Can You Answer these 40 History Questions?

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39. What was the cause of death of famous Soviet revolutionary Leon Trotsky?

Retry Correct Incorrect Communist revolutionary and Menshevik leader, Leon Trotsky, was assassinated at his Mexico City by Ramón Mercader, the lover of a woman who was planted at the Trotsky household at the behest of the NKVD –the Soviet secret police. Trotsky, a Russian Jew born Lev Davidovich Bronstein, embraced Marxism at an early age and spent some years in exile in England where he collaborated with Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the Communist Revolution. When Lenin died in 1924, Stalin purged the Communist party of all opposition.
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39. What was the cause of death of famous Soviet revolutionary Leon Trotsky?

  • Natural Causes
  • Died fighting in the Communist revolution
  • Stabbed to death with an icepick by a Soviet agent
  • Poisoned to death by former wife
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