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Ice axe used to murder Trotsky emerges

The weapon used in the 1940 assassination to go on display next year in Washington DC. H. Keith Melton, a private collector, told Dan Damon about the remarkable story of one of the world's most infamous murder weapons.

(Photo: 1922: Russian Marxist theorist and revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Credit: Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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