Trotsky wakes up in the morning.
"How are you?" an assistant asks.
"I don’t know," he says. "I haven’t read the papers yet."
Not sure.
im not even marxist and i think that trotsky was a good guy, i mean, for a communist i guess
in the midst of being in the middle of a fuckin moron sandwich between lenin and stalin (and no, i dont think lenin was a good guy) trotsky made due with what he had, it was a fucked up tumultuous time so do what you can i guess to bridge the gap into some sense of normalcy, for the communist party anyways
stalin said nope! cant have that! sent a dude to kill him with an ice pick and that was that, thus ensuring the deaths of millions of stalins own people, due to bullshittery that was the soviet empire and due to stalin being far far up his own ass (and according to those tasteful male nudes he was so infatuated with drawing, maybe the asses of others as well)
"Russia" as in terms of landmass and as the empire, is a fuckin strange place, always been and always will be.
(Edited 1 minute later.)