The Archive · 1936

Trotsky Replies

Kristiansand, Aug. 18.

Leon Trotsky, ce-leader with Nicolai Lenin of the Russian Bolshevik "revolution, emphatically denied to-day the charge made at Moscow that he and other opponents. of M. Josef Stalin were engaged in 8 terroristic plot against the Soviet Government, In an exclusive interview with the United Press to-day, M. Trotsky said that the trial of Mf. Gregory Zinoviev and M. Leo Kamenev on charges of conspiracy to assassinate high Soviet officials, which will open to-morrow, was "one of the greatest, falsitications of history and polities."-United Press.

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