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After [Vladimir] Lenin’s death in 1924, Stalin promoted himself as his political heir and in 1928 had Leon Trotsky exiled because he believed he was a political threat. Just like with Napoleon and Snowball!!
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SOURCE:
www.megaessays.com/essay_search/trotsky_exiled.html |
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In Jan., 1928, Trotsky was exiled to Alma-Ata (now Almaty, Kazakhstan), but he wasn't ordered to leave the USSR until 1929.
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SOURCE:
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0861640.html |
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In 1935, after the French authorities refused to allow Trotsky to stay in the country any longer, no other European country was prepared to grant him exile.
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SOURCE:
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/jan2009/norw-j13.shtml |
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On 20 August, 1940, Trotsky was struck a fatal blow with an ice-pick by Ramon Mercader, an agent sent to Mexico by Stalin's secret police (the GPU) to murder the exiled revolutionary—alongside Lenin, the leader of the October revolution, the founder and leader of the Red Army, and the co-founder of the Third, Communist International.
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SOURCE:
http://www.marxist.net/trotsky/life/life.htm |
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Leon Trotsky was born as Lev Davidovich Bronstein on November 7, 1879 in Yanovka, Ukraine.He was exiled to Siberia, but escaped to Europe in 1902. There, he began using the pseudonym of Trotsky.
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SOURCE:
http://www.freeinfosociety.com/article.php?id=46 |
