"Under the Sign of Scorpion" by Juri - Gnostic Liberation Front

that the Bolsheviks stay out of Poland, Lithuania, Courland and also
Livonia, Estonia, Finland and the Ukraine. The Bolsheviks were not
allowed to crush Finland. Lenin and Trotsky were forced to comply with
the German demands on the 3rd of March 1918. (Nootti, Helsinki, No. 4,
1989.)
At the beginning of 1921, Trotsky wanted an immediate incorporation
of Georgia in the Soviet Union. He received support from Joseph Stalin
and Grigori (Sergo) Ordzhonikidze. Trotsky had a plan worked out
straight away and Soviet agents took over power in the province of
Borchalin on February 12, 1921. On the 16th of February the Georgian
Soviet Republic was declared in Shulaveri and the revolutionary
committee asked Moscow for help. One day later the Soviet troops who
had been waiting by the border began the attack on the Georgian republic.
On the 25th of February the Red Army took Tiflis (Tbilisi), Georgia's
capital. The action was completed. The Bolsheviks immediately began
killing the intellectuals. Trotsky also made plans to invade Armenia and
Iran, but the last plan failed.
Trotsky was very disappointed that it was impossible to occupy the
Baltic states. In January 1918, Lenin complained to Trotsky: "It would be
very unfortunate if we must give up socialist Estonia."
Trotsky as an Anti-Intellectual
The claim about Trotsky's liberal attitude to the arts is also a fabrication.
He believed that the Communist Party should have a monopoly on culture
and the arts. It was Trotsky who forced socialist realism on the artists.
Landscape paintings could not be made in the Sahara, in his opinion.
Neither did he believe in the existence of free imagination. He demanded
that all artists should follow the line of realism. It was also Trotsky who
dealt out political certificates to the authors, without which they could not
continue working at all. Trotsky decided what was allowed to be depicted
and not. Both Lenin and Trotsky believed everything created outside the
Marxist doctrine was anti-social art.
Mikhail Bulgakov was given the task of writing a Communist play. He
refused. There were few authors who dared to refuse. Afterwards, he had
no chance to publish himself. In 1929, Bulgakov wrote to Gorky: "Why
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