What did Leon Trotsky do in Exile? (Short Animated Documentary)

Everyone knows that Trotsky was kicked out of the USSR and remained in exile until 1940. When Ice Axe. But what did he do during his exile? Find out in this short and simple animated history documentary.

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[plummye]

"What did Trotsky do in exile?"
Get exiled 3 more times

[Betojb]

"More like Poo-SSR"
"More like Stal-out"
Priceless.

[TheLoneTerran]

I like how Trotsky just looked mildly annoyed when being assassinated.

[chrisphoenix]

"Drake? Where's Trotsky?"
"Dude, he was right here a second ago..."
*Government being overthrown in the distance*

[Man-O-Little-Tan]

"Trotsky was calling for the french workers to go on strike" well that shouldn't be too difficult

[corporalzeph]

"What did Leon Trotsky do in exile?"
Stalin: Die.

[Clancy]

I love how this man if left unsupervised just has the ability to overthrow governments.

[RIFLQ]

Countries: Please behave.


Trotsky: So anyway I started blasting.

[suunxSpirit]

I love how one man with no direct power was such a concern for so many countries

[christopherjustice]

Trotsky meeting Ataturk is the weirdest yet most brilliant crossover I’ve ever heard.

[petartoshkov]

He wasn't in exile. He was on an extended vacation with no return

[tinyupes]

Can you do: What did Napoleon do in Elba?

[darkraven]

Congress: Hey, you wanna come give a speech?

Trotsky: Yes! It will be about Stalin Being evil and telling the workers of America to strike and overthrow the Capitalists!

Congress: Aaaaand never mind.

[richardgonzalez]

Lenin: i was exiled once from my country
Napoleon: hah! i was exiled twice!
Trotsky: hold my vodka

[MatthewSchellenberg]

If I remember correctly, Trotsky's assassin got a girlfriend who worked at Trotsky's place in Mexico City and over months he would drop her off and pick her up from work. He casually befriended the guards, never asking about Trotsky. In fact he never even asked his girlfriend about Trotsky. Eventually he gained their trust and was able to walk about the compound. After several more weeks of this, he sensed his opportunity, assassinated Trotsky and fled all the way back to Russia and was given a hero's welcome.
I think I heard that story on "What we saw - cold war" podcast.

[CDexie]

Trotsky's address to the U.S. Congress would have been VERY interesting.

[jackedgar]

Glad my favourite book, "More like Poo-s-s-r" got a shoutout

[Collectorfirearms]

And France lived up to it's morals... Nope just kidding

That was the best line

[givrally]

1:40 "The prime minister (he changed every five minutes at this point)"
I love how this one sentence could be a video in and of itself, but it's in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment.

[TheMCzorro]

0:07 I love Trotsky's eye animation in that moment, Mercader plunges an iceaxe into Trotsky's head and Trotsky's like "Seriously?"