Trotsky, Leon
1879-1940 61 years
1879-1940 61 years
aka: Lev Davidovich Bronstein (original name),
"Trotsky" was a taken name.
Bolshevik revolutionary in Russia, writer
born in a wealthy Jewish farming family
5th child
communist theorist, leader of the Red Army,
Politburo, etc....
married, 2 children
expelled from Russia by Stalin after the revolution
went to Mexico, befriended artist Diego Rivera,
wrote history of the Russian revolution times
assasinated in Mexico by Stalin's security forces
with an ice-axe to the back of the head.
"Trotsky" was a taken name.
Bolshevik revolutionary in Russia, writer
born in a wealthy Jewish farming family
5th child
communist theorist, leader of the Red Army,
Politburo, etc....
married, 2 children
expelled from Russia by Stalin after the revolution
went to Mexico, befriended artist Diego Rivera,
wrote history of the Russian revolution times
assasinated in Mexico by Stalin's security forces
with an ice-axe to the back of the head.
| YouTube video of Trotsky speaking in English--00:32 |
| oshobob The Living Workshop |
| People in Osho's Talks |
| Just think of Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, coming back and looking at the world – they will start crying. This is the world for which they wasted their whole lives? This is the world for which they hoped and staked their whole lives, gambled with their lives? They could not live their lives because they were trying to change the world. They were trying to change the world because they thought that only when the world had changed according to their wishes would they be able to live – otherwise, how could they live? “How can you live happily in an unhappy world?” – that is the revolutionary’s question. Very significant: “How can you be happy in an unhappy world?” – so he tries to make the world happy... --Osho The Beloved, Vol. 1, ch. 1 |