Hitler away from Russia, he was at the time the only man capable of rivaling Stalin for ultimate power. Vladimir Lenin, the man who had first led the growing Communist party, knew that Stalin would lead the country to devastation with his ambitions and had not wanted him to lead the Soviet Union.

Unfortunately, Lenin died before he could express his wishes to the world, thereby leaving the question as to who should take over his title unanswered. Stalin's immense political influence and power eventually won over Trotsky, whose permanent revolution theory was becoming increasingly unpopular against Stalin's Communist party. That, as well as his arrogance, caused Leon Trotsky to lose the power struggle against Joseph Stalin, and he was soon expelled from the Soviet Union.

After finally finding refuge in Mexico with a sympathizer, Leon Trotsky was assassinated by an agent of Joseph Stalin, who still feared that this man could endanger his post as leader of Russia. His counterpart in __Animal Farm__ is Snowball, who like Trotsky, was one of the two most influential people in his region (__Animal Farm__). He in many ways, represented the wiser of the two powers, but he, like his Russian counterpart, got ousted from his position by his main rival, (Napoleon), who like Stalin abused his power and was the reason for his subjects' suffering.
 * Trotsky (above) is addressing his Red Army soldiers in Moscow in 1918.
 * Trotsky was a commissar of the Military and Naval Affairs; he then later founded the Red Army.
 * In the picture above he is inspecting some of the soldiers in 1921.


 * This is Trotsky's Bloody Pen, drawn by someone known by the name of Deni, this was made in 1930.
 * Trotsky used these drawings to oppose Stalin; he tried to establish an alternative direction for communism.

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