Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-24577079-20150203011715/@comment-32656-20150208124110

As stated Trotsky, while no doubt someone who would have made a good leader, had no support in the party. It's part of why Stalin was able to get him out of the way so easily. Absent Stalin, he is still unlikely to come to power. Got me as to who, mind, of the top of my head, but not Trotsky.

Not as industrialized, but also with a far better led army in all ways. Bet on all that idiot pocketing near the start of Barbarossa not happening, for example.