Anti-Communism: About Those Who Fell Out of Favor with Communist Leadership

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Above is a photo of "... of (Leon) Trotsky (1879-1940) that appeared on the cover of the magazine Prozhektor in January 1924", and which is posted in the Wiki article about Trotsky. According to the same Wiki article, at one time Trotsky was People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the RSFSR. The quote in the first sentence is from the Wiki article.





This is a photo of the murder weapon, the ice axe that was used to kill Trotsky; the image is posted at newcriterion.com. NKVD agent and murderer Ramón Mercader plunged the blunt end of the axe into Trotsky's skull, and he died the next day on August 21, 1940. According to The Guardian article linked to below, "Two sons of the 1917 Russian revolution, Trotsky and Joseph Stalin, were locked in rivalry that – by the nature of the two men – could only end in death."

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The axe was fleetingly displayed at a police press conference, but then disappeared for more than six decades.

Next year (the article was written in 2017), however, the bloodstained relic will go on public display at Washington’s International Spy Museum, which will reopen in a new building to accommodate thousands of other (artifacts) that have emerged from the shadows.
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Full article in The Guardian