And in reality, trotksy probably would have caused the union to collapse, due to his fanaticism that blinded him, and the probability that he would not have been able to solve the utter fucking mess that was the soviet political system that was tearing the country apart.
It is unlikely that trotsky could have won the spanish civil war, because the republicans, anarchists, and other factions hated each other, and it infamously led to the republicans disarming other groups and using their weapons for their cause, unless trotsky intervined directly, the civil war would have still been won by the fascists, and if he did intervene directly, then I doubt that hitler, or the league would have allowed it.
