Who Ordered Trotsky’s Assassination?
Jaime Ramón Mercader Del Río (7 February 1913 – 18 October 1978), More Commonly Known as Ramón Mercader, Was a Spanish Communist and Nkvd Agent Who...
Jaime Ramón Mercader del Río (7 February 1913 – 18 October 1978), more commonly known as Ramón Mercader, was a Spanish communist and NKVD agent who assassinated Russian Bolshevik revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in August 1940 with an ice axe. He served 19 years and 8 months in Mexican prisons for the murder.
Who killed Trotsky's sons?
Sergei L. Sedov (1907/1908 – 1937) was a Soviet engineer and scientist killed in the Great Purge for being the son of Leon Trotsky.
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Was Trotsky assassinated by Stalin?
In 1938, Trotsky and his supporters founded the Fourth International in opposition to Stalin's Comintern. After surviving multiple attempts on his life, Trotsky was assassinated in August 1940 in Mexico City by Ramón Mercader, a Soviet NKVD agent.
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