Why Did Leon Trotsky end up escaping to Mexico?
Trotsky first went on exile to Turkey, Büyükada. (To an island in the sea of Marmara) Then, because of its distance to the Soviet Union and the communist friendly people of Mexico like Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, he moved to Mexico where he thought he would be much more free to publish his articles and attack Stalin. Yes, indeed he went to Mexico because “it was so different from the Soviet Union”, as you say. You know that Latin America was always a safe haven for guilty/not guilty politicians because one sometimes needs to do ‘illegal’ things, like publishing articles attacking Stalin of corruption, to be free. Mexico, in that respect, was a great place but of course, unfortunately even that didn’t save Trotsky. Have a good day too.
