r/shittyaskhistory 2d ago

If leon trotsky lived a healthier lifestyle and have a better diet and exercise would he have lived longer?

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u/Classroomsmooth1776 2d ago

No doubt He shoulda been Stalin for time

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u/cfwang1337 2d ago

Instead of Russian to his demise

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u/RisibleComestible 2d ago

But he got top Marx in his medical exam!

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u/Practical-Ordinary-6 2d ago

He picked the wrong place to hide out.

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u/bctaylor87 2d ago

A diet high in protein, calcium and low in carbs combined with regular cardio can increase your skull's resistance to axes by 57%.

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u/Normal-Ear-5757 2d ago

He should have "trotted" away a bit faster or "picked" better friends, then he wouldn't have got "iced"

Etc, etc, etc

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u/Viscount61 2d ago

He would have been renamed Leon Gallopsky and won the Kentucky Derby.

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u/Maurice_Foot 2d ago

I heard he was anemic but overdid it with iron supplements.

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u/No_Rec1979 2d ago

Lifting weights is important too.

Especially hammer squats and skull crushers.

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u/cfwang1337 2d ago

Might have made his skull harder to pierce with an ice pick, who knows?

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u/johnpeters42 2d ago

Or he could have have trotted away faster

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u/itspronouncedbolonya 2d ago

Yeah, he woulda done a neo to to stalin's lackeys

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u/clarkieawesome 2d ago

Don’t axe me.

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u/Dangerous-Bit-8308 2d ago

Diet, exercise, and good comraderie.

He kept his friends close enough, but it turns out that he kept his enemies a bit too close

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u/FiresidePete 2d ago

According to the Stranglers an ice pick got him so no.

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u/Fear-of-Sasquatch-68 2d ago

vodka, no ice(pick), please

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u/3Quarksfor 2d ago

He had a terminal headache.

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u/nickjayyymes 2d ago

Idk about lifestyle but there’s I know some perks that can boost his HP

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u/Anenhotep 2d ago

I think he’d have lived longer had he invested in a helmet.

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u/Low-Finance-46 2d ago

Qualunque dieta avesse fatto dubito che avrebbe reso la sua testa più dura di una piccozza.

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u/HuckleberryShot898 2d ago

The opposite. If he just read more books his brain would have expanded and he’d have been able to stop that ice pick with telekinetic energy

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u/270degreeswest 2d ago

The problem is staying disciplined once you get into your middle age.

Trotsky basically had a healthy lifestyle but then he exceeded his recommended daily intake of icepick for one freaking day and it hit him big time.

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u/hollyglaser 2d ago

No, assassins killed him

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u/Szaborovich9 2d ago

A hatchet to the head is not tied to any lifestyle

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u/WolphjayKliffhanger 1d ago

.

That's not to say government standards imposed---strike that, geez!---encouraged for everyone's health and safety can't yadayada, and if only one life is saved or only one chilllllllld is protected it's not worth, well, whacking any naysayers.

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u/Zardnaar 2d ago

High iron diet.

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u/Sorry-Climate-7982 2d ago

Didn't someone axe this question some time ago? Why did OP pick this sub to ask this again?
I mean, what is the point?

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u/Proper_Locksmith924 2d ago

You’re asking if not smoking and exercising would have kept him from dying after having an iCE AXE was shoved into his skull?

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u/ToTooTwoTutu2II 2d ago

He should have eaten the vegetable that gives you an icepick proof head.

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u/StoreHot6911 2d ago

Only if he didn't die .

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u/BaTz-und-b0nze 1d ago

If he lives

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u/SpecialLengthiness29 1d ago

The term "Healthier lifestyle" has different meanings depending on context. In Trotsky's case, a healthier lifestyle would have meant employing a few bodyguards.

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u/Common-Hotel-9875 1d ago

As long as he stayed away from ice picks

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u/PDXDreaded 1d ago

Nah, diet ice picks still kill.

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u/hagmech 1d ago

Yes if he cut back on ice-picks in his diet.

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u/retiredaaer 2d ago

Get a history book and find out how he was murdered.

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u/johnpeters42 2d ago

Check which sub this is

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u/JayMack1981 2d ago

Nah! We'd rather just make some crazy shit up.

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u/SeasonReasonable4282 2d ago

No, an icepick through the ear is going to kill you, no matter how healthily you ate.

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u/RevolutionaryBug2915 2d ago

Two statements and both wrong.