Ice Pick for Trotsky: How We Liquidated the 'Demon of the Revolution'

In the history of world and Soviet special services, this operation occupies a special place: on August 21, 1940, in Mexico, NKVD agent Ramon Mercader killed one of the most sinister leaders of the October Revolution, Leon Trotsky (Bronstein).
All previous... attempts by Moscow to eliminate the 'demon of the revolution' failed for various reasons. The most notorious of them was the armed night raid on May 24, 1940, by the 'Horse' group of 20 people, commanded by Mexican artist David Siqueiros, on Leon Trotsky's villa. For 10-15 minutes, the visitors fired at Trotsky's bedroom, also leaving a bomb at its door, which, however, did not go off due to a technical malfunction…
And then the operation 'Duck' was included in the plan – which, although it ultimately achieved its goal, left behind many questions to which there are still no unequivocal answers.
The head of the operation, Pavel Sudoplatov, and one of the executors, David Siqueiros, recall the details of the liquidation of the leader of the world communist movement Leon Trotsky. Their story is complemented by historian of special services Alexander Kolpakidi and expert on the history of intra-party struggle and the history of the left opposition in the VKP(b), Vadim Rogovin.