In 1940 Ramon Mercader gave this commie the axe... literally!
[DOC] [TLE] Ramn Mercader - Wikipedia [PAR] Jaime Ramn Mercader del Ro (7 February 1913  18 October 1978), more 
commonly known as Ramn Mercader, was a Spanish communist and NKVD 
agent who assassinated the Russian Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky in 1940, 
in ... that "if Trotsky is finished the threat will be eliminated" and gave the direct 
order,... [DOC] [TLE] Ramon Mercader | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers [PAR] Characteristics: Spanish Communist and Soviet agent ... Jaime Ramn Mercader 
del Ro Hernndez (February 7, 1914  October 18, 1978) was ...