Seventy-six years after his assassination at the hands of a Stalinist agent, Trotsky remains not only a towering historical personality, but also a figure of acute contemporary political relevance.

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Stalin discussing Trotsky's role in October Revolution as reflected in the actual minutes of the committee meetings. Those damned facts always get in the way of a good Trot lie, don't they?


I am far from denying
Trotsky’s undoubtedly important role in the uprising.
I must say, however, that Trotsky did not play any special
role in the October uprising, nor could he do so;
being chairman of the Petrograd Soviet, he merely carried
out the will of the appropriate Party bodies, which
directed every step that Trotsky took. To philistines like
Sukhanov, all this may seem strange, but the facts, the
true facts, wholly and fully confirm what I say.


Lenin’s resolution on the
uprising was adopted by a majority of 20 against 2,
three abstaining. A practical centre was elected for
the organisational leadership of the uprising. Who was
elected to this centre? The following five: Sverdlov,
Stalin, Dzerzhinsky, Bubnov, Uritsky. The functions
of the practical centre: to direct all the practical organs
of the uprising in conformity with the directives of the
Central Committee. Thus, as you see, something “terrible”
happened at this meeting of the Central Committee, i.e.,
“strange to relate,” the “inspirer,” the “chief
figure,” the “sole leader” of the uprising, Trotsky, was
not elected to the practical centre, which was called upon
to direct the uprising. How is this to be reconciled with
the current opinion about Trotsky’s special role? Is not
all this somewhat “strange,” as Sukhanov, or the Trotskyites,
would say? And yet, strictly speaking, there is nothing
strange about it, for neither in the Party, nor in
the October uprising, did Trotsky play any special role,
nor could he do so, for he was a relatively new man in
our Party in the period of October.

My emphases.

Much more at the site: http://www.marx2mao.com/PDFs/StWorks6.pdf