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The ax that killed Leon Trotsky

EPISODE · Jun 6, 2019 · 9 MIN

The ax that killed Leon Trotsky

from Retropod · host The Washington Post

Joseph Stalin wanted his political rival dead. When bullets didn’t do the job, his intelligence service tried something even more gruesome.Related episodesThe rat that helped win the Cold WarThe pistols that almost fell from the sky The pistols that almost fell from the sky That time the CIA stole a Russian submarine

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