Eighty-five years ago today, August 21, 1940 (July 18, 1940 in the lunar calendar), Russian politician Trotsky was assassinated. Trotsky On August 20, 1940, Russian politician Trotsky was chopped on the head with an ice axe by a Spaniard named Ramon Mercadé in his residence in Coiucan, a suburb of Mexico. He died on August 21 due to his injuries. Trotsky, formerly known as Leon Davidovich Blomstein, was born in 1879 into a kulak family in Ukraine. He began to participate in the workers 'movement in 1896. He was arrested and imprisoned many times during the revolution and escaped many times. Before the October Revolution in Russia, he was already a world-renowned leader. In the early days of the founding of the Soviet Union, Trotsky served as chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council. Lenin praised him as the founder of the Red Army. In the war-torn era, he personally visited the front line to command operations and made immortal contributions to defending the new Soviet regime. After Lenin's death, due to various subjective and objective reasons, Trotsky became a loser in the intra-party struggle. He was expelled to Turkey in January 1929. He lived in France in 1933, moved to Norway in 1935, and finally went to Mexico. Live. The inside story of Trotsky's murder has not yet been fully revealed. The murderer Ramon was the lover of Sylvia, a Trotsky believer. He had long known Trotsky and often came and went to his house. On August 20, Ramon, wearing a raincoat and hiding an ice axe, entered the residence on the pretext of asking Trotsky to revise his article, taking advantage of his unpreparedness to commit a crime. The murderer was caught on the spot. He carried a pre-written suicide note during the assassination, claiming that he was a Trotsky follower. Later, he learned that Trotsky turned out to be a terrible liar. Especially once Trotsky ordered him to infiltrate into Moscow to assassinate Stalin. He was scolded for not wanting to go, so he decided to bury the liar for the sake of the working class of the world. Most people believe that the things mentioned in this suicide note are fabricated. The background of the murder may be very complex. At that time, people suspected Stalin of ordering the murder. In May 1940, Trotsky accused Stalin of organizing an attempted assassination on him. On his deathbed, Trotsky said: "I firmly believe that the Fourth International will win." Trotsky Trotsky