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In the Coyoacan district of Mexico City stands the fortified house where the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky spent the last years of his life in exile and where he was assassinated in 1940, now preserved as a museum to his memory. Driven from the Soviet Union by his rival Joseph Stalin, Trotsky found refuge in Mexico in 1937, welcomed by the painter Diego Rivera and at first living at the nearby Casa Azul of Frida Kahlo before moving to this house. As the threat to his life grew, the house wa...