The pointed pick struck Trotsky’s skull, punching through his parietal bone and penetrating almost three inches into his brain. Trotsky let out [a] long, mournful cry [that Mercader never forgot]. Despite his injury, he fought back. He spat in Mercader’s face and began struggling with him, biting his hand. The sixty‐year‐old Trotsky put up such a fight [that] he broke Mercader’s hand, and the commotion drew Trotsky’s bodyguards. Bursting into the room they latched onto Mercader and started to beat him savagely. Only Trotsky’s intervention saved him.

“No … don’t … kill … him.” Trotsky labored to speak. “We… need … answers.” The men did as he said and restrained the bruised and bleeding assassin.

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The climate in Mexico varies significantly with its topography. Although much of Mexico contains arid deserts and tropical environments, mountaineering is practiced, particularly on the high-altitude volcanoes in the inner part of the country, some of which are within 60 miles of Mexico City. These volcanoes are crowned with snow and ice and require appropriate mountaineering equipment (e.g. ice axes) for successful ascents. While it is possible that Ramon Mercader chose an ice axe to assassinate Trotsky because he was a mountaineer, owned the object, and was skilled in its use, no evidence of his participation in this alpine activity has surfaced. Rather, Mercader’s association with the Soviet security apparatus may shed light on his choice of weapon for the assassination.

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@anneapplebaum

Opinion discarded!

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Yet nobody’s been flocking over to the left communists, anarchists, or Trotskyists last time I checked. Funny that.

He murdered one hundred million straight white capitalist men.

Are you sure that none of the foreign releases or television screenings had this credit either?

So, uh… just curious: what is it that they think that Washington has been doing in other countries’ elections for the past one hundred years?

Are these helpful at all?

Usually Wikipedia is okay if, as it says, you use it as ‘a starting point for serious research, not an endpoint.’ The problem is that, in practice, roughly 95% of the people referencing it don’t use it this way and instead mistake it as a substitute for serious research.

It’s basically the Walmart of educational materials.

WAIT wait wait wait wait, hold on, okay…so…uhhhh…okay, so, when you say

Stalin was neither a brutal dictator nor someone to worship.

what you’re REALLY saying is

Stalin was a brutal dictator and someone to worship.

is this right??? pls tell me

Uhhhhhh…wait…uhhhh…uhhhhhh…when you say

all historical evidence shows that he wasn’t

what you really mean is

all historical evidence shows that he was

right???

how come u get to cite the cia calling him not a dictator

but we dont get to cite wikipedia which the cia edits calling him 1

huh

its not fair

He was never a dictator

Are you saying that he was a dictator?

You don’t have to worry about that if you have a good job with premium health insurance. America is a sink or swim country and there’s no life gaurd on duty. If you want socialism/communism, just move to China, Russia, North Korea, or Cuba because that shit ain’t gonna happen here.

I promise that Russia will lose the war tomorrow.

I’m so tired that I thought that I was looking at a map of Vietnam.

There are some great videos on the Hasidim that you should watch some time, but many of them are a few dozen minutes long. I am sure that you’ll enjoy them, though. There is one boy in the series who reminds me of Omar Mukhtar.

If you don’t have a lot of time you could watch this miniseries of Ashkenazim and Sephardim exchanging culture. It’s much lighter on the Judaism content, but it’s pretty fun.

I made a similar observation several years ago. For the American tribes still present, The Man in the High Castle is a reality for them.

https://web.archive.org/web/20070614140107/http://yale.edu/gsp/publications/WaiKeng.doc

The [Axis] Occupation of Singapore from February 1942 to August 1945 was a particularly momentous period of loss and sacrifice for the Chinese population as compared to other ethnicities, because they were the targets of brutal [Imperial] military policies. During a month of screening procedures and indiscriminate massacres in 1942 known as sook ching, or cleansing operations, an undetermined number of civilians were separated from their families and friends and suffered uncertain fates. In many cases, the last time relatives saw loved ones was at a screening center before the unlucky victims were driven away in trucks to unknown destinations.