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Two PODs. Firstly, let's say Trotsky avoids being assassinated in 1940. Otherwise, assume one of these "limited Nazi victory" scenarios: Britain drops out of the war in 1940, the United States fights and wins the Pacific War, but not against Germany, the Nazis conquer or puppetize everything between the English Channel and the Urals, the Soviet Union survives as a rump state in Central Asia and Siberia, the Cold War is between the Third Reich and an Anglo-American alliance, etc. You know the drill.

Now, I have no idea if there's a consensus on how long Trotsky would have lived had he avoided being assassinated (I know he had health problems), but assuming he lived to witness the postwar world ITTL, how might he react, beyond loudly fulminating about how none of this would have happened had he been in charge of the USSR (in his opinion)? Might the Americans or British find any use for him? What about the USSR - assuming Stalin dies in the fighting, might this rump state, given the dire straits they've found themselves in, seek to rehabilitate Trotsky?
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