Well, that nicely fits him into a small box...
Doug
On 2012-08-18, at 1:09 AM, chris Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 18/08/12 00:18, Douglas Barbour wrote:
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>> And the prescient quote from Trotsky...
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> Trotsky has been rehabilitated, somewhat.... (yeah, so an ex-trot)
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> The official web site of the Russian Ministry of Culture, which oversees the State Museum of Political History, stated in its commentary about the exhibition: “A professional revolutionary and political figure, Trotsky was one of the leaders of the October insurrection of the Bolsheviks in Petrograd; he made no small contribution to the establishment of the Soviet state and the creation of the Red Army during the Civil War.”
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