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Mexico City
You can still see the bullet holes in the walls of Leon Trotsky’s house in Mexico, from the night when assassins came for him. They opened fire around 4 a.m., waking the exiled communist from a sleep induced by a sedative. “The explosions were too close, right here within the room, next to me and overhead,” wrote Trotsky about the events of May 24, 1940. “Clearly what we had always expected was now happening: we were under attack.”
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John J. Miller, a former national correspondent for National Review, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.
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Mexico City
You can still see the bullet holes in the walls of Leon Trotsky’s house in Mexico, from the night when assassins came for him. They opened fire around 4 a.m., waking the exiled communist from a sleep induced by a sedative. “The explosions were too close, right here within the room, next to me and overhead,” wrote Trotsky about the events of May 24, 1940. “Clearly what we had always expected was now happening: we were under attack.”
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About the Author
John J. Miller, a former national correspondent for National Review, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.
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