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Podcast: Witness: Archive 2012
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Assassination of Leon Trotsky
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:09:09
Publish Date: 2012-08-21 04:15:00
Description: The exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico City in August 1940, stabbed in the head with an ice-pick. Trotsky's grandson, Esteban Volkov, then aged 14, lived with his grandfather, and describes arriving home from school that fateful day. He also recalls a previous assassination attempt three months earlier. Photo: Esteban Volkov with his grandparents, Leon Trotsky and Natalia Sedova (courtesy of Trotsky Museum, Mexico City)
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