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On this day - 10 January

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Soviet Union orders Trotsky exiled

Church Times 10/01/1928
Leon Trotsky was a prominent figure in the Soviet Union and worked alongside Lenin as part of his first government. After Lenin's death in 1924, Trotsky strongly opposed Stalin. On January 10th 1928, it was ordered that Trotsky would be exiled and he was sent to Kazakhstan on January 31st. He spent a year there before he was expelled from the Soviet Union and went to Turkey with his family.

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