I hit ‘Play.’ Within three minutes, Trotsky and Larissa Reissner are having sex on a train. She’s naked and he’s clothed head to toe in leather. She’s in the throes of passion and he wears a blank, pitiless expression; he doesn’t appear to be enjoying himself. The train plunges phallically through the Russian countryside. Reissner’s voiceover chants a poem about death.
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Great article. I didn’t make it past the first episode either. Unfortunately, this kind of crude anti-socialist propaganda is the only source of “information” a lot of people in Russia, the Baltic states and elsewhere have about Trotsky, Lenin etc.
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My impression is that the writers did no real research, just got a basic summary of events and personalities then filled in all the detail using only their own imaginations
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