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On this day in 1940, Leon Trotsky died in Mexico City, a day after being attacked with an ice pick by a local Soviet agent action on orders from Moscow. Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in a small village in Ukraine in 1879, Trotsky was educated in Odessa and was converted at a young age first to socialism and then to Marxism. Initially identified with the Mensheviks, when the revolution erupted in 1917...
