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On anniversary of murder, museum
for Trotsky proves to be tourist draw
Larry Luxner
Leon Trotsky's tombstone, engraved with communist symbols, in Mexico City.
It has been 65 years since the murder of Leon Trotsky, arguably the most famous Jew ever to live in Mexico, but the anniversary is overshadowed by controversy over the bloodstained icepick used to kill the Communist revolutionary.

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