The Washington Post, January 23rd, 2007
"And who's going to start a revolution in Russia? Surely not Herr Bronstein sipping cafe au lait over at the Cafe Central!" With those possibly apocryphal words, the Austrian foreign minister of the time is alleged to have scoffed at the news of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia -- not realizing that Herr Bronstein, better known as Leon Trotsky, was about to become considerably more famous than he. It's one of those stories that have passed into tourist guidebook folklore (along with the Viennese waiter who supposedly remarked, "I knew Lev Bronstein would go far, but never thought he'd leave ...
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