León Trotsky house (Colonia Del Carmen, México DF)

"Banned from the Soviet Union by Stalin's bureaucracy in February 1929, Trotsky, along with his wife, Natalia Sedova, lived until December 1936 in three different countries: Turkey, France and Norway. During his exile, the revolutionary stood up for the Bolshevik principles and fought ideologically and politically against Stalinism. Besides, he dedicated himself to organize his Russian and foreign followers to support an International Opposition."

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"In the Soviet Union, Stalin intended to eliminate every vestige of inside opposition to his regime and annihilate the revolutionary vanguard of the proletariat. Looking forward to accomplish his purposes, in August 1936, he ordered the opening of the Moscow Trials, a legal farce that sent the most distinguished personalities among the old leaders of the Bolshevik Party to court. They were syndicated of serving foreign powers and conspiring against the USSR. The name Trotsky was constantly mentioned in all the confessions of the accused people, presenting him as the organizer of the terrorist conspiracy, and allied of the German secret police and the Japanese empire."

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"Mexicans grouped in the International Communist League who identified themselves with his ideas, were informed that Trotsky's life was in danger, so they agreed to look for a refuge for the revolutionary leader in Mexican land. In November 1936, the artist Diego Rivera and professor Octavio Fernandez personally interceded before the Mexican President Lázaro Cárdenas to grant him political asylum. Soon after, in early December, General Cárdenas ordered that the Russian leader be allowed to come to Mexico as a political refugee."

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"To achieve Stalin's criminal purpose, the NKVD (the Soviet government's department in charge of State security) used another method. The executing branch of Trotsky's murder would be the Catalan Ramón Mercader, along with his mother, the communist Caridad Del Río, who Stalin's police had recruited in Spain during the Civil War. He was assigned the task of participating in the international fight against Trotskyism. Identified as Jacques Mornard - a Belgien who afterwards used a fake passport registered under the name of the Canadian Frank Jacson - Mercader skillfully committed himself to the mission he was entrusted."

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"His funeral gathered thousands of people. It is estimated that some 300,000 walked in front of the coffin".

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"Mercader was sent to prison for twenty years in Mexico. During that time, he neither revealed his true identity nor his connection to NKVD"

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"On August 20th, 1940, Mercader, located behind Trotsky, took out from his raincoat an ice axe with a shortened handle and attacked him from the back discharging the weapon over his head."

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"The murderer's weapon had penetrated the skull seven centimeters in the right parietal side, and had wounded abundant brain tissue. Trotsky resisted the surgery with great strength. After fighting against death during more than 24 hours, Trotsky's life faded away on August 21st, 1940 at 7.25 p.m."

Original text by Gabriel García Higueras. Translated by: Prof. José Barúa (Lima), June 2007

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[franzfaramir]

Long live Trotsky, the spirit of October!

[fatty099]

Trotsky was Lenin's right hand man, personally responsible for the edicts handed down to

the secret police (chekists) and the killing of over 4 million men, women and children. Long

before Stalin came on the scene, Trotsky supported the killing of all political opponents of

the regime - including campaigners for a western democratic system, free trade unions and

the release of worker-revolutionary prisoners from the Gulags (Israel Getzler. Kronstadt

1917-1921: The Fate of a Soviet Democracy)

[fatty099]

Trotsky was a mass murderer! Trotsky was Lenin's right hand man, personally responsible for the edicts handed down to the secret police (chekists) and the killing of over 4 million men, women and children. Hope he rots in hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[rlibos]

LONG LIVE THE PEOPLE'S REVOLUTIONARY VANGUARD.........

[SuperNorthAmerica]

This dude was banging frida kahlo right? Diego Rivera helped trotsky and in return, he bangs his wife? not kool.

[elmarciano]

I must have to go to that place!