Trotsky in the trees: the tragic aftermath of a ‘face’ spotted in the Soviet press
On April 21, 1937, Ukrainians leafing through the newspaper Communist may not have noticed anything remarkable…But one unknown reader noticed — or thought they noticed — something suspicious in a photograph on Page 3 That day the state paper printed reports from the Spanish Civil War, an update on the construction of Kyiv’s parliament building, and the latest speech from Soviet ruler Josef Stalin.
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