Ramon Mercader. He was an agent of the NKVD, the Soviet Internal Affairs Department on August 20, 1940. He was severely injured by an ice axe that hit him and died of trauma a day later died in the hospital after surgery.
Previously, the USSR had attempted to kill him, but with no success until then.
Ramon Mercader, likely an agent of Stalin.
The KGB was not around until after Stalin's death. The story is that Stalin had some an agent of the NKVD - the Peoples Commissariat for Internal Affairs, a public secret police system under Stalin notorious for running the Gulags - named Ramon Mercader, from Barcelona Spain. This man claimed to have been born in Tehran under a diplomat for a father, and was a Belgian journalist named Jacques Mornard who bought a fake passport on the black market. This person was released in prison after 20 years in 1960 and went between Cuba and the USSR (where he was apparently treated like a hero.) He was never able to get back to Spain fortunately, even though he wanted to.
In his home (the "little fortress") in Coyoacan (in Mexico City) in August of 1940.
Joseph Stalin opposed Trotsky in their struggle for power after Vladimir Lenin died in 1924.
Leon Trotsky accused Joseph Stalin of being a tyrant and demanded democracy. Although Lenin wanted Trotsky to assume leadership after his death, Stalin's supporters out-maneuvered Trotsky. Stalin suppressed Lenin's will and manipulated Trotsky out of his post of Commissioner of War as well as out of the Politburo.
Trotsky used his pen to oppose the rule of Czar Nicholas II.
Leon Trotsky built the Red Army into an efficient military organization.
August 1940
Leon Trotsky, the number two man in the Bolshevik Party during the Russian Revolution of October 1917 was assassinated in Mexico City, Mexico in 1940.
Poorly, in fact he was assassinated on Stalin's orders.
Leon Trotsky.
LEON TROTSKY
Stalin had Trotsky expelled from the Communist Party and exiled from the Soviet Union. He then ordered the assassination of Trotsky, who was killed in Mexico in 1940 by a Soviet agent.
Trotsky
In his home (the "little fortress") in Coyoacan (in Mexico City) in August of 1940.
Leon Trotsky was murdered on orders from Stalin in 1940.
Leon Trotsky was the founder of the Red Army. He was the People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs of the RSFSR from 1917 to 1918. He was a Marxist and a revolutionary. Trotsky lived from 1879 to 1940 when he was assassinated.
Seems like Leon Trotsky to me. He opposed Stalin for which he was exiled and eventually assassinated in Mexico by a Soviet agent.
This event represents when trotsky (snowball) for chased by the secret agents of stalin, and trotsky was then assassinated and killed. this was because stalin eventually didnt agree with trotsky's ideas, so he ordered the agents to do so. hope this helped :)