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What if…
TROTSKY HAD COME TO POWER?

Might Trotsky’s
dictatorship
have ended in a
military coup and
his suicide?

O The Stalin-Ribbentrop pact O Opening of the Eastern Front O Turn of the tide O Trotsky under pressure O End of the Trotsky regime
Trotsky senses the danger With the Red Army controlled The struggle continues on, but The death toll of the war puts Despite Stalin’s exile, the
of Hitler and moves to ease by old-school generals, the thanks to a lack of purges, the Trotsky’s popularity at an all- military leadership has had
relations. Stalin is sent to Wehrmacht are very successful. Red Army eventually gains the time low. Stalin attempts a enough and stages a coup.
negotiate as the two nations Trotsky is under pressure as upper hand. However, it is in a coup but is unsuccessful. He is Trotsky, seeing that all is lost,
sign the pact of non-aggression. Tukhachevsky is unable to deal critical condition. World War II banished from the USSR for life commits suicide in his office. A © Ian Hinley
23 August 1939 with the Blitzkrieg. June 1941 will be a pyrrhic victory. 1943 as punishment. 1946 new era is about to begin. 1947
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