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Bloody ice-axe that killed Russian revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky resurfaces after decades spent under a bed in Mexico City; The old Commies used a pick-ax, Putin uses plutonium
Topic Started: Sep 14 2017, 01:35 PM (83 Views)
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Artifact collector H Keith Melton spent 40 years looking for the ice-climbing axe
It was the weapon used to kill Russian revolutionary leader Trotsky back in 1940
A museum staff member stole it and gave it to himself as a retirement present
Since 1960, after he gave it to his daughter, it has been under a bed in Mexico


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4884028/Bloody-ice-climbing-axe-killed-Trotsky-resurfaces.html#ixzz4sfwYr8vx


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It's hard to believe.

In a few short weeks one of the great milestones in human history will be remembered, the November 1917 Russian Revolution. The people who participated in it, the deaths and suffering and the incredible violence have now been long forgotten. The dust of time has settled on the books written about those dramatic events. Conquest. Solzhenitsyn. The genocide of Ukrainians. The misery. The suffering. Long gone. It's been, My God, one hundred years since it all started. It changed the world, and the course of human history, forever. Never before have so many innocent people died for a political cause. Tens of millions. In the camps of Murmansk to the eastern reaches of Irkutsk and Siberia. A knock on the door in the middle of the night, and then off to the Lubyanka for further questioning. Then, off to the camps in train cars, not too dissimilar from those train cars heading to Auschwitz a few years later. People died horrible deaths. Starvation. Hunger. The cold.

Vladimir Ulyanov, Lenin, was a creep, a disgusting, cold-blooded vile human being with no morals and few redeeming virtues. A screwball. A killer. A few eggs needed to be broken, and broke them he did, by the millions. His assistant, Trotsky, was an equally repugnant individual who lost out on the ensuing power struggle with Stalin after the death of Lenin. He, Trotsky, befittingly died a violent death in Mexico City with a pick-ax (see above). There is no need to shed tears here for the death of Trotsky. He wouldn't have shed tears for your death either. He was barbaric, ...as were all of them. They destroyed Russia. They destroyed its people, its culture and its institutions. The Russian people are surely the equal of any civilization on this earth. They excel in all things, ... the arts, music, dance and intellectual curiosity. They got a bad break. They allowed a vulgar human being to grab political power 100 years ago. It should be a warning to all, even a hundred years later, beware of the demagogue. The Russian people paid for it with their history.

Today, Russia has another thug in power. Just as creepy, just as amoral and probably the most dangerous man on this earth. He has the power of the atom. A street thug from Leningrad. KGB. A narcissist. Make no mistake, he is a dictator, little different than Hitler or Stalin. There is no free press in Russia today, there is no democracy. It is an authoritarian state. Period.

How much has changed in one hundred years in Russia? Not much. Stalin killed his rivals by sending agents all over the world, and in this case Mexico City to place a pick ax in the forehead of Leon Trotsky. Putin, on the other hand, sends his agents to London to place plutonium in the tea of his detractor in a hotel lobby.

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...."Nine years after former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned in a plush London hotel in what has been described as Russian"state-sponsored nuclear terrorism", a public inquiry into his death finally begins in London next week.

Kremlin-critic Litvinenko, who had been granted British citizenship, died after drinking tea poisoned with a rare radioactive isotope in November 2006 and from his deathbed he accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of ordering his murder.

Russia has always rejected the claim, but British authorities say there is evidence to charge two ex-KGB agents with murder. The judge who will oversee the inquiry has already cited a "prima facie case" indicating Russian involvement." ....



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