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"Assassination
The study where Leon Trotsky was assassinated with an ice axe on 20
August 1940
After a failed attempt to have Trotsky murdered in March 1939, Stalin
assigned the overall organization of implementing the task to the NKVD
officer Pavel Sudoplatov, who, in turn, co-opted Nahum Eitingon.
According to Sudoplatov's Special Tasks, the NKVD proceeded to set up
three NKVD agent networks to carry out the murder. According to
Sudoplatov, all three networks were designed to operate entirely
autonomously from the NKVD's hitherto-established spy networks in the
U.S. and Mexico.[154]
On 24 May 1940, Trotsky survived a raid on his villa by armed
assassins led by the NKVD agent Iosif Grigulevich and Mexican painter
David Alfaro Siqueiros.[155] Trotsky's 14-year-old grandson, Vsevolod
Platonovich "Esteban" Volkov (born 7 March 1926), was shot in the
foot, and a young assistant and bodyguard of Trotsky, Robert Sheldon
Harte, was abducted and later murdered. Trotsky's other guards fended
off the attackers.[156] Following the failed assassination attempt,
Trotsky wrote an article titled "Stalin Seeks My Death" on 8 June
1940, in which he stated that another assassination attempt was
certain.[157]
On 20 August 1940, Trotsky was attacked in his study by Spanish-born
NKVD agent Ramón Mercader, who used an ice axe as a weapon.[158][k]
A mountaineering ice axe has a narrow end, called the pick, and a flat
wide end called the adze. The adze of the axe wounded Trotsky,
fracturing his parietal bone and penetrating 7 cm (2.8 in) into his
brain.[159] The blow to his head was bungled and failed to kill
Trotsky instantly. Witnesses stated that Trotsky spat on Mercader and
began struggling fiercely with him, which resulted in Mercader's hand
being broken. Hearing the commotion, Trotsky's bodyguards burst into
the room and nearly beat Mercader to death, but Trotsky stopped them,
laboriously stating that the assassin should be made to answer
questions. [160] Trotsky was then taken to a hospital and operated on,
surviving for more than a day, but dying, at the age of 60, on 21
August 1940 from exsanguination and shock.[161][159] Mercader later
testified at his trial:
I laid my raincoat on the table in such a way as to be able to
remove the ice axe which was in the pocket. I decided not to miss the
wonderful opportunity that presented itself. The moment Trotsky began
reading the article, he gave me my chance; I took out the ice axe from
the raincoat, gripped it in my hand and, with my eyes closed, dealt
him a terrible blow on the head.[160]
According to James P. Cannon, the secretary of the Socialist Workers
Party (USA), Trotsky's last words were "I will not survive this
attack. Stalin has finally accomplished the task he attempted
unsuccessfully before."[162] Mercader was tried and convicted of the
murder and spent the next 20 years in a Mexican prison. Stalin
presented Mercader with an Order of Lenin in absentia,"
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