Was Stalin killed by Leon Trotsky?

Exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded by an ice-ax-wielding assassin at his compound outside Mexico City. The killer--Ramón Mercader--was a Spanish communist and probable agent of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. ... The Menendez brothers murder their parents. read more

Leon Trotsky (/ ˈ t r ɒ t s k i /; born Lev Davidovich Bronstein; 7 November [O.S. 26 October] 1879 – 21 August 1940) was a Russian revolutionary, theorist, and Soviet politician. read more

Leon Trotsky, a leader of the Bolshevik revolution and early architect of the Soviet state, is deported by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to Alma-Ata in remote Soviet Central Asia. He lived there in internal exile for a year before being banished from the USSR forever by Stalin. read more

Stalin died of a stroke. Some people think he was poisoned but that's not the point. Stalin had Trotsky killed. Not the other way around. read more