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* [[Badass Bookworm]] / [[Badass Israeli|Badass Jew]]: For a guy with no previous military training, Lev Bronstein, AKA Leon Trotsky, proved to be a remarkably skilled military commander, leading the ragtag Red Army to victory at a time when everybody wanted the Bolsheviks dead.
** The reason the seat of government was moved from St. Petersburg to Moscow was because the Bolshevik leadership feared it would fall into Tsarist hands. In fact, when an approaching White army besieged it, they considered the city as good as lost and planned a general evacuation. Trotsky, however, personally took charge of organizing the defence - and managed to break the siege.
**He wasn't the only example of that. A number of Jewish college students took up with the Reds for the reason that they [[Revenge|bone to pick with the Czar and his flunkies]] just for starters, and many were fairly good soldiers some even being badasses. This unfortunately led to the stereotype of "Jewish Bolshevik". Obviously some Jews were Bolsheviks. But Jew and Bolshevik [[Captain Obvious|are not part of the same word.]]
***''Yuri Slezkine in ''The Jewish Century'' describes a tripartite migration of Jews to the Soviet Union, to America, and to Israel.
* [[Badass Longcoat]]: that was pretty much the dress code for the era, with all those greatcoats.
* [[Ballistic Discount]]: the Red "military communism" was essentially an entire economy using [[Ballistic Discount]] instead of money. Redistribution of wealth at gunpoint.
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