“Reports in the anti-Semitic press that my father is alive and the sexton of a synagogue are pure invention,” declared Leon Trotzky when he received six German newspaper correspondents at the Hotel Tokatlian in Constantinople. Trotsky declared that his father died six years ago of typhus. Before his death he was the director of the Moscow government mill.
The correspondents quote Trotsky as saying that the White Guards persecuted the elder Trotsky because of the fact that he was the Communist leader’s father, while the Reds persecuted him as a former property owner.
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