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Leon Trotsky
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Leon Trotsky reviewing troops of the Red Guard, c. 1918.
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Leon Trotsky
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Leon Trotsky.
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Leon Trotsky's house in Coyoacán, Mexico.
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Coyoacán, Mexico: Leon Trotsky's house
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