Trotsky was in Sukhum recuperating and receiving treatment for an illness. He had been on a train to Sukhum and was in the railway station at Tiflis when he received a telegram from Stalin that Lenin had died. Trotsky telephoned Moscow and was told the funeral would be on the coming Saturday, that he could not make it back in time and that he should remain there taking his treatments. They had lied to Trotsky about the date. The funeral was actually held on Sunday, one day later. Trotsky could easily have made it back to Moscow by then. Stalin deliberately misled Trotsky as to the date of the funeral to make Trotsky look bad in the eyes of the party members.
Leon Trotsky was a good leader of the revolution.
Leon Trotsky was murdered in 1940.
Trotsky was murdered in Mexico.
Trotsky was killed by a Russian agent named Ramon Mercader.
Leon Trotsky was born in a town called Yanivka or Yanovka. It was part of the Russian Empire at that time but is now part of Ukraine.
Leon Trotsky was a good leader of the revolution.
Leon Trotsky was murdered in 1940.
Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky.
Leon Trotsky died on August 21, 1940 at the age of 60.
Trotsky was murdered in Mexico.
After spending imprisonment in Siberia, Leon Trotsky was allowed to live, by Stalin. Trotsky began his exile in Turkey in Alam Ata.
Leon Trotsky built the Red Army into an efficient military organization.
After Vladimir Lenin died, Stalin's rivals for power were Leon Trotsky, Grigori Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev and Nikolai Bukharin.
Leon Trotsky was one of the Communist leaders of the Russian Revolution in 1917. He died in 1924.
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Bolshevik revolutionary leader was Leon Trotsky
Sounds like a joke. How did Leon Trotsky. He alternately trotted and skied. It's not easy, travelling in the snows of Siberia.