Leon Trotsky got the short end of the stick
in battling Josef Stalin.

He wasn’t the only one.

Trotsky bought it in Mexico City in August, ’40,
after an attack
at the hands of a deep cover agent
who was released in ’60 for his part
in the murder.

Trotsky was exiled to Kazakhstan in ’28
then kicked out the USSR entirely in ’29.
He found asylum in Mexico in ’36
but was found guilty by Stalin’s kangaroo court
the same year and was sentenced to death.
Not a great time for Leon.

After his killer, Frank Jacson,
who was really Jacques Mornard,
who was really Ramon Mercader,
pickaxed Trotsky’s skull
and the exile slipped off to a final sleep
the next day, Trotsky was cremated
and laid to rest under a hammer and sickle
in his final home in Mexico City.