The Ogpu, the Russian Soviet political police, had condemned to death Leon Trotsky, exiled Communist leader who is now in Constantinople, according to an interview with him published in the Jugoslav newspaper “Vremie.”
Trotsky added, according to the interview, that some of his friends in Russia are now endeavoring to enable him to return to the country.
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