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Leon Trotsky was murdered in 1940.
Leon Trotsky, the Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician, was fatally stabbed with an ice axe by Ramón Mercader, a Spanish communist, in 1940. The assassination took place in Mexico City, where Trotsky was living in exile at the time.
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Trotsky created his own fraction in the CPSU(B) (wich was not allowed) and broke with everything the party stood for so he was gotten rid of.
Trotsky was killed by a Russian agent named Ramon Mercader.