They axed Leon in DF.................but it wasn't 1984 yet...........

Trotsky assassinated in Mexico - Aug 20, 1940 - HISTORY ...

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Exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded by an ice-ax-wielding assassin at his compound outside Mexico City. The killer–Ramón  ...

Trotsky's grandson recalls ice pick killing - BBC News

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Aug 28, 2012 - But he was hunted down in Mexico City by Stalinist assassins, as his.... Following Trotsky's death, Volkov continued living in Mexico with his  ...

Death of Trotsky | 1940-1949 | Guardian Century

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Leon Trotsky, the exiled Bolshevik leader, died early this morning from injuries received when he was attacked in his home in a suburb of Mexico City some thirty  ...