The recent publication of the memoirs of Leon Trotsky, exiled Russian Communist leader, in which he severely criticizes the present-day Soviet dictator, Stalin, has so infuriated the latter that in addition to arresting Trotsky’s two daughters, one of whom is dangerously ill from tuberculosis, he has also ordered the arrest of both Trotsky’s sons-in-law.
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