Leon Trotsky's arrival in Mexico
“Why is Stalin in the Kremlin and I in exile?”
In September 1939, the American newspaper New York Herald Tribune published an interview with Leon Trotsky, a deported Soviet politician who was living in Mexico City at the time and was considered Stalins main enemy. The main topic of the interview was the rapprochement between the Soviet Union and Germany and Stalins role in this process:
“Stalin made a pact with Germany because he is afraid of both Hitler and an uprising within the Red Army,” Trotsky said. “The reasons for Stalins fear of his army are that he beheaded it by executing many commanders...”
“At all the trials of the main “enemies of the people” they were accused of hiring Trotsky. But if my hires held all key posts in the staff, why is Stalin in the Kremlin and I in exile?” - Trotsky asked sarcastically.
Russian historian Robert Ivanov in his book “Stalin and the Allies” claims that Stalin was infuriated by this publication in the New York Herald Tribune and made a brutal pillowcase for Yezhov, accusing him of cretinism when fabricating political processes (Nikolai Yezhov was the leader of the NKVD in 1936-1938 and the main perpetrator of the Great Terror, called by many “The Yezhovshchina” - the period of the most massive repression in the USSR - “Old Photos”). “Obviously, the clumsy work of the chief foreman in fabricating trials against “enemies of the people” was one of the reasons that Yezhov would soon be used up,” Ivanov writes.
In the photo, Leon Trotsky and his second wife Natalya Sedova arrive in Mexico, January 1937. Trotskys arrival in Mexico became possible after socialist Lázaro Cardenas won the presidential election. A special train was arranged for Trotsky to take him to Mexico City from the port of Tampico. One of Trotskys greeters is the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, who is in the photo. For the first two years in Mexico City, Leon Trotsky and his wife will be visiting La Casa Azul, the Blue House of Frida Kahlo and her husband, an artist and left-wing politician, Diego Rivera.
Previously in Old Photos: Heavy and Slow, Uncle Joe.
In September 1939, the American newspaper New York Herald Tribune published an interview with Leon Trotsky, a deported Soviet politician who was living in Mexico City at the time and was considered Stalins main enemy. The main topic of the interview was the rapprochement between the Soviet Union and Germany and Stalins role in this process:
“Stalin made a pact with Germany because he is afraid of both Hitler and an uprising within the Red Army,” Trotsky said. “The reasons for Stalins fear of his army are that he beheaded it by executing many commanders...”
“At all the trials of the main “enemies of the people” they were accused of hiring Trotsky. But if my hires held all key posts in the staff, why is Stalin in the Kremlin and I in exile?” - Trotsky asked sarcastically.
Russian historian Robert Ivanov in his book “Stalin and the Allies” claims that Stalin was infuriated by this publication in the New York Herald Tribune and made a brutal pillowcase for Yezhov, accusing him of cretinism when fabricating political processes (Nikolai Yezhov was the leader of the NKVD in 1936-1938 and the main perpetrator of the Great Terror, called by many “The Yezhovshchina” - the period of the most massive repression in the USSR - “Old Photos”). “Obviously, the clumsy work of the chief foreman in fabricating trials against “enemies of the people” was one of the reasons that Yezhov would soon be used up,” Ivanov writes.
In the photo, Leon Trotsky and his second wife Natalya Sedova arrive in Mexico, January 1937. Trotskys arrival in Mexico became possible after socialist Lázaro Cardenas won the presidential election. A special train was arranged for Trotsky to take him to Mexico City from the port of Tampico. One of Trotskys greeters is the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, who is in the photo. For the first two years in Mexico City, Leon Trotsky and his wife will be visiting La Casa Azul, the Blue House of Frida Kahlo and her husband, an artist and left-wing politician, Diego Rivera.
Previously in Old Photos: Heavy and Slow, Uncle Joe.
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