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Sexpionage, Part 3/3: The Lover, the Ax, and Leon Trotsky | NKVD

True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics

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The Ice Axe and Trotsky

ramon markadair enters trotsky's estate. He claims that he wishes to get the great man's feedback on an ar he's written for a communist paper. The moment that the target bows his head to read the article that the spaniard has brought i, ramon strikes him overhead with it. With the blunt end, the ice axe drives more than two inches into trotsky's skull,. piercing his this should be a clean kill, but the old bolshevik puts up a fight. It hurts. Trosky is still cautious. He las at a large, loud scrav this has not gone to plan.

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