Michael Malice
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And he stalled, he stalled.
And at a certain point, Germany's like, all right, you're signing this tomorrow or we're invading.
And Trotsky basically said, yeah, so we're leaving the war, but we're not signing anything.
And the Germans are like-
It's like, yeah, well, that's what we're doing.
And basically, eventually he had to sign the treaty and cede huge parts of the land and a lot of money.
And this was a very precarious moment for him to maintain control of Russia.
And people were telling him like, you've lost huge amounts of territory.
You've blown it.
You should be in jail.
And he's like, watch your mouth.
Because if you look forward to the future, it'll be clear which one of us is more likely to be the one ending up in jail.
And he was absolutely right.
This was Trotsky or Lenin saying this?
This was Lenin saying this to Karl Radek.
Well, Trotsky came late to Bolshevism.
He was really the brains in many ways of the October Revolution.
He was an amazing strategist.