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Leon Trotsky
According to “Goodreads.com” Leon Trotsky quoted, “Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.” The meaning of this quote is that life is hard, people and frustration will bring you down in all shapes or forms, until you get an idea that’s greater than all of the other thoughts you have and rise you above everyone and everything else.
Now I’m going to start talking about Leon Trotsky’s life. The beginning, middle and the end of his life. Leon Davidovich Trotsky was born in 1879. He grew up as a Bolshevik and was a theorist for Marxism. He was also a commissioner for foreign affairs.
According to Biography.com, He was born into Marxism and Bolshevik. He was born in Kherson Province, Ukraine. His family was wealthy but illiterate. He went to the school of Odessa education when he was 9. Later on in 1896 he moved to Nikolayev, Ukraine to go to his last years of school. While being a good student he was also a kid that messed around outside of school also. He protested against his teacher in 2nd grade.
Trotsky helped found the Russian workers Union in 1897. He had got arrested and got sentenced to two years in prison before being sent to Siberia for a four year long sentence. While he was in Siberia he met and married Alexandra Lvovna. She had been sentenced to Siberia because of being a co-revolutionary. They had 2 daughters while being held in Siberia.
According to Goodreads.com, After he only spent 2 years in Siberia, he had escaped and abandoned his daughters and wife. Trotsky managed to forge papers for his passport named,...

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... that was going to fight over. Trotsky wanted to make the Germans wait so maybe the plan would be lost. Although, Lenin felt that peace should be made between Germany and Russia.
Animal Farm was a good example of how his life and others life’s were. Trotsky was to be murdered by Stalin, just like in the book where Napolean sent his army dogs after Snowball to kill him.

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