Lenin and Trotsky wanted to eliminate Russian Nationalism from the Soviet Union.
Stalin, on the other hand, ordered the “Russification” of the Soviet Union.
Stalin, on the other hand, ordered the “Russification” of the Soviet Union.
Both statements are true, however both failed their intended goals significantly.
Lenin and Trotsky were both Western European manufactured Communists from the Socialist climate that went International in the second half of the Nineteenth Century, and over time, morphed into the current (European) Globalist far Leftist Cabal.
Lenin and Trotsky were effectively trained and primed to take Russian Communism International, and Lenin immediately did while Trotsky took Communism International to save his own life, yes, I am smiling.
Interestingly, Stalin, (a Rus denigrating Georgian shill) looked to the Rus to use the power of tribal loyalty and devotion. He certainly did not value the Rus as a people or individuals, because he killed and filled his gulags with so many of extraordinary high value to the Russian Nation and culture.
Stalin did build an Empire, ...but it was built by theft from the Rus and Slavs and handouts from the West, not innovation and productivity.