How sad Trotsky's last words?
Lev Davidowich Bronstein.
(He assumed the name Leon Trotsky in 1902)
The exiled Bolshevik leader
Who was settled in Mexico in 1936.
On 20, August 1940 an assasin called Franck Johnson
A French Jew, acting on Stalin's orders
Stabbed Trotsky with an Ice Pick,
Fatally wounded in him
And he died the following day in Coyoacan.
His skull fractured with pickaxe.
How sad Trotsky's last words;
"I think Stalin has finished the job he started."
*In 1926 they expelled him from the Politiburo; And in 1928 Stalin exiled him to Central Asia and 1929 expelled him from the USSR.
The play depicts the death of Leon Trotsky in varying ways.End of the play; Ramon Mercader,the Spanish Assasin who smashed,not buried,the axe into Trotsky's skull.
*To Nikolai Gogol for his short historical novel Taras Bulba.
My younger days hero Tony Curtis who's Andrei as Yule Bryner's(Taras Bulba) son in the movie passed away today at Las Vegas, deepest sympathy for him!
Leon Trotsky was the human face of revolution... revolution is a journey from one slaughterhouse to another my friend! Leon Trotsky proves that!
AH, you bring us all these gems of stories and anecdoets..
Great story told much of info...and I agree with robyn as well ,indeed era of terror. Thanks
It was an era of terror and paranoia... how tragic that fine minds lie fell from manic axes...
Thank you for the treasure of all you share... Dorothy A Poet Who Loves to Sing