Hypothesize (explain) how the Soviet Union would have been different if Trotsky had taken leadership
after Lenin's death instead of Stalin.

The Soviet Union would of annexed all of their satellite states, and it would of declared war on neighboring countries for the sake of spreading Communism. Trotsky was a huge believer in an international Communist state, and thought all other ideologies were inferior.

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“the battle of stalingrad is not a turning point necessarily in strategic terms, because a lot more has to be done before the soviets can be certain of defeating germany,” says renowned world war ii historian richard overy. the germans had fought nearly a thousand miles across the soviet union to get to stalingrad.