The Man Who Saved the Russian Revolution Was Murdered by Stalin

Added: 2026-05-21

[00:00:00]The man who saved the Russian Revolution was murdered by the revolution he created. It's 1917, Petrograd, Russia. A brilliant orator named Leon Trotsky stands beside Lenin as they overthrow the Tsar. When civil war erupts, Trotsky becomes war commissar. He transforms peasant militias into the Red Army, racing between battlefronts in his armored train. White armies attack from all sides. Foreign troops invade Russian soil. Against impossible odds, Trotsky's [music] forces crush them all. His genius saves the Bolsheviks. Lenin calls him the future of the party. For a time, he's the second most powerful man in the Soviet Union. But Stalin watches from the shadows, building his network quietly. When Lenin dies, the succession battle begins. Stalin outmaneuvers Trotsky politically, turning party leaders against the war hero. Trotsky faces exile in 1929.

[00:00:59]He flees to Turkey, then France, then Mexico. Stalin's agents hunt him across continents. In Mexico City, they finally corner him. An ice pick [music] crashes into his skull in his own study. The military genius who created the Red Army was Leon Trotsky.