Leon Trotsky Museum

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The Leon Trotsky House Museum is a museum honoring Leon Trotsky and an organization that works to promote political asylum, located in the Coyoacán borough of Mexico City. The center of the complex is the house in which Trotsky lived with his wife from 1939 to 1940, and where the Russian dissident was murdered. The house has been kept as it was at that time, especially the study in which a Stalin supporter killed Trotsky with an ice axe to the back of the head. Around the house is a garden and high walls with watchtowers. The complex was turned into the current museum and asylum institution in 1990, on the 50th anniversary of the assassination.
Trotsky was forced into exile in 1929 because of his criticism of Joseph Stalin’s government. For the next eight years, Trotsky and his wife, Natalia Sedova, wandered among several countries under a death sentence and pursued by Stalinist agents. In 1937, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo persuaded the Lázaro Cárdenas government to give the Trotskys political asylum in Mexico.
At first, the couple lived at Frida Kahlo’s family home called “La Casa Azul” (The Blue House), which is located in the Coyoacán borough of Mexico City. However, by 1939, Diego Rivera and Leon Trotsky had a falling out. Some stories state that it was over ideology and Diego’s criticism of Trotsky’s writing and others state that Trotsky had had an affair with Frida. The Trotskys then moved to the house on Viena Street in the same borough, not far from The Blue House.

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