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Original Title: TIL during Leon Trotskys assisination he fought back fiercely, breaking the assasins hand. But was struck in the head with an ice axe. When guards rushed in, they nearly killed the assasin, but Trotsky insisted he be interrogated. Despite emergency surgery, Trotsky died the next day from blood loss.