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He would use force to get his own views across to the public using Cheka. This also led him to fall out with his old friends such as Georgi Plekhanov and Yuli Martov. This also meant he went to war with his most loyal supporters, the Kronstadt Sailors. He was also responsible for the economic problems that he put Russia into. Russia took such a pounding economically, because of World War I that Lenin forced Trotsky to sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.

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