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Vsevolod Volkov, the grandson of Leon Trotsky, has passed away, RIA Novosti reports. He died at the age of 98 in the Mexican capital.
Vsevolod Volkov was the last living witness to the assassination of the Soviet politician.
The leftist socialist movement of Mexico called Vsevolod Volkov the most devoted defender of his grandfather's story and supporter of his ideas.
The son of Trotsky's eldest daughter Zinaida Volkova was born on March 7, 1926 in the Soviet Union. His father was executed, and his mother committed suicide. The nephew, who became an orphan, was taken with him to France by his uncle Lev Sedov. With him, the boy lived in Paris until his death.
Volkov and his grandfather arrived in Mexico in 1939. In 1940, he witnessed two assassination attempts on Trotsky, in the first of which he himself was slightly wounded.
In Mexico, Volkov studied chemistry and took part in the local socialist movement. In 1990, at the home of his grandparents in the metropolitan area of Coyoacan, he opened the Trotsky House Museum and was its director until his last days.
Trotsky arrived in Mexico as an emigrant at the end of the 1930s, after which he repeatedly tried to leave for the United States, but he failed to obtain an American visa. He was killed on August 20, 1940 in his own house in Mexico City by the Soviet intelligence agent Ramon Mercader.
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