This one goes out to the latest BMF ban (rip, flew too close to the privatized sun)

Okay I didn't ask you but what do you think Trotsky was doing?

I don't particularly care. He did some good organizing the red army, but that doesn't absolve him of everything. Acting like trotsky singlehandidly won the day is silly.

Stalin wasn't even in Russia in February, and before October he was like politicking and being kind of a centrist. Lenin was in hiding (but writing and directing) and Stalin was dragging his feet on setting a date for the revolution. They were all in St. Petersburg, fighting an uphill battle, incredibly unpopular until some time in August, dodging the police and trying to do a revolution.

being a centrist how? Im sorry but the meaning of 'centrist' is not when 'doesn't make decisions fast enough for me'. there are actual political definitions for these kinds of things. I also don't care where he was at the beginning, because if we're going there im going to bring up the fact trotsky was a menshevik before throwing in his hat when it was obvious who was winning. Not exactly loyal material. This whole sentence reeks of pure ideology.

I guess I'm gonna get piled on now. I really just wanted to know what people think Stalin was doing but let's get this over with

I don't care about your silly dramatics, go boo hoo somewhere else