August 1940
LEON TROTSKY
Leon Trotsky.
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.
Seems like Leon Trotsky to me. He opposed Stalin for which he was exiled and eventually assassinated in Mexico by a Soviet agent.
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.
Leon Trotsky was murdered on orders from Stalin in 1940.
In his home (the "little fortress") in Coyoacan (in Mexico City) in August of 1940.
Leon Trotsky was murdered in 1940.
Leon Trotsky was accused of various crimes by the Soviet government, including plotting against the state, counter-revolutionary activities, and attempting to undermine the leadership of Joseph Stalin. He was ultimately exiled and later assassinated in Mexico in 1940.
Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky.
The first one that comes to mind is Leon Trotsky, though there might have been others as well.
Joseph Stalin's rival for control of the Soviet Union was Leon Trotsky. Vladimir Lenin died in 1924 and over the next 5 years Stalin would kill or otherwise remove all of his political opponents and rivals and exile Trotsky. He eventually had Trotsky assassinated in Mexico City in 1940.