Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky, born Lev Davidovich Bronstein, is a Soviet political dissident. Originally a military leader and government mastermind in the Soviet Union, Trotsky was believed by many to be the destined heir of Vladimir Lenin, but never came to be. Trotsky witnessed the brutal rise of Joseph Stalin as the country's leader, and was removed of his political positions and exiled in 1929, in which he was welcomed by German leader Walter Ulbricht as a refugee and later recognised citizen of the German Socialist Republic. In the coming predicted Roterkrieg, or Red War, Ulbricht promised that a fallen Soviet government would have Trotsky implemented as its rightful leader.