[dennisw]

You make a mountain from a molehill. Lame. Do I rate Trotsky ahead of Lenin, Stalin, Mao? You better believe it.

[Captain Kirk]

Trotsky was a true believer commie when compared to Lenin. He supported the concept of conscripted industrial armies (which Lenin rejected) and slamed Lenin's more free market New Economic Policy as a "capitalist sell-out." Had Trotsky ever gained power, there is every reason to believe he would have governed as the Russian version of Pol Pot.