21h 24min, apr 10, 1917 y - trotsky
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Exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded by an assassin that used an ice pick at his compound outside Mexico City. The killer ,Ramón Mercader, was a Spanish communist and probable agent of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. Trotsky died from his wounds the next day. He died august 20, 1940.
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21h 24min, apr 10, 1917 y
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