The Death of Trotsky The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin s Greatest Enemy Roger Willems a story by Kafka and

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The Death of Trotsky The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin s Greatest Enemy Roger Willems a story by Kafka andIn August 1940, a man walked into Leon Trotsky's study in Mexico City and drove an ice pick into his skull. The killer? Ramon Mercader an aristocratic Spaniard turned Soviet assassin. The mastermind? Joseph Stalin. But this was no simple hit. It was the climax of a decade long global hunt: a story of seduction and betrayal, of fake identities and secret loyalties, of idealists and fanatics, lovers and spies. While Trotsky raged in exile still clinging