On this day in 1940: Leon Trotsky was assassinated by a Stalinist agent in Mexico.
Leon Trotsky remains one of the most influential and controversial figures of the 20th century, remembered as a driving force ...
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On this day in 2007: Russian politician Boris Yeltsin died
Boris Yeltsin: Russia's First President Boris Yeltsin was a pivotal figure in modern Russian history who led his country through ...
On this day in 1979: The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan
The Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) marked a pivotal moment in Cold War history when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan on December ...
On this day in 1940. Leon Trotsky was assassinated by a Stalinist agent in Mexico.
Leon Trotsky, born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in 1879, was a pivotal figure in the Russian Revolution and early Soviet state. ...
Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader who helped end the Cold War, has died
Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union and a reformer who helped end the Cold War and lead ...