Ramón Mercader, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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NKVD agent, murderer of Leon Trotsky
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Place of Birth: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
About Ramón Mercader
- Jaume Ramón Mercader del Río (7 February 1913 – 18 October 1978), more commonly known as Ramón Mercader, was a Spanish communist and NKVD agent who assassinated Leon Trotsky, the renowned Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, in Mexico City in August 1940 with an ice axe.
- He served 20 years in a Mexican prison for the murder.
- Joseph Stalin presented him with an Order of Lenin in absentia.
- Mercader was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union after his release in 1961.
- He divided his time between Cuba and the Soviet Union.
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