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Apr 2, 2014 · Communist Leon Trotsky helped ignite the Russian Revolution of 1917, and built the Red Army afterward. He was exiled and later assassinated by Soviet agents.
Oct 18, 2010 · Exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded by an ice-ax-wielding assassin at his compound outside Mexico City. The killer—Ramón Mercader—was a Spanish communist and probable...
Ramón Mercader (Jaime Ramón Mercader del Río, 7 February 1913 – 18 October 1978), [1] was a Spanish Communist and NKVD secret agent who assassinated the revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in August 1940. Mercader was imprisoned for 19 years and 8 months in Mexico for murdering the exiled detractor with an ice axe. [2]
The home was the site of his assassination in 1940. (more) In May 1940, men armed with machine guns attacked his house, but Trotsky survived. Some three months later, however, Ramón Mercader, a Spanish communist who had won the confidence of the Trotsky household, fatally struck him with an ice pick.
Sep 9, 2015 · Months Past. Leon Trotsky assassinated in Mexico. The man born Lev Bronstein was attacked on August 20th, 1940. He died the following day. Richard Cavendish | Published in History Today Volume 65 Issue 9 September 2015. Leon Trotsky, photographed c.1918. Rijksmuseum.
On August 20, 1940, Spanish communist Ramón Mercader fatally struck Trotsky with an ice pick. It is generally believed that Mercader was acting on orders from Trotsky’s rival, Joseph Stalin. How did Leon Trotsky die? After his exile, Leon Trotsky sought asylum in Mexico. He settled into a house in Coyoacán in 1936. In May 1940, men armed w.
When Leon Trotsky was murdered in Mexico on August 20th, 1940, the crime failed to achieve the world-wide impact made by, say, the assassination of President Kennedy, and in the years that have elapsed, relatively few books have been written about it. This is understandable enough.
