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During Leon Trotsky's exile, "the Mexican president Lázaro Cárdenas welcomed Trotsky and arranged for a special train to bring him to Mexico City." Stalin managed to have him assassinated in Mexico. What is the history behind Russian Socialists having influence in Mexico?

by /u/Dynamaxion in /r/AskHistorians

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