Bloodstained ice axe used to kill Trotsky emerges after decades in the shadows
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Weapon used in 1940 assassination to go on display next year – but why did Ramón Mercader, armed with a gun and a dagger, resort to the ice pick?
Trotsky and his wife Natalia in 1937. Following the attack, Trotsky died of his wounds in hospital. Mercader was put on trial and was imprisoned for nearly 20 years. Photograph: Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images
Julian Borger in Washington and Jo Tuckman in Mexico City
Wednesday 13 September 2017 19.06 BSTLast modified on Thursday 14 September 2017 08.13 BST
On the evening of 20 August 1940, a man known as Frank Jacson called at a large house in the suburbs of Mexico City, and asked to see the ‘Old Man’ – as everyone called its celebrated resident, Leon Trotsky.
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