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18 de oct. de 2023 · León Trotsky murió a los sesenta años, repudiado por su propio partido, y muy lejos del país que había ayudado a transformar. Tras una vida al servicio de la revolución que acabó con la Rusia zarista, se vio exiliado de su propia tierra y en peligro constante.
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Read about the tale of deceit, betrayal and a pickaxe-wielding secret agent behind Leon Trotsky’s assassination.
Leon Trotsky awaited the inevitable as he fed his rabbits on the afternoon of August 20, 1940. Marked for death by Joseph Stalin, the 60-year-old intellectual architect of the Russian Revolution knew that neither the armed guards patrolling the high walls of his Mexico City compound nor even the thousands of miles of land and sea that stretched between him and Moscow could completely protect him from the Soviet dictator’s deadly reach. Any thoughts of finding a sanctuary in exile had been destroyed like his bullet-riddled bedroom door when Stalinist agents stormed his villa less than three months earlier in an unsuccessful assassination attempt.
Trotsky, though, had been used to dangerous enemies since his early days as a student revolutionary in Russia. The czarist government had twice exiled him to Siberia for his Marxist beliefs. In between, the man born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein had escaped to London on a forged British passport, under the name Leon Trotsky, and met fellow revolutionary Vladimir Lenin. During the Russian Revolution of 1917, he plotted a coup of the provisional government with Lenin and formed the Red Army, which defeated the anti-Bolshevik White Army in the ensuing civil war.
Trotsky appeared to be Lenin’s natural successor, but he lost a power struggle to Stalin following the Soviet leader’s death in 1924. Trotsky became increasingly critical of Stalin’s totalitarian tactics, and his belief in a permanent global proletarian revolution ran counter to his rival’s thought that it was possible to have communism survive in the Soviet Union alone. Sensing a threat to his power, the Soviet dictator expelled Trotsky from the Politburo and the Communist Party before exiling him to present-day Kazakhstan and banishing him from the country altogether in 1929. After a four-year stay in Turkey and brief stops in France and Norway, Trotsky received asylum in Mexico in 1936.
The exiled dissident settled in Mexico City’s leafy Coyoacan neighborhood and held court with American and Mexican supporters—as well as carried on an affair with painter Frida Kahlo—while organizing the Fourth International to fight against both capitalism and Stalinism. Trotsky may have been out of Stalin’s sight, but he was never out of his mind. As the outspoken exile continued to castigate his foe, Trotsky was found guilty of treason by a show court and condemned to death.
In the early morning hours of May 24, 1940, a group of 20 gunmen stormed Trotsky’s walled compound to carry out the sentence. They sprayed the house with bullets but missed their target before they were forced to retreat. The political pariah’s bodyguards, mostly young American Trotskyites, expected the next attack would come from a bomb, so they heightened the compound’s exterior walls, bricked over windows and added watchtowers with money provided by wealthy American benefactors. “Thanks to the efforts of the North American friends, our peaceful suburban house is now being transformed, week by week, into a fortress—and at the same time into a prison,” Trotsky wrote to one of his backers.
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Learn how Leon Trotsky, the exiled rival of Stalin, was murdered by a pickaxe-wielding agent in Mexico City in 1940. Discover the tale of deceit, betrayal and a secret plot behind the assassination of the Russian Revolution leader.
Leon Trotsky was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist who played a key role in the October Revolution and the Soviet Union. He was assassinated by a Stalinist agent in Mexico in 1940.
Learn how the exiled communist leader was killed by Ramón Mercader, a Spanish communist and suspected agent of Stalin, in Mexico on August 20, 1940. Find out the background and the aftermath of this political murder.
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Leon Trotsky, a prominent Bolshevik leader and rival of Stalin, was assassinated by Spanish communist Ramón Mercader in 1940. Mercader struck Trotsky with an ice pick at his house in Mexico, where he had been exiled.
Murió asesinado en México por Ramón Mercader, un agente español de la NKVD soviética, por orden de Stalin. 10 . Juventud rural. León Trotski en una fotografía tomada en 1888 a sus ocho años de edad.
21 de ago. de 2015 · León Trotsky murió el 21 de agosto de 1940, en esta ciudad, un día después de ser atacado con un piolet (instrumento usado en el alpinismo), por el español Ramón Mercader, quien llegó hasta el revolucionario ruso, exiliado en México, haciéndose pasar como periodista belga.
