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Day: 21 August 2013

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Anniversary: Leon Trotsky’s assassination

August 21, 2013 Lynn Walsh, <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk">Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)</a>

On 21 August 1940 Leon Trotsky, the Marxist thinker and fighter, and co-leader of the Russian Revolution, along with Lenin, was murdered by one of Stalin’s agents.

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