What the records say
- When
- 20 Aug 1940
- Kind
- Assassination
- Deaths
- 1
- Coordinates
- 19.35° N, 99.16° W
- Description
- murder of Trotsky, 20 August 1940
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Assassination of Leon Trotsky
1940 murder in Mexico City, Mexico
On 20 August 1940, Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and political theorist Leon Trotsky was fatally attacked by NKVD agent Ramón Mercader with an ice axe at his residence in Mexico City. Trotsky died from his injuries at a nearby hospital the next day.
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