In 2018, an exhibit of the International Spy Museum in Washington will be an ice pick that killed the Soviet revolutionary leader on August 20, 1940. Lev Trotsky. This is reported by The Guardian. Also, along with an ice pick, the museum's exhibits will be thousands of other items that were previously inaccessible to the masses. The gun of the murder of Trotsky was first demonstrated at a press conference in Mexico City after his murder. After that, the ice pick was kept in the witness room for several years, then he was taken by the police officer Alfredo Salas, who explained this by wanting to keep the ice ax for his descendants. Later, Salas handed it to his daughter Ana Alicia, who had kept him under the bed for 40 years. In 2005, she decided to sell it, the buyer was a private collector from the United States, Kate Melton, who is one of the founders of the International Spy Museum. Lev Trotsky (Leiba Bronstein) is a revolutionary figure of the twentieth century, one of the organizers of the October Revolution. He was one of the ideologists of the Comintern. In 1929 he was expelled from the USSR, three years later deprived of Soviet citizenship. Killed in 1940 in Mexico by the NKVD agent Ramon Mercader. Soviet power denied its involvement in the death of Trotsky, but in 1960, Mercader, who was imprisoned for this murder for 20 years and arrived in the USSR, was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union and awarded the Order of Lenin.

Original article: The gun of the murder of Trotsky will be shown to the public for the first time in 78 years.