Jaime Ramon Mercader del Rio Hernandez20 August 1940
Assassinates Leon Trotsky with an ice-pick
Spain · Government / Communist Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Assassinates Leon Trotsky with an ice-pick
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