Icepick used to kill Leon Trotsky resurfaces after six decades in Mexico

AP Worldstream | July 11, 2005| | Copyright

MARK STEVENSON, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
07-11-2005
Dateline: MEXICO CITY
One of history's most famous murder weapons, the icepick used to kill Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, has resurfaced after being lost for decades, just weeks before the 65th anniversary of his Aug. 20, 1940, assassination.

But tests that could prove the weapon's authenticity have been delayed by a dispute between the icepick's owner, who is shopping it around, and Trotsky's descendants, who want it donated to a revolutionary museum _ proving that the struggle between socialist ideals and capitalism ...

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