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.