link if you wanthttps://archive.is/9D6Zw
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Surprised to have to go this deep into the replies to find an ice pick reference. Bravo!
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pretty unfair of you to define the start of history in a way that doesn't support their argument
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I mean I think the general idea is true, Trotsky was an exception even for Soviet dissidents.
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Though the trend of exile being less safe also coincides with it being less dangerous for the govt that exiled them. Sure you see dissidents invited by revolutionaries, but the days of forming a private army and retaking power/restarting a civil war ended w/Bay of Pigs.
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Just waiting for the inevitable "exile is a fancy word for vacation" t-shirt
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Imagining Trotsky wearing one of those oddly targeted Facebook t-shirts, saying YES I am a **menshevik** Born in NOVEMBER
Exiled
to Siberia

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Well if that's not a canary in a coal mine I don't know what is
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Often functions as a way for the ousted to loot their homeland with impunity and park their assets abroad indefinitely, or wage political warfare sponsored by enemy powers.
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