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In August of that year Ramon Mercader, an agent for Stalin, struck Trotsky in the head with an ice pick and he later died in a hospital.

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http://www.marxist.net/trotsky/life/life.htm

https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/leon_trotsky

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-19356256

http://www.answers.com/topic/leon-trotsky

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-19356256

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"There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances."

" Everyone has the right to be stupid on occasion, but Comrade Macdonald abuses the privilege."

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-  Prominent leaders of the Bolshevik Party were tried on false/trumped up charges. These were proved by false confessions and threats against their families. The defendants were sentenced to death and executed immediately.
- Trotsky was the chief defendant, but he wasn't there. He was accused, in summary, of plotting to bring down the Soviet Union.

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- January 1928 beginning of his third exile

- After exiling Trotsky Stalin realized that it would have been better to kill him
-  Many of his friends and family killed during Stalin's regime
-  Wrote History of the Russian Revolution
-  Spent most of his adult life in prison and in exile

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Died: August 20, 1940
Trotsky moved to Mexico with his family after being exiled from the USSR by Stalin. Most of his other family had already been assassinated by Stalin's agents. On May 24, 1940 Stalin's gunmen stormed his villa. Trotsky survived the attack with the help of his personal body guards.

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Birthday: November 7th, 1879
Born: Yanovka, Ukraine
Birth name: Lev Davidovich Bronstein, changed to Leon Trotsky while escaping from prison in Sierra 1902
Occupation: Statesman

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Leon Trotsky was a key person in the creation of the Soviet Union. Trotsky led a revolution with Vladimir Lenin in Russia in 1917. As a commissar in the Soviet government, he helped get rid of opposition to the Bolshevik control. He also was a powerful writer and used his skill to express his ideas.