Vsevolod Volkov was the last living witness to the assassination of a prominent revolutionary in August 1940.
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The grandson of one of the organizers of the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia, Lev Trotsky, Vsevolod Volkov, died at the age of 98. This was reported the previous day by the Mexican newspaper La Jornada, citing a statement from Volkov’s family and friends.
Vsevolod Volkov was born in the USSR in 1926, and in 1939, together with his grandfather, he came to Mexico, where he began to study chemistry. In 1990, Volkov opened the Trotsky house-museum in a house in the metropolitan area of Coyoacan, where he lived with his grandparents.
According to the newspaper, he was the last living witness to the assassination of Trotsky in 1940.
It is known that in the USSR, shortly before the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924, an active struggle for power began within the Communist Party, in which Leon Trotsky was defeated. In November 1927 he was expelled from the party. In January 1929 he was expelled from the USSR, and in 1932 he was deprived of Soviet citizenship.
In 1937, Trotsky received political asylum in Mexico, where he strongly criticized the policies of Joseph Stalin. The Soviet secret services began to prepare for his extermination. The first attempt was made on May 24, 1940, but Trotsky was not injured. After an unsuccessful operation, Soviet intelligence developed another plan to eliminate the revolutionary.
In the late 1930s, NKVD agent Ramon Mercader, a pro-Stalinist Spanish communist, was introduced to Trotsky’s inner circle. On August 20, 1940, in Coyoacan (now part of the Mexico City metropolitan area), Mercader visited Trotsky and hit him on the back of the head with an ice pick. Trotsky died the next day in the hospital and was buried in the courtyard of a house in Coyoacan.
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