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In consolidating power 
and becoming this dictator,

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pretty much everyone in the party
ended up getting pulled into this

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to make room for Stalin to take over.

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So, in 1927, Bukharin
testified against Trotsky,

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making accusations 
of fracturing and factions.

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Bukharin described the party line
as the democratic outcome -

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the result of a vote -

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and he said that then has to be enforced
in order to maintain unity.

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And so as Bukharin said to Trotsky,

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"Why would the majority choose
the party line otherwise

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if it wasn't the right line,
the line that we should back?"

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Trotsky lost his responsibilities, 
including that of War Minister,

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due to his advocacy of Trotskyism,

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which is obviously a belief 
in his own ideas.

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He relinquished control without a fight,

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seeing that he agreed, in general,

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that everyone in the party
had to follow the party line

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in order to lead the people,

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that this was the right and utopian thing
as they moved toward socialism.

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So he gave up without a fight,
and he was later exiled and then killed.

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A decade later,

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it was Bukharin who was on trial in 1938
and finally executed.

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Transcriber: Michel Smits
Reviewer: Maurício Kakuei Tanaka