[BroJoeK]

"Trotsky was a complete and utter non-factor in the war - he sat the whole thing out in Mexico. "

Trotsky was murdered by Stalin's agent in Mexico, in August 1940.

So, you might say, Trotsky "sat out" the war in his grave. ;-)

[wideawake]

LOL! To be honest I thought he was killed in 1942. I don’t know why.