Friday, June 17, 2005

Mexico: Trotsky murder weapon reappears?

From UPI (via The Washington Times):

The murder weapon that was buried in the forehead of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky may have emerged after missing for 65 years. A relative of the secret policeman who investigated Trotsky's death says she has the ice-pick -- and it's still stained with Trotsky's blood, Infobae newspaper reported.

Trotsky was killed in August 1940 by a Spanish Soviet agent, Ramon Mercader, while living in exile in Mexico City.

The Russian revolutionary had played an instrumental role in helping overthrow Russia's Tsar and creating the Soviet Union.

However Trotsky was forced into exile after loosing a power struggle to eventual Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.

Seva Volkov, Trotsky's grandson, said he was willing to have the blood on the ice-pick tested to see if it was his grandfather's, but would not pay for the murder weapon.

I know nobody cares about stuff like this.
I do.

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