re: #194 000G

Funny, the thing with Trotsky. Him being Stalin’s enemy, for a lot of Lefties who had to navigate in a post-stalinistic world, he became their hero even before Lenin. IIRC, even Christopher Hitchens still recently flirted with Trotsky.

From what little I know, he wasn’t exactly a choir boy during the civil war and the revolution, either…

Sure, he was a thug like the rest of them. Which is why I feel a minimum amount of pity for the actors in the staged Moscow trials.