Who ordered the assassination of Leon Trotsky?

Jaime Ramón Mercader del Río (7 February 1913 – 18 October 1978), more commonly known as Ramón Mercader, was a Spanish communist and NKVD agent who assassinated Russian Bolshevik revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in August 1940 with an ice axe.

How might Stalin and Napoleon have been similar?

Napoleon relates to Joseph Stalin because they both are not good speakers, not as educated as Snowball. They also shared some of the same negative characteristics such as cruelty, selfishness, deviousness, and corruption. Both had an ambition for power and killed their opponents.

What is Trotskyism and why is it bad?

Thanks to Stalin, “Trotskyism” soon became a term of opprobrium for elitism, factionalism, and a lack of connectedness to the masses of workers and peasants. During the mid-1920s, Trotsky responded to these developments by calling for a restoration of workers’ democracy within the Communist Party.

Who was Leon Trotsky’s enemy?

Although history rightly remembers Joseph Stalin as Trotsky’s chief rival and later mortal enemy, in the early 1920s Stalin passed unnoticed by many observers. He had been a “barely perceptible shadow,” as Trotsky put it.

What happened to Joseph Stalin’s son Ivan the Terrible?

Settling with his family in a suburb of Mexico City, he was found guilty of treason in absentia during Stalin’s purges of his political foes. He survived a machine-gun attack on his home but on August 20, 1940, fell prey to a Spanish Communist, Ramon Mercader, who fatally wounded him with an ice-ax. He died from his wounds the next day.

How deep was Trotsky’s wound?

The wound inflicted was three inches deep. Reeling, the old revolutionary found the strength to fight back against the assassin. Trotsky prevented Mercader from inflicting another, fatal blow and battled for his life until his bodyguards arrived.