What did Leon Trotsky do in Exile? (Short Animated Documentary)

Everyone knows that Trotsky was kicked out of the USSR and remained in exile until 1940. When Ice Axe. But what did he do during his exile? Find out in this short and simple animated history documentary.
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[@plummye005]

"What did Trotsky do in exile?" Get exiled 3 more times

[@PANZERFAUST90]

Got*

[@yoloodevil4170]

@@PANZERFAUST90 Thanks, I wasn't able to understand the joke before

[@The-ct1xq]

And then died

[@Deadlyaztec27]

That profile pick

[@PANZERFAUST90]

@@yoloodevil4170 I know you weren't.

[@corporalzeph2518]

"What did Leon Trotsky do in exile?" Stalin: Die.

[@Gg-qx3vo]

I mean he isn't wrong

[@Salty-Doggy]

@@Gg-qx3vo that wasn't an answer that was a statement

[@g8ymw]

@martin corderoy That what comes of using the wrong thing to get the ear-wax out

[@sviatoslavs.1305]

He was recruiting penguins. All Hoi4 players will confirm that.

[@ecurewitz]

beat me to it

[@Man-O-Little-Tan]

"Trotsky was calling for the french workers to go on strike" well that shouldn't be too difficult

[@CloudWalkBeta]

XD I can imagine all the french hearing Trotsky saying basically amounted to EVERYDAY SHOULD BE A HOLIDAY.

[@fullmetaltheorist]

Especially now.

[@padriandusk7107]

And then scratch their head and say "So, we stop producing cereal and raising livestocks or....?"

[@poletooke4691]

@@jihadonjihadnot really, tbh

[@mell91349]

French are not sheeps like their cousins across the channel 😂

[@chrisphoenix77]

"Drake? Where's Trotsky?" "Dude, he was right here a second ago..." *Government being overthrown in the distance*

[@frut_jooos]

"break the chains"

[@nicholaspatton5590]

Running towards the distance. “OH GOD NO!”

[@oracle8192]

@@nicholaspatton5590 HAHAHAHA OH GOD YES! TROTSKY YES!

[@johnmccarthy6775]

this reads like an oversimplified skit

[@midshipman8654]

well, to be more accurate, he was inciting people to overthrow governments. which he didnt really seem to quite get going in his exile.

[@Clancy3]

I love how this man if left unsupervised just has the ability to overthrow governments.

[@AbbeyRoadkill1]

lmao

[@davianthule2035]

David McDonald yes...sanders a man who obeys the rules of liberal democracy and has conceded electoral votes to his right leaning adversaries is a legendary revolutionary like Trotsky , your an idiot

[@davianthule2035]

Stephen Jenkins by crazy you mean centre left right?

[@lucabrasi3964]

@Wise and Free okay then you right wing nutjob. I can't believe you tried to compare Bernie to Trotsky and Stalin lol give it a break man people might start to think you have an agenda

[@jacintovski]

@Wise and Free McCarthy smiling in the background whilst you speak

[@Betojb007]

"More like Poo-SSR" "More like Stal-out" Priceless.

[@zuhaidsamad]

1.6k likes but no replies thats insane

[@helenos_152]

​@@zuhaidsamad fr bro💀

[@suunxSpirit]

I love how one man with no direct power was such a concern for so many countries

[@lalehiandeity1649]

Really says something about the common working men of these countries and how unhappy they were (and maybe still are).

[@CloudWalkBeta]

From what I can tell, his philosophic goal was to decentralise power, so I guess he was keeping in character XD

[@Rowlph8888]

@@lalehiandeity1649 Still are.But true socialism, in its anarco-syndicalist form, has never been allowed to have even 5 minutes, to see what would happenn, if it was organised properly and the people reallly got behind it

[@luisandrade2254]

He had many followers a man with no direct power can soon become the most powerful if conditions present themselves

[@luisandrade2254]

@@lalehiandeity1649 he wasn’t THAT popular lol

[@christopherjustice6411]

Trotsky meeting Ataturk is the weirdest yet most brilliant crossover I’ve ever heard.

[@ahbabmuttaki1856]

I know right!

[@EndOfSmallSanctuary97]

Soviet Russia supported Ataturk during the Turkish War of Independence

[@ahbabmuttaki1856]

@@EndOfSmallSanctuary97 coz Russians hated ottomans and also they were on opposite sides in ww1 so it's not much of a surprise. Actually when soviet Union was formed,they tried to back Germany but they eventually got out of the war by surrendering but still......

[@EndOfSmallSanctuary97]

@@ahbabmuttaki1856 They also thought Ataturk was a socialist and that he'd bring a socialist revolution to Turkey. They were mostly wrong in that regard, though.

[@ahbabmuttaki1856]

@@EndOfSmallSanctuary97 kinda. Coz the Soviets were successful in their primary mission of removing the ottomans completely.

[@RIFLQ]

Countries: Please behave. Trotsky: So anyway I started blasting.

[@D00MMAST3R]

Trotsky: So anyway I started trash talking

[@adammazeli]

Countries: so anyway I start deporting

[@red_jars4776]

Stalin: so anyway he started dying

[@D00MMAST3R]

@@cantutmez8854 For what? Why are you being an asshole over a history joke?

[@417Owsy]

@@cantutmez8854 lol why are you specifically target this guy. its so random and useless

[@petartoshkov2076]

He wasn't in exile. He was on an extended vacation with no return

[@BCrane-ej4iq]

We Happy Few vibes here.

[@brengun142]

True

[@ahyan14]

Tsukal Klozetov I think you are right

[@SomeGuy-sj1ly]

Forced vacation * lol

[@Ethan-cz8xq]

He also wasn't assassinated. He was simply forcefully deprived of his brain

[@TheLoneTerran]

I like how Trotsky just looked mildly annoyed when being assassinated.

[@NachoBearYeah]

That's kind of how it was. He then turned around, wrestled the assassin to the ground, broke his arm, and asked his guards not to kill him so he could testify.

[@sandeepgill9975]

@@NachoBearYeah Wait Trotsky broke his own arm or?

[@USSFFRU]

@@sandeepgill9975 He was merciful to the Assassin so he broke his own arm so the Assassin didn't look bad

[@sandeepgill9975]

@@USSFFRU Oh ok

[@richardgonzalez6409]

Lenin: i was exiled once from my country Napoleon: hah! i was exiled twice! Trotsky: hold my vodka

[@PANZERFAUST90]

@David McDonald Yeah it's pretty annoying.

[@USSFFRU]

Exiled 3 more times simply because he existed

[@tempejkl]

@@USSFFRUHe was literally forming anti-Stalin blocs within the USSR, inspiring division and mistrust.

[@CDexie]

Trotsky's address to the U.S. Congress would have been VERY interesting.

[@Karifi]

Indeed

[@cumpanions8105]

chances are very good

[@nadie516]

Even if he just moved along with the us' communist party agenda it would have still been VERY interesting

[@chrismain7472]

He would have been like Eugene Debs v2.0

[@POCLEE]

"All you cykas are capitalist pig-dogs but not as nearly low as Stalin!!!"

[@Collectorfirearms]

And France lived up to it's morals... Nope just kidding That was the best line

[@someguy3766]

France has morals? xD

[@Collectorfirearms]

@@someguy3766 that one time...

[@hugosetiawan8928]

@Soloman S what? Say it again?

[@kaderpdi1982]

@Soloman S Napoleon has entered the chat

[@vladescu3g]

Bla bla whatever you say in your little england.

[@MatthewSchellenberg]

If I remember correctly, Trotsky's assassin got a girlfriend who worked at Trotsky's place in Mexico City and over months he would drop her off and pick her up from work. He casually befriended the guards, never asking about Trotsky. In fact he never even asked his girlfriend about Trotsky. Eventually he gained their trust and was able to walk about the compound. After several more weeks of this, he sensed his opportunity, assassinated Trotsky and fled all the way back to Russia and was given a hero's welcome. I think I heard that story on "What we saw - cold war" podcast.

[@guntugakgun1924]

wasnt he a journalist? As far as I know he wanted to do a interview with trotsky

[@thekraken108]

He got caught by Trotsky's bodyguard and was nearly beaten to death before Trotsky told the guard to let him live.

[@MatthewSchellenberg]

@@thekraken108 Wait, so he killed Trotsky after getting caught?

[@thekraken108]

@@MatthewSchellenberg no he got caught after stabbing Trotsky

[@vault6242]

@@MatthewSchellenberg No no, Trotsky didn't die the moment he was struck by that pickaxe, he actually fought back and even managed to overpower his own assasin AFTER being struck with a pickaxe, his guards did beat the assasin and tried to kill him (after he managed to restrain him and called them) but he wanted him to live so he could confess to the press what he did. But he did eventually fall into a coma and died. (Its a bit more complicated than that but that's basically what happened)

[@givrally7634]

1:40 "The prime minister (he changed every five minutes at this point)" I love how this one sentence could be a video in and of itself, but it's in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment.

[@jackedgar8206]

Glad my favourite book, "More like Poo-s-s-r" got a shoutout

[@petartoshkov2076]

Poo-s-s-r? Oh you meant the degenerated workers' state of the Soviet Union

[@maladetts]

@@petartoshkov2076 It's more like you're the degenerate here, having no shame in writing something like this.

[@maladetts]

And why would that be your "favorite" book? What would make you so anti-Soviet? The deepest care for your fascistic oligarchy's agenda brainwashing you shamelessly about socialism that they deem a threat to themselves?

[@shambosaha9727]

@@maladetts A. Stalinist Russia was fascist and oppressive. The administration in the puppet states caused great famines and mass genocides. B. Capitalism is poo and leads a country to ruins. I would know because it lead my country to ruins, with famines killing millions of people and reducing our share in world GDP to a level that we haven't yet recovered from.

[@maladetts]

@@shambosaha9727 I don't know whatever you mean by "puppet states" and "mass genocides" and what is it concretely that you refer to, obviously trying to misrepresent the whole purpose of communism which is building a prosperous society for the no-longer-oppressed working people enjoying all social benefits freely, and why would you call a main enemy and defeater of fascism "fascist" (even with all the Stalinist crimes against mostly the communists in mind) - but I couldn't agree with you more on the genocidal murderous ruinous POO CAPITALISM and what it does to countries and people. The now-occupied and destroyed socialist world experienced it first-hand, I know. Along with many other currently burning countries.

[@darkraven5106]

Congress: Hey, you wanna come give a speech? Trotsky: Yes! It will be about Stalin Being evil and telling the workers of America to strike and overthrow the Capitalists! Congress: Aaaaand never mind.

[@unocualqu1era]

Also they'll overthrow you (the one inviting me)! I'm not sure if Trotsky was extremely in love with his ideology or just dumb

[@mrbisshie]

@@unocualqu1era I guess Trotsky never heard the saying "Don't shit where you eat" I don't blame the leaders for throwing him out of the countries that gave him refuge.

[@nunyabeeswax9463]

Trotsky early 1900's : Thats ok, someday the US will elect members supporting workers right and the overthrow of capitalism!! Congress early 1900' s: i bet you six pack of beer. Ghost of Trotsky 2020: Burp. Can i get an IPA?

[@darkraven5106]

Nunya Beeswax Trump: No, your fired.

[@bobmcbob49]

@@mrbisshie "shit where you eat" is the official communist motto

[@TheMCzorro]

0:07 I love Trotsky's eye animation in that moment, Mercader plunges an iceaxe into Trotsky's head and Trotsky's like "Seriously?"

[@shindari]

Having Trotsky assassinated was a heads up move by Stalin. Because Trotsky would have ABSOLUTELY returned to Russia, when Hitler invaded, and used that as valid reasoning that Stalin was no good for the USSR, and that he would lead the counterattack against the Nazis. Whether or not he would be successful is up for debate, but he definitely would have tried to take advantage of the USSR's problem, and the party itself would have probably willingly given up Stalin for punishment, because Stalin was basically the reason Russia was losing the war (so far).

[@Kaiserboo1871]

Which is worrying because I don’t think Trotsky would have stopped with Germany, I think he would have kept marching all the way to France, even if it meant war with America.

[@scottabc72]

How would he have returned? Trotsky wouldnt have been allowed in German controlled territory and while there were a lot of people unhappy with Stalin, any kind of organized dissent had been killed or terrorized out of existence so Trotsky would have been immediately picked up in areas still controlled by Stalin.

[@criram2968]

@@scottabc72 Idk man Trotsky is just one of those people that this uncanny ability to rally people to a cause. And he could probably get Mexican communist help to ship him across the Pacific

[@12jswilson]

People also fundamentally misunderstood Stalin and Trotsky for decades. If Trotsky was in charge, it would mean war until every country was communist or he was dead. People thought Stalin was the same, but he was a much more paranoid and defensive communist who didn't want anyone messing up his communist state, but wasn't necessarily keen on spreading it elsewhere. Even the eastern block Warsaw Pact was mostly about a buffer state between capitalist western Europe that he viewed as a threat and the USSR. Stalin was responsible for 10s of millions of deaths in the Soviet Union, but Trotsky leading them might have been worse for the whole world.

[@alexrandell5559]

@@12jswilson thats a common but completely mistaken understanding of trotskyism, Trotsky was not in favour of endless war to spread communism everywhere, he was in favour of supporting revolutionary movements around the world, as was every Marxist until Stalin, but he was absolutely not in favour of invading countries to impose communism, in fact there's several records of him opposing invasions

[@tinyupes]

Can you do: What did Napoleon do in Elba?

[@MCmao]

Came back?

[@TLOK1918]

Dictate his memoirs, learn English, take long walks, stare into the horizon in remembrance of lost glories, tend to his garden, watch his attendents' children play, and have stomach pains, mostly. But yeah, perhaps a more detailed video is warranted.

[@JosePineda-cy6om]

@@TLOK1918 You forgot one important point: play chess. Lots and lots of chess matches, most of which he won - Ol' Shorty was really, really good at the game - something kinda to be expected seeing he was a military genious. I'm sure he'd fallen in love with Go, also, had he had the chance to know about it.

[@LucidFL]

Jose Pineda wasnt short dumb ass

[@nb2008nc]

He got poisoned

[@nightsurvivor3673]

"What did Trotsky do in exile?" If I remember correctly he tried to Outpizza the Hut...

[@CommanderStupid]

That's why Stalin ordered his assassination.

[@Felishamois]

?

[@aegeanharrier6648]

@@Felishamois meme

[@jonyprepperisrael60]

No no no,outsoviet the union

[@aureavita8653]

No, no. He tried to Outtaco the Bell

[@macacoumadelizia1737]

Trotsky offering trade to countries be like I receive: Residency Safety from Stalin Personal security You receive: Revolution

[@invidatauro8922]

@Omar Khurshid With a side of shit policies that where literally what Stalin did.

[@janosmarothy5409]

Tbf his was personal security was *not* taken for granted. The Kremlin was sending the GPU after him and his supporters abroad for quite a while. the video makes a pretty big factual error when it claims Stalin "finally learned his lesson" in 1940 or whatever. This is false. Assassinating Trotsky was a goal right from the beginning of exile, as it wasn't politically feasible in the period leading up to 1929 when it was still "only" limited to censorship, propaganda campaigns and internal exile

[@invidatauro8922]

@Omar Khurshid Just pointing out that a lot of people say Trotsky would've been better for russia, when all the things that Stalin did where what trostky planned to do.

[@kayjay5349]

@@invidatauro8922 Not even close. Stalin's economic policies were watered-down versions of a plan proposed by the Left Opposition several years before Stalin capitulated to those policies at all, which was in 1931. That plan was based on the economic conditions in 1923. Trotsky also heavily criticized Stalin's policies and also proposed the genuine Marxist (socialist) solution in his critiques. You should read The Revolution Betrayed, in it Trotsky outlines very clearly where he disagrees with Stalin and what ought to have been done instead to establish a genuine socialist state.

[@henfencey5751]

@@kayjay5349 Based 😎

[@mattfitzgerald6067]

"What did Trotsky do in Exile?" Frieda

[@tntimothyroditi1576]

As in Frieda Kahlo?

[@mattfitzgerald6067]

@@tntimothyroditi1576 yes

[@mattfitzgerald6067]

@frank hargreaves you didn’t see the movie?

[@mattfitzgerald6067]

@frank hargreaves Frieda with salma Hayek and barbossa as trotsky

[@kevinbergin2225]

Before we start calling Trotsky a god, he didn't do Salma Hayek he did the real uni-browed Frieda.

[@lewism1995]

Countries keeping Trotsky: "You can stay but no revolutions." Trotsky: *U cAn StAy bUt No rEvoLUtIoNs*

[@KamaAnthem]

why I read the last one with Donald Turmp accent

[@nicksnelson1231]

I read this so Sarcastically😂💔

[@Longshanks1690]

I hear he got a serious headache near the end.

[@lavendervonstaro4004]

The poor bastard actually survived the incident and died a day later in hospital.

[@aegeanharrier6648]

@Incognito He just did what he believed to be best for humanity.Not that I support him but...

[@arianas0714]

@Incognito Both were tironic maniacs

[@lavendervonstaro4004]

@@arianas0714 Kinda. Trotsky was significantly more liberal and was a strong critic of Lenin and Stalin for their Authoritarian tendencies. He even was a leading member of the menshiviks (if only briefly)

[@smillingdooku8116]

I see u an fellow EFAPPER in many places. How could this be?

[@noriyakigumble3011]

“What did trotsky do in exhile?” Me: “Frida kahlo for a little while”

[@kevinbergin2225]

Just saying, he didn't do Salma Hayek he did the real uni-browed Frieda.

[@sho3003]

To be fair her husband had already cheated on her

[@Deus-Vult_Against_the_bots]

“He’s being a pain” By far the most underrated History Matters sign.

[@user-bx4qs6dk8k]

"Introduced an ice axe to the back of Trotsky's skull" - Love the way you described his death

[@esmariaquienpenaenlacalleees]

zi

[@nickmills8906]

And apparently the Mexicans slightly felt responsible for the new hole in his head by turning his house into a museum

[@alexanderkarayannis6425]

When he got to Mexico he was given a warm welcome with a banner (2:36) saying:"Welcome Lev!..Please don't overthrow the government"...😂

[@BCrane-ej4iq]

The Mexican government was already getting communist with the president at the time, expropriating oil and gas companies and keeping them controlled by the government. Maybe that's why they let him in.

[@thedarkassassin0116]

baruc kast Lazaro Cardenas was a socialist, but was still keenly aware of forming a democratic government to end the authoritarianism in Mexico (he was at least successful until PRI became corrupt).

[@redcompanyINC]

@@Kk-dy6bq nope, by this point the shifting of power in Mexico had stabilized, so much so that the political power remained on one party (PRI) for over 70 years.

[@AlexVanChezlaw]

Lazaro Cardenas purged the goverment from Calles and his followers (callistas, who were the '' ''facists'' '' in Mexico) and stabilized the country. What youre refering to was before Cardenas term, around the late 20s early 30s, when Presidents Carranza and Obregon were killled

[@sunrisings292]

@@BCrane-ej4iq The Mexican govt wasn't "getting communist". Just socialist, a lot more nationalist and pursuing Mexico's interests: it hated Adolf, and angered the Brits, US and Soviets at the same time... This approach worked, soon allowed Mexico to do fair business with all of them (except Adolf, of course).

[@l.u.i.s._.8452]

He wrote a lot communist propaganda and told the worker to revolt This enraged “insert country here” who exiled him severally

[@melvinmerkelhopper5752]

Oversmiplified lol/

[@ahbabmuttaki1856]

Oversimplified

[@mrbisshie]

"Don't shit where you eat!" I'm more surprised even those few countries took him in.

[@jeffreyhutton1963]

Dude uncool

[@JoaoPedroPezarini]

2:37 "Welcome... Please Don't overthrow the government" such a warm welcome

[@cuff1626]

Become leader of Mexico and inavde the Soviet Union

[@sviatoslavs.1305]

OOOOOOOOH

[@armaholic5949]

In HOI4 you can have Trotsky seize power in Mexico and attack the USSR XDD

[@sviatoslavs.1305]

@@armaholic5949 That's what he said.

[@gimmethegepgun]

Dolce Banana Yes that's literally what he was referencing.

[@timesnewlogan2032]

*STRIKE THE DEGENERATED WORKERS’ STATE!*

[@warrenlehmkuhleii8472]

French: Come here. Also French: Stay there tho.

[@jasonpost913]

We had a very narrow definition of 'here' in mind when we offered to let you come here.

[@mariano98ify]

well, France wanted him under control so at least if he didn't stay in their country they will make sure Trotsky doesn't move so far away

[@ChrisJones-ij3xp]

We'll set you up in a nice villa on the coast as long as you stay away from Paris.

[@Octagonal]

This comment is underrated lmao

[@FIREBRAND38]

"Oh, Trotsky...the problem isn't you, it's me" "Really?" "No, I'm lying, you're entirely the problem."

[@Hannodb1961]

"...but if you don't know, it was ended in 1940 when a chap called so-and-so introduced a nice axe to the back of Trotsky's skull" - This is the reason why I am subscribed to this channel.

[@c.a.savage5689]

"Ice axe" NOT a "nice axe". It certainly wasn't nice for Trotsky.

[@Petriefied0246]

This is really interesting, my grandfather was one of his bodyguards while he lived in Norway.

[@hollin220]

Ian Petrie Did your Grandfather ever share any stories? I would love to hear those stories if you are able to share.

[@proletariapricot2190]

@@hollin220 seconded!

[@hansolo5912]

@@hollin220 count me in too

[@johnrandall125]

Yeah, do tell! What did your grandad say about Trotsky?

[@sharkestry1119]

hollin220 comment bookmark in case of trotsky storytime

[@andynguyen7817]

Video suggestions “How did Mongolia became a puppet under the Soviet Union? What was Mongolia like under Soviet influence and control?” “How come Austria never unified Germany?”

[@tishafeed8085]

austria never unified germany because they lost in a war against prussia

[@thecyberpirate]

I would really like to know what the 3 Baltic countries were like before the Soviets annexed them

[@arianas0714]

@@thecyberpirate In Lithuania, it was quite a golden age. In 1924, we yoinked Memel (Klaipėda) from the French by a peaceful "rebellion". Our economy was booming, and we were catching up to the nordic states(!). In 1926 (I believe) Antanas Smetona (Our first president) performed a semi-peaceful coup, and created an autocratic system, but Smetona was still (and still is) considered to be one of our greatest presidents. Everything was going really well until 1940. Some say that if the Soviets didn't attack us, we would have a pretty good economy in current times.

[@mundogameplay1341]

Mongolia was a puppet of Soviet Union because the Red Army troops invaded Mongolia,Its leader was Vorn-Sternberg(That Kaiserreich Guy) who invaded The Chinese Mongolia as a White Russian Warlord

[@kalyka98]

Austria was for centuries the leader of the HRE, so somewhat the leader of the germans, however during the napoleonic wars and after their weaknesses were put in full display and the germans turned to the prussians to unify

[@pauldonnelly910]

It is a more or less pointless detail, but I've always been curious: why an ice axe? That's NOT an ice pick, which was a very common tool for breaking up big chunks of ice in those days before ice cubes. What Mercador used is a climbing axe, designed for chopping foot- and hand-holds while climbing mountains. That's not the sorta thing one finds in Mexico City. Part of the speculation about it is that Mercador intended a silent assassination, which didn't work out: he didn't even kill Trotsky right away. The obvious MOTIVE for a particular weapon would have been concealment -- but if the guy figured he couldn't hide a boning knife (ideal for this sorta thing), how come he was able to sneak in THAT thing?

[@henfencey5751]

If you look at the axe he used, most of the handle is sawed off so that it could be concealed in Mercader's jacket pocket. According to an article I read, the NKVD recommended using blunt force trauma to the back of the head to silently assassinate people, since apparently stabbing isn't as reliable of a killing method, but as you say, the assassination wasn't silent in the first place, so I guess that part went to the dogs. As far as why an ice axe was used, it's probably because it's what Mercader had on hand, right? The same article says he stole it from his landlord's son. There are surprisingly tall glaciated volcanoes relatively close to Mexico City, so it makes sense. If you were Mercader and you saw an ice axe laying around, you'd probably just use that rather than waste time going around the city trying to find a hatchet or whatever.

[@pauldonnelly910]

@@henfencey5751 That Trotsky's assassin stole an ice ax from his landlord's son in Mexico City is the kind of detail that disproves all conspiracy theories. The truth simply doesn't need to be credible.

[@henfencey5751]

@@pauldonnelly910 What conspiracy theories are you referring to?

[@pauldonnelly910]

@@henfencey5751 All of 'em. As a rule, you can tell something is a 'conspiracy theory', instead of just an opinion, when random facts or outright contradictions are explained away as impossible.... UNLESS. The Mexican ice ax is an example. (It'd also make a good title for a novel, come to think on it.)

[@kimobrien.]

@@pauldonnelly910 An earlier attemp by the Stalinists was lead by the painter David Siquerous machine gunning Trotsky's bedroom.

[@johnbrown9542]

Trotsky: Stalin? More like Stal-out am I right!? Stalin: It’s ice ax time

[@immacintosh2966]

Last time i was this early Stalin, Lenin and Trotsky got together

[@BoltonForTheNorth]

Lenin and Trotsky never really got along with Stalin. Lenin just kept him around because he was effective at gathering money from the bourgeois for the revolution, and later crushing the whites during the civil war

[@brandonlyon730]

@@BoltonForTheNorth Lenin apparently did agreed a lot with Stalin when it came to some policy’s and ideas to run the nation, but he hated him as person finding him as a low life drunken slob. Though he did start to really hate him after Stalin insulted his wife at one point.

[@supermanXL]

Didn’t Lenin leave a note saying don’t let Stalin run USSR after he died?

[@hecksters423]

@@brandonlyon730 Duly noted: *Never talk shit about your waifu*

[@BoltonForTheNorth]

@@supermanXL yes he did

[@mustafahussain2118]

"Capitalism, it's like really poo" - Leon trotsky

[@Fr4ncM]

"More Like POO-S-S-R" - Leon Trotsky

[@arandomyoutubeaccount3166]

@@Fr4ncM "More like Stal-out" - Leon Trotsky

[@maxwelljarowey2612]

His best work

[@arandomyoutubeaccount3166]

@Joseph Stalin Uhh, nyet.

[@meeper46]

Trotsky: *gets invited to live in a country while in exile* Also Trotsky: *proceeds to write about overthrowing the government*

[@kimobrien.]

Trotsky abided by the laws of the country he was in. Stalin had him sent to Turkey as part of the Soviet diplomatic core to get him out of the Soviet Union. A revolutionary invited in to a Bourgeois Democracy is interviewed by the press. The world is being threatened by Hitlerism in Germany and Stalin is consolidating his rule murdering political opponents accusing them of Trotskyism. Was he supposed to stay silent to please people who sit in chairs writing drivel based upon rumors and Stalinist lies?

[@damienfinnegan8272]

Best book titles ever! 1: Capitalism, its like really poo 2: More like Poo-s-s-r 3: More like Stal-out

[@sakr-el-bahr272]

2:25 - "Back in the USSR" .... good one.

[@olegoose574]

I like how Trotsky is just a little bit annoyed by an ice axe going through his head

[@Fr4ncM]

He was not upset, just disappointed.

[@adamkotter6174]

To be fair, that's kind of how he actually reacted. According to the Wikipedia article on Trotsky, after being stabbed, he "spat on Mercader and began struggling fiercely with him, which resulted in Mercader's hand being broken. Hearing the commotion, Trotsky's bodyguards burst into the room and nearly beat Mercader to death, but Trotsky stopped them, laboriously stating that the assassin should be made to answer questions." Trotsky died about a day later from blood loss. The dude took an ice axe to the brain and tried to just walk it off.

[@sho3003]

It's also worth noting that Trotski was a "close friend" with Frida Kalo (a female mexican painter), and I think you know what I'm talking about Though to Frida's defence, her husband, Diego Rivera, also had a "close relationship" with Frida's sister, so it was more like a revenge than anything

[@juanon_industries7256]

29/57, someone was a little bit more older💀, but as a trotski simpatizer, frida kahlo waz just doing it "to complete his manifesto"

[@laithalabri8456]

Just want to say, the quality of these videos, especially their humour, seems to be at an all-time high lately. Keep it up!

[@johnkeefer8760]

Having the credits picture get photo scrubbed was a fantastic Easter egg

[@mojewjewjew4420]

Doubt many noticed.

[@dant.3505]

Probably half the viewers

[@Vienna3080]

I’m surprised Trotsky didn’t move to the USA at some point

[@juanfranciscovillarroelthu6876]

the "overthrow American Capitalism" thing got in the way.

[@LedosKell]

Didn't Huey Long say he'd shoot him personally?

[@slewone4905]

His family is here. She actually is a director in a federal agency.

[@ivar1543]

@@LedosKell sounds like something he would say, but idk

[@Cerberus-wd7ue]

@@ivar1543 Considering how much of a loose cannon that Long was I could actually see him do it.

[@rudaleru]

“What did Trotsky do in exile?” Revolutionary communist things

[@Donjuanantoine]

You seriously deserve more subscribers. Your videos are informative, funny, the perfect length and just overall good. A perfect mixture of humor and knowledge. Outstanding work.

[@ShadowClash12]

You forgot the part where he had an affair with Frida Kahlo while in Mexico

[@lamaahruloma4270]

He had no affair with Kahlo..

[@mydarlinggirlrachae]

@@lamaahruloma4270 Trotsky was a goddamn genius, and while he did have an affair with Kalho, he admitted as much, only infantile wankers bring it to disparage him.

[@digidragon02]

@@lamaahruloma4270 hahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahhaahhahahahahaha Not having sex with Frida Kahlo after meeting her was like never meeting her

[@kevinbergin2225]

Before we start calling Trotsky "the man", he didn't do Salma Hayek he did the real uni-brow Frieda.

[@sunrisings292]

@@kevinbergin2225 LoL. Kahlo's moustache also was legendary.

[@ralphrex9118]

The pace and information in your videos is absolutely spot on, mix in the odd “no just kidding” and each episode is a cultural masterpiece - kudos.

[@burningnapalm4436]

“More like Sta-Out” damn Leon be handing out these burns

[@henryvalz93]

Narrator: "I hope you enjoyed today's episode..." Trotsky: "I did not."

[@Ypog_UA]

0:23 might want to specify that this is the 1941 borders of the ussr not when trotsky was exciled 1:30 here is what you should have use

[@butterw55]

3:27 [Animation of ice axe to the skull.] "I hope you enjoyed this episode..."

[@frostyblade8842]

2:43 Damn I laughed harder at that than I expected. Thank you for that History Matters

[@15moners66]

"More like EWW-S-S-R".

[@frostyblade8842]

@15moners66 I love that bit haha. Thanks for bringing me back here dude, I can't belive it's been 3 years

[@Sangrell]

*Greatest. Animator. Ever.* I mean it, you always make me laugh! Thanks for all the fantastic videos!

[@eden4279]

He was vibing till' he got a vibe check

[@PANZERFAUST90]

'til*

[@shay3355]

Fun fact : Trotsky, Stalin, Hitler, Tito all lived in Vienna in 1913 and actually very close to each other. So close, that they would often meet in a nearby coffeehouse.

[@MrSniperfox29]

Hitler and Stalin never actually met

[@richardfreeman724]

@sneksnekitsasnek just fyi NYC was the 'nyc' of the 19 and 20 century.

[@Noperare]

We need a sitcom of those guys hanging on the cafe.

[@stormtrooper9404]

Another neighbour was also Sigmund Freud! If any of them by chance seeked a help or even befriended him... Am sure milions of lives would have been spared ;)

[@nicopavvi8494]

Damn, what a pub brawl...

[@Milk382011]

The sprinkles of humor are always perfectly timed and perfectly done 😂

[@ahmetben8812]

"(...) France because its prime minister who changed every five minutes at this point." Best summary of French politics in the interbellum period.

[@frankieseward8667]

How many Prime Ministers did they have?;

[@Lcgmatheus]

Trotsky: Soviet Union: get him out of here Every country’s government: please don’t overthrow me

[@IJustKant]

Stalin in a powdered wig is the sort of humor I love from this channel

[@ArkadiBolschek]

I'll never get tired of people making mildly annoyed faces as they're getting killed.

[@PANZERFAUST90]

@@ArkadiBolschek lol right?

[@getmeoutofsanfrancisco9917]

For his alleged "intelligence", Trotsky really had no idea how to play both ends against the middle. Very short sighted.

[@Mourtzouphlos240]

You know who could do that? The guy who outmaneuvered him in government and won a popularity contest against him.

[@CrashB111]

@@Mourtzouphlos240 Always seemed like Stalin was more in it for the power, and Trotsky/Lenin were in it because they genuinely felt Communism was the right way forward for humanity. So Trotsky couldn't reign it in, because it wasn't an act. He was being genuine and felt Communism was the answer.

[@TheCloud175]

@@kms_scharnhorst Stalin the absolute genius who thought it’d be a good idea to get rid of all the successful farmers and let millions starve to death. Big brained indeed.

[@dinmukhammadbekzhan9584]

@@kms_scharnhorst bruh, let’s not overlook the fact that he was the one who actively used concentration camps which were filled with people accused of treason so that he could exploit millions of people as slaves. Soviet infrastructure was built in expense of their lives

[@alicecooper5533]

@@TheCloud175 he also industrialised the country so that they could produce the tanks, plane etc that won ww2

[@Vesta_the_Lesser]

I love these cute little animations, someone holding a sign that just says "hello" is so silly

[@itaybron]

Trotsky: *exists* Police surveilence: WE'LL TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK!

[@dylanoxley2119]

1:39 "this was important to France because of its Prime Minister which changed every 5 minutes" Aye bro same 🇦🇺

[@sviatoslavs.1305]

"changed every 5 minutes" HOI4 with Road to 56 experience in a nutshell.

[@pocketmarcy6990]

1930s France really be like 2020s UK

[@davidfarrer4332]

Yep same here 🇬🇧

[@gabespiro8902]

"You can stay here so long as you don't call for revolution" "But that's, like, my thing"

[@Dionaea_floridensis]

Trotsky: "I'm escaping to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism... SPACE!"

[@jessicalynn2565]

T I M C U R R Y

[@firemangan2731]

Yes! 😂

[@kevinbergin2225]

@@jessicalynn2565 Do you mean Tim Leary? Or did Curry actually say that in "It" or in "Rocky Horror Picture Show"?

[@dudesayingthings]

I really thought you were gonna say heaven.

[@anameyoucantremember]

@@dudesayingthings Heaven is corrupted as hell ;)

[@samaritan3712]

Eating Tacos. Maybe even with a spice of COMMUNISM.

[@alfredashford5924]

Panteleimon Ponomarenko I see you, Isorrowproduction memer. Come, we truck to Moscow together!

[@timmccarthy872]

CUMIN-ISM

[@youraverageuser7039]

Panteleimon Ponomarenko WE MUST HAVE ISORROW RETURN YOU TO POWER NEXT DLC

[@octavian2381]

are you funnymustacheman33? maybe funnyicepickman29?

[@brettkane9175]

Food spiced with communism is a bit of an oxymoron, no?

[@samrevlej9331]

0:39 Édouard Daladier was the prime minister (or President of the Council of Ministers) of France. The president of the Republic was Albert Lebrun, but as with most French presidents under the Third Republic, he didn't actually exercise much power at all.

[@TheJohnblyth]

Great video as usual: wise, informative and yet hilarious. I often even listen to the list of patrons, because they’re quite a varied bunch of namestyles, are they not?

[@fenceyhen4249]

I'd give my life savings to see Trotsky testify before Congress, that would absolutely rule

[@kimobrien.]

FDR had 18 leaders of the Trotskist Socialist Workers Party and Minneapolis Teamsters union were put on trial for violation of the Smith "gag" Act. You can read Jim Cannon's court testimony in "Socialism on Trial"

[@KaranLopez]

He went to exile and became colonel Sanders.

[@dansmachine9360]

Imagine how history would have roll out if Trotsky had assassinated Stalin during the Civil War

[@cantutmez8854]

He wouldn't do it since he was not a power hungry traitor to working class

[@blenderbanana]

@@cantutmez8854 Trotsky was a Bolshevik. He was every bit as hostile to the "Working Class" as Lenin, and Stalin.

[@altra1266]

@@blenderbanana he was a menshevik. Yes he switch because he had to if he wanted to live but his ideas were still menshevik ones, so he would have been a better ruler than stalin that is for sure

[@blenderbanana]

@@altra1266 Trotsky organized and led the Red Army during the Civil War, and the first phase of the red terror. He was every bit as vicious as Stalin was, he was just bad at politicing. You have to understand, the "Nice Soviets" were all dead or retired by the time the Bolsheviks took Russia.

[@altra1266]

@@blenderbanana i did not said that trotsky was a good person, but he had menshevik idea, so more democratic idea and less terror and authority. And just think about the number of people that could have been saved (because no great purge, no famine and genocines). Some people would have still died of course but very less. So im just saying it would have been better

[@nik65stgt60]

Great content!

[@bl4ze1574]

I always have these weird historical questions and this man always has the videos for them.

[@punishedvenomsnake716]

Getting ice picked was his favorite past time

[@air9music]

your merch must have a mug that says "I

[@PANZERFAUST90]

That would be dumb.

[@Cjnw]

Peak James Bissonette

[@rossc7910]

I do love your videos.

[@theknightswhosay]

I love the pictures in this.

[@modernkennnern]

As a norwegian, I was *very* surprised when you said that Trotsky has lived here O.o I feel that's something I should've heard at some point in the past

[@christophercrane5831]

Trotsky writes about it. He was very unhappy with his treatment by the Norwegian government

[@stuartpenwarden253]

If you got in really bad trouble in school; you'd get expelled. You had to be really bad to get expelled from more than one school. Trotsky's like four countries kicked me and still my first school came for me, a touch beyond just expulsion.

[@kimobrien.]

Lev Davidovich Bronstein had been leader of the 1905 Soviet that had been crushed by the Czar and whose leaders were arrested. He escaped his Siberian prison camp using his guards name Trotsky. He was driven from a number of countries in Europe the last being from Spain to New York. Upon News of the 1917 February revolution he left New York for St Petersburg Russia but was detained by the British in Canada however the Kerensky government demanded his release. Upon which he proceeded to St Petersburg Russia. .You see Trotsky was invited in because he was very popular among the workers and labor movement. Stalin couldn't just boot him out of the Soviet Union either he had to be sent to the Soviet Embassy in Turkey. One day he just didn't return to the Embassy in Turkey. Police spies do more than just watch and report back they are actively looking for ways to disrupt legitimate political activity are like the 40 year FBI war on the Socialist Workers Party. The 1941 Smith "gag" Act trial testimony is still published today as "Socialism on Trial." And the landmark case Socialist Workers Party vs Attorney General put the FBI on trial after the watergate revelations.

[@oscarbjb7938]

this has got to be one of the funniest videos you've made

[@tessat338]

I think of Leon Trotsky every time that I go into REI and see their ice ax door handles. REI's predecessor company was where Ramon Mercader was supposed to have purchased the fatal ice ax.

[@ITAviation1]

"They promptly put him under police surveillance". That seems to be a reoccurring theme wherever trotsky went...

[@seand1011]

I understand why you aren't doing 10 minute videos any longer but I do hope you stretch ones like this out to at least 5 or 6 minutes because they're rather entertaining.

[@markmarano913]

Can we just stop to appreciate the genius of the title "More Like Poo-S-S-R"?

[@HandsumeAJ]

Could say he got a splitting headache

[@romangeneral23]

"Who changed every five minutes" Best line....

[@grahamturner2640]

3:09 LOL

[@dargon1084]

Aaah James Bizenet. Thank you so much

[@austinchase2]

This video made me laugh a lot. Props.

[@emir6691]

loving the rapid fire content

[@chrisdelagarza8048]

FUN FACT::: this guy is the best history teacher I’ve ever had......

[@steviekenny581]

This made me put the Stranhlers on!! Thank you👍

[@tyleralmquist7606]

Lol I love how it basically treats inciting revolution and criticizing Stalin as just a hobby of Trotsky’s