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Stg people just think up something the most obnoxious man of all time would do and attribute it to Trotsky. This has to be the only explanation lol
There is absolutely no way the patron saint of arrogant math professors with zero social skills assembled the red army wtf
I also don't think this story is true because
Trotsky only lived in New York for 2 months, so he probably did not have enough time to develop a "favorite" restaurant
Trotsky says in his autobiography that he spent almost all of his waking hours reading, writing, and going to meetings about socialism. This was during WWI and all the socialist parties were in disarray and chaos about what to do next.
Trotsky barely spoke English (his main languages were Ukrainian, Russian, French, and German, and he was literally trying to learn English on the boat ride over to New York), so the idea of him trying to "convince other patrons" to not tip in broken English seems very silly to me.
Counterpoint: Having a favorite restaurant after less than 2 months is very much a thing someone as annoying as trotsky would do. It's very much a "dumbass who just moved to NYC"-thing