Where did you find this "Trotsky" quote? Can I know the context and when he made it? Did he write that, or is a part of a speech? It seems that today Trotsky is still "salonfaehig" for some red idealists. I'd like to improve my knowledge about this person.
This quote is from one Russian film.
More interesting informations about Trotzky is in Russian, one very interesting books wrote unnamed bolshevik commisarwhat was written in 1937y. in the U.S.A..
Interesting is a book by Anthony Sutton WALL STREET AND THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION. Something from his book:
..."It is quite remarkable that the committee adjourned abruptly before the source of Trotsky's funds could be placed into the Senate record. When questioning resumed the next day, Trotsky and his $10,000 were no longer of interest to the Overman Committee. We shall later develop evidence concerning the financing of German and revolutionary activities in the United States by New York financial houses; the origins of Trotsky's $10,000 will then come into focus.
An amount of $10,000 of German origin is also mentioned in the official British telegram to Canadian naval authorities in Halifax, who requested that Trotsky and party en route to the revolution be taken off the S.S. Kristianiafjord (see page 28). We also learn from a British Directorate of Intelligence report4 that Gregory Weinstein, who in 1919 was to become a prominent member of the Soviet Bureau in New York, collected funds for Trotsky in New York. These funds originated in Germany and were channeled through the Volks-zeitung, a German daily newspaper in New York and subsidized by the German government."... (interesting is a part CANADIAN GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS ON TROTSKY'S RELEASE in this book)
..."President Woodrow Wilson was the fairy godmother who provided Trotsky with a passport to return to Russia to "carry forward" the revolution. This American passport was accompanied by a Russian entry permit and a British transit visa. Jennings C. Wise, in Woodrow Wilson: Disciple of Revolution, makes the pertinent comment, "Historians must never forget that Woodrow Wilson, despite the efforts of the British police, made it possible for Leon Trotsky to enter Russia with an American passport."...all book is here:
http://www.reformed-theology.org/html/books/bolshevik_revolution/ (Sutton wrote on the basis of dokuments, you can prove it)
BTW, what is mean "salonfaehig", I do not know this word and I never saw it.
