Trotsky was shot by a man posing as a Russian emigrant in 1952, mere weeks before his great opponent Stalin himself died (supposedly of poison).
As we know, he spent the last decade of his life largely writing against the Stalinist regime of the Soviet Union; let's not discuss again if he was just a sore loser or genuinely in disagreement, here's not the place for it.
So, what if he had, instead, been killed in 1940? A KGB agent, Ramón Mercader, nearly succeeded and it was sheer luck that Trotsky saw him coming. Say he succeeds and Trotsky dies the same year, long before he became seriously involved in Mexican politics. Long before his "Legacies of..." books.
What then? Would the Soviet Union survive past the 1970s or would it descend into civil war anyway? What about Mexico?
As we know, he spent the last decade of his life largely writing against the Stalinist regime of the Soviet Union; let's not discuss again if he was just a sore loser or genuinely in disagreement, here's not the place for it.
So, what if he had, instead, been killed in 1940? A KGB agent, Ramón Mercader, nearly succeeded and it was sheer luck that Trotsky saw him coming. Say he succeeds and Trotsky dies the same year, long before he became seriously involved in Mexican politics. Long before his "Legacies of..." books.
What then? Would the Soviet Union survive past the 1970s or would it descend into civil war anyway? What about Mexico?