Today in 1929, Leon Trotsky was expelled from the USSR. He lived in Turkey, France, Norway and finally in Mexico where he was killed in 1940 by Ramón Mercader, a Spanish born Soviet agent, in 1940.
Leon Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein in 1879 as the son of a Jewish farmer and grew up speaking Russian and Ukranian. He suffered revolutionary exile form 1896 to 1902. He rose to become the number 2 leader of the Soviet Union under Lenin after the 1917 Revolution but was expelled from the USSR by Stalin and eventually assassinated.
Leon Trotsky
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