it was thanks to diego rivera, the great painter the trotsky landed in mexico. stalin had routed trotsky in the battle to succeed lenin who died in 1924 and then sent trotsky into exile. the first went to turkey. from turkey trotsky eventually moved to france in 1933. then norway until 1935 until the political pressure on the norwegian government forced it to expel trotsky. what do i mean by political pressure? the first of the famous moscow show trials took place in august of 1936, leading bolsheviks or should say leading communists long trial for the most fantastic crimes including assassination of stalin himself attempted assassination any way, espionage and so on. trotsky was portrayed as the mastermind of a group of spies, wreckers and saboteurs, directing their operations from abroad. that trial, the moscow trials of 1936 was the first of three such trials each one involving major political figures time when the trotsky serving as the chief defendant in the absentia. so what more we wanting to be rid of trotsky, the only country in the world that would tak