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Monday, August 20, 2012
Trotsky's grandson is alive and living in Mexico
Esteban Volkov is the 86-year-old grandson of Leon Trotsky. In this video from the Guardian website, he recalls the two assassination attempts orchestrated by Stalin on his grandfather, the second of which was successful. Volkov, as a boy, almost perished in the first himself.
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