Moscow, 1927. Stalin receives disturbing reports of secret meetings of the opposition in apartments, clubs, abandoned warehouses. Going for 100-200 people. Trotsky's radical supporters are pushing him to take decisive steps and organize a parallel Communist party. But he does not want this and to the last believes that when the leaders will bite each other, he will be invited to the "throne".

In the 27th supporters of Trotsky tried to organize a rebellion not far from the walls of the Kremlin. Stalin called it a turning point: the Trotskyist organization showed that completely breaks with the party and the Soviet regime. Now Stalin's hands are untied, he is ready to deal with his opponent. But first we need to send Trotsky away from the capital, from the controls. It took a whole special operation.

On January 20, 1929 Stalin, who had received great power, but had not yet become a dictator, though with difficulty, but through the Politburo he made a decision to expel Trotsky and Natalia Sedova from the Soviet Union to Turkey.