Claim: Trotsky’s ice ax has been found

17 Comments on Claim: Trotsky’s ice ax has been found

1. I have tried to pick anothers brain but I never thought of that technique!

2. Could use a few of those in StLouis for the masked crusaders

3. “Hey, Leon – I wanna ax you sumthin’.” THUNK!

4. After 77 years he’s Leon Rotsky!

5. Thanks for axing

   “This is George Washington’s ax.
   It is very old, but what a good ax it is.
   It has had six handles and two heads, but what a good ax it is”

6. That reminds me…Did they ever find Hillary’s other shoe?

7. Look for identifying Marx

8. He probably had a splitting headache that day.

9. Huh. You’d have thought a Soviet KGB assassin, wandering around 1940 Mexico carrying an ice axe– in August–would have aroused some suspicion.

10. I gotta buddy who’s an expert on 20th Century pick axes.

    Best I can do is give you 50 bucks for it.

11. Are they going to dig up Trotsky to see if it fits his axe-hole?

12. The Guardian traces the murky path the ax took after it was wielded by a man who went by Frank Jacson (in reality Spanish communist Ramón Mercader) and visited Trotsky at his Mexico City-area home under the guise of wanting his feedback on an article. It was briefly shown to the public at a police press conference, then stored as evidence until police officer Alfredo Salas took it.

    He gave it to daughter Ana Alicia, who kept it under her bed for decades and then tried to sell it in 2005, telling the Guardian at the time that she was “looking for some financial benefit.”

    It’s like Good Government™ is (in)heritable.

13. There is a fascinating movie on Trotsky’s assassin, Ramon Mercader, “The Chosen” that is a very compelling account of the mind of a dedicated communist, murdering on behalf of Stalin. It’s in several languages with subtitles, depending on where the scenes and people are located. Much better than the earlier one, “The Assassination of Trotsky” with Richard Burton as Trotsky and Alain Delon as Mercader. Never was an ice axe used with more historical purpose than the one that has just been located after all these years.

14. Horsepucky! The real axe was found buried in Hillary Clintons back last November. The odd thing was that the only fingerprints found on it were hers. In any event the axe is on display in the secret Democrat Party Museum found in the basement of the Bill Clinton Presidential Library right beside the cigar shop and just down the hall from the entrance to the Ted Kennedy Lap Dancing Interns Club and next to the Clinton Foundation Savings and Loan.

15. Don’t know if the axman cometh but he must have lost his ax.

    Something about communists not saying “the log in one’s eye” but rather, “the ax in one’s head?”

16. Just so long as he’s still dead … thus should be the fate of all socialists.

    izlamo delenda est …

17. This is not really his ax because he never used it, It is a gift from Uncle Joe.