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Jiang says Trotsky supplied charisma and transnational-capital links, while Lenin supplied fanatical focus.
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Trotsky
The Bolsheviks won the civil war because their enemies had no reform program, the Bolsheviks used terror, and Trotsky made the Red Army brutally effective.
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Stalin beats Trotsky partly because Trotsky becomes associated with Jewish/transnational-capital betrayal after capital refuses to rebuild Russia.
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The Bolsheviks won the civil war because their enemies had no reform program, the Bolsheviks used terror, and Trotsky made the Red Army brutally effective.
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Jiang contrasts Lenin and Trotsky as internationalist theorists with Stalin as a nationalist power-seeker who wanted communism secured inside the Soviet Union.
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Stalin's victory depended on loyalty performances, talent selection, silence, underestimated retreat, and encouraging rivals' self-destruction rather than on superior theory or speeches.
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"...extremely focused. He's very focused. He's fanatical. And this is Leon Trotsky, who is very charismatic, he's a great speaker, and he's a Jew,..."
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"...Bolsheviks consolidate power, after they win civil war, everyone assumes that Trotsky would be the new leader. But it's Stalin that becomes the new..."
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"...won. All right. So let's go over the difference between Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin. Leon Trotsky did not work for transnational capital. Okay?..."
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"...revolution because they all got killed by Joseph Stalin, okay? Leon Trotsky was killed along with all his children. All right. So it's not..."
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"a coup d 'etat against provisional government and this will eventually lead to something called the russian civil war and at this time in..."
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"...russian people the last reason the most important reason is leon trotsky leon trotsky or leon leon trotsky or leon leon trotsky organizes the..."
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"backhoe a blocker will shoot you to death okay so it is brutal but it works very effectively okay so he turns the red..."
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"...All right. So ultimately, Stalin will triumph. Why? Because Lenin and Trotsky, his two main competitors, were egomaniacs who wanted to be proved right...."
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"...nationalist. And ultimately, it is Stalin who will triumph over Leon Trotsky and Vladimir Lenin and create his code of personality in the Soviet..."
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"...positions and let others despise you. So Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky were tremendous orators, okay? They were brilliant. The problem, though, is that..."
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"...they are and help them become their worst selves, okay? So Trotsky lost out because Trotsky was a tremendous egomaniac."
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"...fanatical about this, and that's why they won the war. Leon Trotsky organized the Red Army in the war against the White Army, okay?..."
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