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Aug 21, 2015 · The Trotsky Assassination. Read about the tale of deceit, betrayal and a pickaxe-wielding secret agent behind Leon Trotsky’s assassination. By: Christopher Klein. Updated: September 12,...
The Assassination of Trotsky is a 1972 British historical drama film, directed by Joseph Losey with a screenplay by Nicholas Mosley. It stars Richard Burton as Leon Trotsky, as well as Romy Schneider and Alain Delon.
- 20 April 1972
The exiled communist theorist and revolutionary Leon Trotsky was attacked by a Soviet agent in Coyoacán, Mexico, on August 20, 1940, and died of his injuries the following day. Trotsky, one of the chief architects of the Russian Revolution, had at one time been regarded as the most likely successor to Lenin as the leader of the U.S.S.R.
- Noah Tesch
In the aftermath of Trotsky's assassination, an estimated 300,000 people had passed by his funeral casket in Mexico City over several days by 27 August 1940. Personality and characteristics Portrait of Leon Trotsky as Commander of the Red Army, 1920
- Vladimir Lenin
- Leon Trotsky House Museum
Rent The Assassination of Trotsky on Prime Video, or buy it on Prime Video. A Stalinist assassin (Alain Delon) tracks exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky (Richard Burton) to Mexico in 1940.
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- Richard Burton
Mar 30, 1972 · With Richard Burton, Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Valentina Cortese. After having been forced to leave the Soviet Union 1929 Trotsky has ended up in Mexico 1940. He is still busy with politics, promoting socialism to the world. Stalin has sent out an assassin, Frank Jackson.
One of the closest associates of Lenin and the leader of the October Revolution was killed in Mexico by Soviet agent Ramon Mercader. Why was the “leader of nations” so afraid of his former ally?...
