Leon Trotsky was in hiding for many years. In the end, as it turned out, he was betrayed by his own student. Communist, Trotskyist postulates that actually differed little from Stalin's claims survived—mainly in Western universities and intellectual circles. And they still work very well.
Career in the party
Leon Trotsky (born Lejba Dawidowcz Bronsztejn) was born on November 7, 1879 into a Jewish, atheist family. He joined the labor movement around 1896 and soon became an important figure in the future Bolshevik Party. He founded the Workers' Union of South Russia based on Marxist ideas. He was sent to Siberia twice for his work. He was helped to escape from there by one of Lenin's agents, who saw Trotsky (an aspiring activist and journalist) as a promising Marxist.
During the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, Leon Trotsky was one of the people who planned the coup and formed the Red Army. Leon Trotsky seemed to be the natural heir of Lenin, but after his death (1922) he lost the battle with Stalin. Leon Trotsky believed in a permanent proletarian revolution that would encompass the entire earth. Stalin did not think that starting a revolution was a good idea (of course there were such plans in Moscow, but they were thwarted by Poland's victory in the Polish-Bolshevik War).
Conflict with Stalin
Stalin felt that Leon Trotsky might soon pose a big problem – his party was well respected among the activists and was still going strong. So Stalin expelled Trotsky from the Politburo and the Communist Party, then exiled him to present-day Kazakhstan. Shortly after, Trotsky was completely expelled from the party (1929). He became a fierce critic of the communist system prevailing in the Soviet Union and Stalin's number one enemy.
Trotsky had to flee the country – first he went to Turkey, and then to France and Norway, from where he fled to Mexico in 1936, where he lived until his death. His frequent changes of residence were intended to confuse Soviet agents, but they were found anyway. After a show trial in absentia in the Soviet Union, he was sentenced to death.
In Mexico, Trotsky settled in the leafy Coyoacán district of Mexico City, where he sought new supporters. His home became a meeting place for communists from all over America. He then began an affair with artist (and brutal communist) Frida Kahlo.
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Leon Trotsky anticipated the inevitable as he fed his rabbits on the afternoon of August 20, 1940. Every day he realized that no matter how high the walls around his villa were or how far he ran, the Soviet intelligence services would find him. In 1940, he was living in Mexico City and was probably contemplating an assassination attempt on him when Soviet agents opened his bedroom door with machine gun fire.
At dawn on May 24, 1940, a group of 20 bandits broke into Trotsky's walled villa to execute him. They shot at the house, but missed the target. They were forced to retreat by Trotsky's security, which consisted mainly of young communists recruited by Trotsky. However, the Soviet services knew perfectly well where to look and were not going to stop at this one attempt to kill him.
On August 20, 1940, Frank Jackson arrived at Trotsky's villa – he had already visited Trotsky and was known to the guards. He said he had an article for Trotsky to review. When he entered, Trotsky found him sitting at his desk, working on a biography of Stalin. When he saw it, he took out an ice ax from under his jacket and attacked Trotsky, hitting him in the head with an ice ax (another version of events says that Trotsky himself let it in, and then Jackson attacked).
Trotsky did not die immediately. The victim started screaming, which alerted the security guards, who rushed into the office and attacked Jackson. A knife and a gun were found on him. Trotsky, covered in blood, asked not to be killed. He wanted to tell Jackson who had ordered his murder.
Trotsky was taken to the hospital. After the operation, his health improved, but after a few hours he fell into a coma. He died on August 21, 1940.
It turned out that Frank Jackson's real name was Ramon Mercader. He was a Spanish communist and an agent of Stalin. He managed to get into Trotsky's circle thanks to his contact with one of the women he had met in Paris. He was a Communist-Trotskyist and belonged to Trotsky's student circle. Mercader seemed to be in love with her, they moved to Mexico City together and visited Trotsky regularly.
Mexican authorities sentenced Mercader to 20 years in prison. A year after his release, in 1961, Mercader traveled to Moscow and received the Order of the Hero of the Soviet Union. Before his death, the killer traveled between Cuba and the USSR, where he had houses. Leon Trotsky was never “rehabilitated” in the Soviet Union.
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