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The assassination of Leon Trotsky

19/08/2015 GMT

The Assassination of Leon Trotsky

BBC World Service - Witness History, The Assassination of Leon Trotsky

Esteban Volkov recalls the murder of his grandfather, Leon Trotsky, in Mexico in Aug 1940

Esteban Volkov, the grandson of the exiled Russian revolutionary, Leon Trotsky, recalls his grandfather's murder in Mexico City in August 1940.

In August 1940 the exiled Russian revolutionary, Leon Trotsky, was killed in Mexico City, stabbed in the head with an ice-pick.

Trotsky's grandson, Esteban Volkov, then aged 14, was living with his grandfather. He recalls how he arrived home from school that fateful day.

(Photo: Esteban Volkov with his grandparents, Leon Trotsky and Natalia Sedova. Credit: Trotsky Museum, Mexico City)

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