Trotsky was murdered in Mexico.
Leon Trotsky was murdered in 1940.
Trotsky was murdered on August 21, 1940 in Mexico City, Mexico.
Leon Trotsky was murdered in Mexico by a Russian agent sent by Joseph Stalin in 1940.
He was killed in his home (in Coyoacan, Mexico city) in 1940. His death was caused by an icepick being smashed into his skull.
Leon Trotsky?
After he was exiled, Leon Trotsky never returned to power. He was murdered while in Mexico.
Leon Trotsky was murdered on orders from Stalin in 1940.
In the 1920's, Leon Trotsky opposed the bureaucracy and policies of Josef Stalin. As a result, he was removed from power in 192,7 and deported from the Soviet Union in 1929. He found asylum in Mexico and continued his opposition to the Stalinist government. He and most of his family were killed on Stalin's orders.
Leon Trotsky became a political enemy of Josef Stalin. Stalin's fear of any descent from his policies were tantamount to treason. Stalin believed that if one of the original Bolsheviks, such as a Trotsky, could gather strength, there could be a revolution against Stalin's regime. Therefore Stalin put a price on Trosky's head. Trotsky was murdered in Mexico.
After Lenin's death, Stalin managed to oust Trotsky from membership in the Communist Party, then from the Soviet Union itself. Trotsky was forced into exile first to Turkey, then France, then Norway and finally to Mexico. In 1940, Stalin had a Russian agent named Ramon Mercader murder Trotsky with an ice axe.
Trotsky took no part in World War II as he was murdered in Mexico City, Mexico in 1940.