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The reason why Stalin (Napoleon) strongly blamed on Trotsky (Snowball) was to have a stronger power by himself. During that time, Lenin was in power, and below him were these two people. However, as Lenin passed away, Stalin was very greedy to get the power to control over Russia. However, as Lenin passed away, Lenin claimed that Trotsky would be a better leader to Russia rather than Stalin since he was uncertain about Stalin's ability to control and rule over Russia.

"Comrade Stalin, having become Secretary [of the Communist Party] has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority with sufficient caution. Comrade Trotsky, on the other hand... is distinguished not only by his outstanding capable man in the present CC [central committee] but he has displayed excessive self-assurance and shown excessive preoccupation with the purely administrative side of the work."

As the quote says, Lenin was uncertain about Stalin's ability to rule. By the "uncertainty", a lot of people would have believed that he would not be a trustful leader to lean on since many people still believed and followed Lenin's rules. And so, this would have caused Stalin's status to go down rather than going up after Lenin's death. The greediness of becoming a ruler did not stop him and made Stalin to try anything to become a leader. To become a "great" ruler, he had taken the path in which was defaming his rival, Trotsky. By defaming on Trotsky (who had the support from Lenin), Stalin would have thought he could become stronger, and his plans had worked.

(Hyun Sun Park)