I don’t know what the general historical consensus is. I heard he was killed by some disaffected trot but idk
I’ve never heard that he was killed by anyone other than the Soviets, but I guess they do blame Stalin for a lot of things
how does something like this happen? like presumably somebody told you this after the soviet union was defunct.
maybe in the 40s, even 50s the suggestion that the NKVD wasn’t murdering people abroad might’ve been an important political fiction for the USSR to promote. Even so, when Ramon Mercador was welcomed and given accolades by the USSR immediately on leaving prison should’ve confirmed he was an operative, this was in 1961. In 1994 Sudoplatov’s memoirs recounted the whole affair.
What even is the benefit to saying in recent years that Trotsky’s head just did that? a Trotskyist-terrorist-plot believer should think killing Trotsky was a good idea. The USSR being dead and buried, it doesn’t need defense from the allegation of killing a single man.
