Ramón Mercader
Male, Deceased Person
1913 – 1978
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Who was Ramón Mercader?
Jaime Ramón Mercader del Río was a Spanish communist who became infamous as the assassin of the Russian Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky in 1940, in Mexico. Declassified archives have shown that he was a Soviet agent.
He served 20 years in Mexican prison for the murder. Joseph Stalin presented him with an Order of Lenin in absentia. Mercader was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union after his release in 1961.
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- Born
- Feb 7, 1913
Barcelona - Also known as
- Ramon Mercader
- Jaime Ramón Mercader del Río
- Jacques Mornard
- Frank Jacson
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Nationality
- Spain
- Died
- Oct 18, 1978
Havana
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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