Timing of Trotsky's Assassination
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In 1936 Trotsky was convicted by a Moscow court to death in absentia. After that the 4 years before his assassination was just a technical period of preparation for the perpetration of the sentence.
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I'm not sure there's going to be a definitive source for an answer to this.
From a (sociopathic autocrat's) political standpoint, I do think it was good timing. If he'd done it earlier when the guy was still in the news and had lots of followers, he would have created more of a martyr.
Better to let things cool down for a while, perhaps spend a few years finding and purging any well-placed followers he had and letting the state propaganda system have some time to lessen any following he had among the people. Then, when the guy's bascially already a non-entity, kill him to show the world what you do to folks who go up against you.
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He was exiled to Turkey by way of Khazakstan and not Siberia - and it wasn't until the Show Trials until Stalin felt he had consolidated enough power to order Trotsky's death.
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