All these Trotsky assassination art shows that 99% of the human population have no idea what an ice pick is
Or what an assassin looks like. Or what Trotzky looked like. Only accurate depiction of the scene i've seen so far is :chad-trotsky: :pika-pickaxe:
inb4 "Bu-but Trotzky is black and white and Mercader is in color!". Well, duh. That's because it took place way back in the past, but Mercader is a time traveler.
I think Trotsky never existed in the first place, the whole thing was a social experiment
Trotsky was made up by Lenin to troll the Bolsheviks. No one knows how he kept writing afterwards.
ice pick
Actually people are just calling it the wrong thing, and this picture is fairly accurate.
He wasn't killed with an ice pick, he was killed with an ice axe, which is similar to a rock pick.
This is the actual weapon, that brown stain is Trotsky's blood: https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/88db34ed3d0090c6ae740295d5b9144758af2735/0_757_1536_1217/master/1536.jpg?width=445&quality=45&auto=format&fit=max&dpr=2&s=54315ee51fe535e4f0580c356dd95a40
The adze of the axe wounded Trotsky, fracturing his parietal bone and penetrating 7 cm (2.8 in) into his brain. The blow to his head was bungled and failed to kill Trotsky instantly. Witnesses stated that Trotsky spat on Mercader and began struggling fiercely with him, which resulted in Mercader's hand being broken
Jesus, the dude was tough.
You know, this proves my point about people not knowing what an ice pick is in a roundabout way.
Ahh ice pick you must mean ice axe like in da mountains. -every artist
I suppose it is I who is the fool now. Though this mostly looks like an ice axe to me though I suppose a bit lonnnggg. For a real tall mountaineer
He was wearing a fucking sombrero how could this drawing be so wrong
I will say what I have always said about Trotsky. He is the only man in history that I am aware of to start a political intrigue battle as commander of the armed forces and lose.
