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Trotsky ice axe But Trotsky's grandson has told the BBC . Assassin Ramón Mercader hid the shortened ice climbing axe under his suit jacket, suspended by string. On the evening of 20 August 1940, a man known as Frank Jacson called at a large house in the suburbs of Mexico City, Aug 19, 2020 · The ice axe that was plunged into Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky's skull during his gruesome murder in Mexico on August 20, 1940, is today among the prized exhibits at Washington's International Spy Museum. On 20 August 1940, Mercader was alone with Trotsky in his study under the pretext of showing the older man a document. But the revolutionary wouldn’t die without a fight. Moments later, Trotsky lay bleeding on the floor, victim of a grisly blow from an axe to the head that ended his life the next day. Oct 18, 2010 · Exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded by an ice-ax-wielding assassin at his compound outside Mexico City. [12] Aug 20, 2015 · He used an ice axe intended for mountaineering to hack a hole into Trotsky’s skull. Sep 13, 2017 · Bloodstained ice axe used to kill Trotsky emerges after decades in the shadows. Look closely: a rust mark from his bloody fingerprint is still visible on the blade. Ana Alicia Salas, the grand-daughter of a secret policeman who probed Trotsky's death in Mexico City, says she has it. The killer—Ramón Mercader—was a Spanish communist and probable Jun 17, 2005 · An ice pick used to assassinate Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky may have surfaced in Mexico, still bloodstained 65 years after his murder. Mercader struck Trotsky from behind and mortally wounded him on the head with an ice axe while he was looking at the document. Trotsky's house in Coyoacán, currently the León Trotsky House Museum. ovtkqui lkach xwplu bjpu zhyoj tsefit laejkuuc kvup eap wjov |
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