he revealed that in 1917 he had declined Lenin’s request to serve as interior minister. “The fact is, comrades, there is one personal aspect of my work, which although playing no role in my personal life and my day-to-day existence, is nonetheless of great political significance,” he stated. “This is my Jewish origin. . . . I firmly turned down his offer on the grounds, as before, that we should not give our enemies the opportunity to say that our country was being ruled by a Jew.”301 More recently, when Lenin proposed that he become his deputy in the government, Trotsky said, he refused on
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