Lev Trotsky the creator of the Red Army - Justified and about the Stalinist trials, Mexico, 1938

Lev Davidovich Trotsky (real name Lev Davidovich Bronstein; October 26 (November 7), 1879 – August 21, 1940) was a Russian revolutionary, an active participant in the Russian and international socialist and communist movements, a Soviet statesman, party leader, and military-political figure, and the founder and ideologist of Trotskyism. He was one of the organizers of the October Revolution, the creator of the Red Army, and one of the founders of the Comintern.