this song is about the great purges in 1936 wherein stalin ordered the killing of all bolsheviks opposed to his policy numbering in thousands killed. of the original bolshevik leaders of the october revolution of 1917 only he and trotsky, the leader of left opposition were left, the latter was later killed by stalin's order in 1940 in mexico. the chorus refers to the eventual collapse of the soviet union as predicted by trotsky which would not happen unless the workers themselves took power away from the bureaucrats.
this song is about the great purges in 1936 wherein stalin ordered the killing of all bolsheviks opposed to his policy numbering in thousands killed. of the original bolshevik leaders of the october revolution of 1917 only he and trotsky, the leader of left opposition were left, the latter was later killed by stalin's order in 1940 in mexico. the chorus refers to the eventual collapse of the soviet union as predicted by trotsky which would not happen unless the workers themselves took power away from the bureaucrats.