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Assassination of Leon Trotsky

Name: Assassination of Leon Trotsky – Spain factsheet records
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Spain · Government / Communist Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1940

Jaime Ramon Mercader del Rio Hernandez20 August 1940

Mexico City · Government / Communist Party Government

Assassinates Leon Trotsky with an ice-pick

Names involved

Jaime Ramon Mercader del Rio Hernandez

Provenance

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