Another view of Stalin by Ludo Martens Page A

note, the last surviving Lenin  document, is at the same time the final summation of his relations with Stalin.'
     
    Trostky, Stalin, p. 375.
     
     
    Years later, in 1927, the united opposition of Trotsky,  Zinoviev  and Kamenev  tried once again to use this `will' against the Party leadership. In a public declaration, Stalin said:
     
    `The oppositionists shouted here ... that the Central Committee of the Party ``concealed'' Lenin's  ``will.'' We have discussed this question several times at the plenum of the Central Committee and Central Control Commission .... (A voice: ``Scores of times.'') It has been proved and proved again that nobody has concealed anything, that Lenin's  ``will'' was addressed to the Thirteenth Party Congress, that this ``will'' was read out at the congress ( voices: ``That's right!''), that the congress unanimously decided not to publish it because, among other things, Lenin  himself did not want it to be published and did not ask that it should be published.'
     
    Stalin, The Trotskyist  Opposition Before and Now, p. 178.
     
     
    `It is said in that ``will'' Comrade Lenin  suggested to the congress that in view of Stalin's ``rudeness'' it should consider the question of putting another comrade in Stalin's place as General Secretary. That is quite true. Yes, comrades, I am rude to those who grossly and perfidiously wreck and split the Party. I have never concealed this and do not conceal it now .... At the very first meeting of the plenum of the Central Committee after the Thirteenth Congress I asked the plenum of the Central Committee to release me from my duties as General Secretary. The congress discussed this question. It was discussed by each delegation separately, and all the delegations unanimously, including Trotsky,  Kamenev  and Zinoviev,  obliged Stalin to remain at his post ....
     
    `A year later I again put in a request to the plenum to release me, but I was obliged to remain at my post.'
     
    Ibid. , pp. 180--181.
     
     
    But Trotsky's  intrigues around this `will' were not the worst that he had to offer. At the end of his life, Trotsky  went to the trouble to accuse Stalin of having killed Lenin! 
     
    And to make this unspeakable accusation, Trotsky  used his `thoughts and suspicions' as sole argument!
     
    In his book, Stalin, Trotsky  wrote:
     
    `What was Stalin's actual role at the time of Lenin's  illness? Did not the disciple do something to expedite his master's death?'
     
    Trotsky,  Stalin, p. 372.
     
     
    `(O)nly Lenin's  death could clear the way for Stalin.'
     
    Ibid. , p. 376.
     
     
    `I am firmly convinced that Stalin could not have waited passively when his fate hung by a thread.'
     
    Ibid. , p. 381.
     
     
    Of course, Trotsky  gave no proof whatsoever in support of his charge, but he did write that the idea came to him when `toward the end of February, 1923, at a meeting of the Politburo ..., Stalin informed us ... that Lenin  had suddenly called him in and had asked him for poison. Lenin  ... considered his situation hopeless, foresaw the approach of a new stroke, did not trust his physicians ..., he suffered unendurably.'
     
    Ibid. , p. 376.
     
     
    At the time, listening to Stalin, Trotsky  almost unmasked Lenin's  future assassin! He wrote:
     
    `I recall how extraordinary, enigmatic and out of tune with the circumstances Stalin's face seemd to me .... a sickly smile was transfixed on his face, as on a mask.'
     
    Ibid.
     
     
    Let's follow Inspector Clousot-Trotsky  in his investigation. Listen to this:
     
    `(H)ow and why did Lenin,  who at the time was extremely suspicious of Stalin, turn to him with such a request Lenin  saw in Stalin the only man who would grant his tragic request, since he was directly interested in doing so .... (he) guessed ... how Stalin really felt about him.'
     
    Ibid. , p. 377.
     
     
    Just try to write, with this kind of argument, a book accusing Prince Albert of Belgium of having poisoned his