The Permanent Revolution: An Alternate Second World War

What should the Trotsky USSR anthem be?

  • The Internationale

    Votes: 34 91.9%
  • State Anthem of the Soviet Union

    Votes: 3 8.1%

  • Total voters
    37
POD: Lenin’s Testament was a letter that privately OTL attacked the soviet figures of Zinoviev, Kamenev, Trotsky, Bukharin, Pyatakov and Stalin. Though as the list suggests, Trotsky was critized as well, but much less harshly than Stalin. What if Trotsky got a hold of this, edited critism of him and his protégés, and used it to discredit those that stood in the way of his goal of Permanent Revolution?

“History is on our side. Currently, the bourgeoisie monopolize most of this Earth. Capitalism in it’s most feral forms are taking power in , Italy, Portugal, and Greece. It consolidates itself in the Colonial British Empire and France. Yet they lack our strength: the power of the working class! Colonial regimes occupy almost the entirety of Asia, Africa, and even the Caribbean! Why should we negotiate with the capitalist class? Numbers are on our side. We don’t need them.
Trotsky’s infamous speech in TBD, marking the beginning of the Second World War.
 
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Vladimir was talking with Konstantin
“So that Georgian is gone I hear.”
“Always seemed sketchy anyway.”
“Apparently we are now getting our first five year plan [1] under direction of Trotsky.”
“We will certainly have to increase productivity, but in turn our conditions will improve and the new equipment should make raising the yield a fine bit easier.”
“Yeah, keep it up and quality communal housing maybe ours.”
1* Five year plans still occur under Trotsky, but due to less Soviet Bureaucratic collectivism, and without Stalin’s brutality and paranoia, it is considerably more both humane and effective.
 
Most everyone else who opposed the revolution saw Leon Trotsky as a terrifying figure, but Pyotr Krasnov had a different perspective. This calamity might be put to a finish if all the “civilized” power united against the “bolshevik menace.”
He began to search for support. Britain didn’t give him much, yet several wealthy conservatives gave him loans. France was far less fruitful. When he toured Germany, many bankrupt Freikorps gave him a respectable supply of arms and munitions.
Yet in the United States he found his greatest hope. Manipulating both the press and the government, he claimed that he only struggled in the name of a democratic Russia, and also compared his struggle to that of George Washington against the British. Soon he set up base in the United States, and was joined by other exiles, notably Anton Denikin, Pyotr Wrangel, Grigory Semyonov.
The flag of the movement was still the liberal revolutionary flag to retain the pre tense of being democratic, however with a crown of thorns in the middle to honor the “heroic” ice march.
Flag of the Russian Interim Government.
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Soon this parliament in exile was
monopolized by Krasnov. All that needed to be done was to wait for the inevitable conflict between “the worlds civilized nations against the bolshevik madmen.”
 
First Five Year Plan
In the First Five Year plan, a seventy five percent increase in industrial output occurred. [1] In Volgograd, a massive tractor plant was built. Rural areas were collectivized and agriculture mechanized, with former Kulaks merely acting as advisors. Productivity increased greatly. [2]
Foreign scientists sympathetic To the revolution arrived to assist with both these schemes and military modernization.
Noticeable the urban rural divide began to began to be bridged, with dwellings improving and even Dacha style communal housing for some. Noticeably improvement began to also occur in Central Asia[3], with the very small industries expanded greatly, and modern farming equipment being distributed.
1. Like OTL Stalingrad, but more modern factory due to foreign expertise and more intellectual freedom.
2. Agriculture fares WAAAY better in this timeline.
3. Trotsky is trying to modernize Central Asia a lot, especially to attract anti colonial comrades further south.
 
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