Excuse me Mr. Trotsky, may I axe you a question?

Joesph Stalin was not a man to just let a grudge die. As you will see in a future post I will demonstrate other ways where he would not only kill you but also your memory after you were gone. Indeed, he would try to make sure any trace of you was gone. His rage however, was not something that could be contained by borders of the Soviet Union as demonstrated by the murder of his one time chief rival and founder of the Red Army, Leon Trotsky. Leon Trotsky was for many years the right hand man of Vladimir Lenin, the father of the Bolshevik Party and leader of the worlds first Marxist nation. However, Lenin did not live long after taking the reins, his health in steady decline from May 1922 and onward after he suffered the first of his three strokes...it seemed that the leader of the Red Army and fellow founding father of he USSR, Leon Trotsky would take the reins as Lenin faded. The Russian Civil War was still on when Lenin had his first stroke and that made Trotsky the second