Biography of Ramon

Born on February 7 in the city of Barcelona Spain. From the family of a wealthy manufacturer. From his youth, he participated in the labor movement, was a member of the youth communist organization an analogue of the Soviet Komsomol, then joined the Communist Party of Spain. Since October - a participant in the Civil War in Spain, fought in the ranks of the Republican Army.

He went from a lieutenant to the major, became the commissar of the infantry brigade on the Aragon Front. He was wounded in battles. He was taken out of Spain and, under the leadership of the Soviet Chekist N. Eitingon, participated in the preparation of attempts on one of the organizers and leaders of the Great October Socialist Revolution L. Trotsky, sent in the year from the USSR, and in the year of Soviet citizenship, who acted as the initiator of the creation of the 4th International in the year.

In addition, Trotsky and Stalin were personal irreconcilable enemies. In October of the same year, Merkader moved to Mexico City, where Trotsky lived with his family, explaining this allegedly by the affairs of the company - the cover created by Eitingon for him and convinces Ageloff to move to him. In March, he, under the name of the British subject of Jacques, Mornar, with the help of Ageloff, first enters the villa of L.

Trotsky, liked the young man who skillfully impersoned the convinced Trotskyist. Mercader planned to quietly attempt on Trotsky, go out and leave by car. But it did not work out quietly.

The murder gun - an ice ax 7 cm entered the head of Trotsky, but Lev Davidovich did not even lose consciousness, jumped up and began to scream. The guard ran in, and Mercader began to beat, and Trotsky ran around and shouted: “Just do not kill, at first it was necessary to interrogate him. The Merkader explained his act as an act of retaliation from a single fighter who was disappointed in Trotskyism and deceived in the matter of using the financial amounts granted for a long time.

Mercader was kept in police prisons, Continuously subjected to beatings and torture. Only in the year, the Trotskyists managed to establish the real name of Mercader, but even then he did not admit cooperation with Soviet intelligence, explaining the murder by personal motives. Ramon Mercader completely left for the conclusion, was released on May 6 of the year.

In September, he moved to Cuba for health reasons and at the invitation of the Cuban leader Fidel Castro, worked as an adviser to the Ministry of the Interior. He lived in the Cuban capital - the city of Havana, where he died on October 18 from the sarcoma. On the grave, a monument was erected by the Order of Lenin, a photograph of the hero was provided by Alexander Fugolev.