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Frank Jackson (the pseudonym of Stalinist agent Ramón Mercader) is represented in the show as an honest, critical and sensitive Stalinist journalist who establishes a relationship with Trotsky in order to write his biography. In his old age, he suffers from hallucinations, tormented by remorse over his “crimes” during the revolution.ģ. Against all historical evidence and in contradiction with the views of his contemporaries, Trotsky’s personality is shown as egocentric, messianic, authoritarian and competitive, which the show implicitly links to his Jewish roots. These falsehoods were refuted back in 1937 by the Dewey Commission, a special investigation conducted in Mexico which absolved Trotsky of the charges leveled against him during the Moscow Trials.Ģ. Nevertheless, the show perpetuates the very same lies employed by imperialists, Tsarists and Stalinists in the 20th century in order to undermine Trotsky and his followers as the bureaucratization of the USSR progressed.
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While the series is not strictly a documentary, its creators allege that it is based on fact.
Here are some of the main historical falsifications presented in the show:ġ.
What is Putin’s aim in giving in this show a new lease of life to the falsehoods surrounding Trotsky? Why heap further abuse on past revolutionaries when Russia has already restored capitalism and nothing seems to seriously challenge the new Russian bourgeoisie or Putin, who has run the country for the last 18 years? And why would Netflix, a media outlet reaching millions of people in the world, choose to stream a series like this?
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Knowing Putin’s own Stalinist past as a director of the KGB and his undisguised nostalgia for Tsarist Great Russia, one could hardly expect Russian state TV to commission a series that honestly and objectively portrays the life and work of the man who was, along with Lenin, the most important leader of the October Revolution. Why is it, a hundred years after the Russian Revolution, that Vladimir Putin’s state-run broadcaster has chosen Leon Trotsky as the subject for this big-budget TV production? While the historical inaccuracy of the series is obvious to even the most amateur historian, its very existence raises an important question. The show, which first premiered on the popular state-controlled Channel One of the Russian Federation in November 2017 claims to be a portrait of the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky but is really little more than a political attack disguised as historical drama. US entertainment company Netflix recently broadcast the mini-series Trotsky, directed by Alexander Kott and Konstantin Statsky. Netflix and the Russian Government Join Forces to Spread Lies About Trotsky At the same time, we understand that this initiative must not be patrimony of any one specific current, but of all who stand for the historical truth on Leon Trotsky’s work. The IWL-FI joins this manifesto and we call more organizations and figures to subscribe it as a way to reject the lies and slander disseminated by the series. It is a gross and unacceptable falsification of the history of the Great Russian revolutionary. The Netflix Company is reproducing a series produced by the Putin administration about Leon Trotsky’s life.
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