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Newspaper Article
Kremlin Killed Trotsky, USSR Told
1989
Overview
[Leon Trotsky], who with Vladimir Lenin forged the success of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution, was assassinated in 1940 in an operation ordered from Moscow and run by an NKVD secret police agent, historian N. Vasetsky said in an article in the widely read Literary Gazette weekly. Vasetsky, apparently basing his account on some Soviet archive material, also identified the NKVD officer charged with organizing the killing - in which Trotsky was slashed in the head with an alpenstock at his Mexico City home - as Col. Leonid Eitingon. He said Caridad Mercader and Eitingon, who had become lovers, were waiting with a get-away car near Trotsky's villa in the Mexico City suburb of Coyoacan as the murder was under way but [Ramon Mercader] was caught by Trotsky aides.
Publisher
Newsday LLC
