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Trotsky was assassinated

21st August 1940

Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army.

Fell out with Joseph Stalin and became exiled overseas. Was eventually tracked to Mexico, where he was assassinated using an ice-pick.


Trotsky, The Passionate Revolutionary  at Pen and Sword Books Back to Anniversaries