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Trying to fall asleep, I had a strange thought (my mind wanders quite a bit). How would have Trotsky handled WWII?

-Would the Soviet Union have industrialized as fast without Stalin's brutal force?
-What would the Soviet Union even look like in 1940?
-Would the Gulag system be as expansive without Stalin?
-Would Trotsky have bought into the 1939 Non-Agro Pact?
-Would he have been blind to the obvious attack in 1941?
-What about after the war, assuming the Soviets won. Would their have been a communist wave over Eastern Europe?
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