Yes but not exactly. The "war" quote is actually a paraphrase.
Leon Lev Trotsky. He actually said "war, Comrades, is a great locomotive of history". Dec 28,1922 Source: Report on the Communist International
Leon Trotsky was a large reason why they won the civil war, becaue he was the Commissar of War and the one who organized the Red Army into a coherent military force. He was certainly not the only reason though, since a large part of the Russian populace supported the Bolsheviks and the Red Army against the White forces.
Trotsky lead the Red Army. So, he could be given most of the credit for winning.
"Say Shava Shava"
Immediately after the revolution, Trotsky became the first Commissar of Foreign Affairs. Then at the outset of the Russian Civil War he became Commissar of War. He organized the Red Army in order to fight the opposing White Russian forces.
leon trotsky
Lenin was leader of Bolsheviks and Trotsky was second in command until Lenin died in 1924. Lenin had appointed Trotsky People's Commissar for External Affairs after the October Revolution. Then, when the Russian Civil War broke out, Lenin appointed him Commissar of War. Lenin had picked Trotsky over Stalin to succed him but Trotsky lost out to Stalin and others for the right to succeed Lenin. Stalin managed to expel Trotsky from the Communist Party and then from the country. In 1940, Stalin had a Russian agent murder Trotsky.
Trotsky led the Bolshevik/Communist Red Army forces in the Russian Civil War after the October Revolution of 1917.
Leon Lev Trotsky. He actually said "war, Comrades, is a great locomotive of history". Dec 28,1922 Source: Report on the Communist International
Leon Trotsky accused Joseph Stalin of being a tyrant and demanded democracy. Although Lenin wanted Trotsky to assume leadership after his death, Stalin's supporters out-maneuvered Trotsky. Stalin suppressed Lenin's will and manipulated Trotsky out of his post of Commissioner of War as well as out of the Politburo.
Leon Trotsky was a large reason why they won the civil war, becaue he was the Commissar of War and the one who organized the Red Army into a coherent military force. He was certainly not the only reason though, since a large part of the Russian populace supported the Bolsheviks and the Red Army against the White forces.
Trotsky lead the Red Army. So, he could be given most of the credit for winning.
By an armoured train
Writing from exile, Trotsky believed that World War Two would be the causal factor for a true workers' revolution in the USSR. The Stalinist bureaucracy would crumble under the pressure of the war and a true Soviet "democracy" , in a Trotsky meaning of "democracy" would emerge with the fall of Stalin.
"Say Shava Shava"
Absolutely not. In fact he was Commissar of War during the Russian Civil War. He organized it into an efficient military force and used it to defeat the opposition forces in the Civil War. Far from hating militarism, Trotsky believed in its use in order to preserve what was gained by the revolutions.
Trotsky took no part in World War II as he was murdered in Mexico City, Mexico in 1940.