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 Leon Trotsky (1879)Trotsky was a Marxist intellectual whose ideas form the basis of Trotskyism, a Communist ideology based on the theory of worldwide revolution. He was a crucial figure in the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia and organized the Red Army in the civil war that followed. After a power struggle with Joseph Stalin in the 1920s, Trotsky was exiled from the USSR. In 1940, he was assassinated in Mexico by an alleged Soviet agent with ties to Stalin. From whom did he borrow the name "Trotsky"? More...
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It seems odd that Trotsky wound up in Mexico after his exile.
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Trotsky was the name of the head jailer of the Odessa prison in which he had earlier been held. He used it to forge a passport to escape from his exile in Siberia, in 1902.
Trotsky afterwards settled in Mexico with the support of nationalist president Lázaro Cárdenas.
"Der Mensch der Erkenntnis muss nicht nur seine Feinde lieben, er muss auch seine Freunde hassen können." Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
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