There isn't really a very good answer for this question because of how Stalin and Trotsky both altered the facts to suit their own aims. It's just your own opinion now.
Bolshevik revolutionary leader was Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky?
Bolshevik revolutionary leader was Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky
No, David Axelrod is not the grandson of Leon Trotsky. David Axelrod is a political consultant and former chief strategist for Barack Obama, while Leon Trotsky was a Marxist revolutionary and a key figure in the Russian Revolution. They are not related.
Leon Trotsky was the founder of the Red Army. He was the People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs of the RSFSR from 1917 to 1918. He was a Marxist and a revolutionary. Trotsky lived from 1879 to 1940 when he was assassinated.
Leon Trotsky believed that a revolutionary movement, once in power had to deal with the question of repression. For Trotsky the form of repression or the degree of repression was not one involved with principles. It was a matter of expediency.
In 1905, Leon Trotsky was in Petersburg. There he spent his time writing for two revolutionary newspapers. One was The Russian World and the other, The Beginning was a Menshevik newspaper.
Leon Trotsky was represented by Snowball. One of the revolutionary leaders that was actually up for the cause to improve life but chased away by Napoleon (who was represented Joseph Stalin).
Leon Trotsky was murdered in 1940.
Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky.