Supposedly, some hungry anarchists (?) in Mexico recently broke into The Trotsky Museum (Museo Casa de León Trotsky) in Coyoacán on the outskirts of Mexico City. Once there, they expropriated Trotsky’s ashes, took them home, and made some cookies.
Inside the Museum (Trotsky’s former residence and the location of his murder by a Russian agent) a stone monument engraved with a hammer and sickle marks the spot where Trotsky’s ashes are interred. According to the baking brigade, what they stole was “a silver large vase that bears the inscription of his name, wrapped in the red scarf that he carried around the neck, containing the ashes of the corpse inside”.
Time magazine, Letters, Monday, October 7, 1940:
Sirs:
WHAT THE H —? TIME SEPT. 9, P. 32, SAYS TROTSKY’S ASHES WEIGHED 1.76 LB. LIFE, P. 26, SAYS THE SAME ASHES WEIGHED ABOUT 6 LB. WHAT THE H —?
RODERICK M. MONTGOMERY
Houston, Tex.
≫ Reader Montgomery doesn’t know the worst. A recheck shows Trotsky’s ashes weighed 1,200 grams (2.64 lb.). —ED.
Hmmm…
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