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I've been reading Trotsky's autobiography and came here looking for more detail about the train. I see there are no sources and some of the info here conflicts with what Trotsky wrote. Of course he's not a completely objective source but at least he is a source and there are no inline citations at all so I'm going to delete anything that wasn't confirmed by Trotsky (I'll leave things I delete here on the talk page) and add his autobiography to reference those facts that are consistent with it. --MadScientistX11 (talk) 20:09, 30 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Here is the original article. The main things I deleted were the claims about an air squadron being part of the train and that Stalin visited the train, neither of those are mentioned in Trotsky's autobiography. Original Article: '''Trotsky's train''' was the personal armoured train of [[Leon Trotsky]], the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] People's Commissar of Defense, which he had built in August 1918. It included a telegraph station, a library, a printing house, a radio station, an automobile garage and a small air squadron. The staff on the train included many soviet military and civilian procurement specialists. A special newspaper – "V Puti" ({{lang-ru|В пути}}, ''On the Road''), which served as agitation for the [[Red Army]] – was published in it. During the [[Russian Civil War]], the train was visited by prominent [[Bolsheviks|Bolshevik leaders]], including [[Joseph Stalin]]. "Train of Victory" contributed to the formation of the Red Army and the subsequent consolidation of the power of the Bolsheviks in [[Soviet Russia]]. --MadScientistX11 (talk) 20:33, 30 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@MadScientistX11: Thank you for your interest in the topic: the best sourse that I know is "Tarkhova N. S. Trotsky's Train. Unknown Page in the History of the Civil War // The Trotsky Reappraisal / ed. by T. Brotherstone and P. Dukes. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1992. ISBN 9780748603176" (it is avilable online). Best regards --Balabinrm (talk) 00:04, 21 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

P.S.: Or RU-wiki, of course ) --Balabinrm (talk) 00:05, 21 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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The image captioned "Leon Trotsky delivering a speech to the 51st Rifle Division atop the train in Crimea, 1921" appears to be an armored car, not a train. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Noworld (talk • contribs) 15:14, 4 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]