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From remote, barbaric Alma Alta, on the distent rim of Russian Turkestan, Great Leo Davidovich Trotsky returned, last week, toward the civilized world. With him traveled his wife and son, glad to end a bitter exile (TIME, Jan. 30, 1928). But in European Communist centres it was feared that Trotsky's release from banishment was a trick and prophets croaked that he would be "accidentally" killed en route...
...came at 9:19, surrounded by agents of the Secret Police. Wan and pallid, he strode impassively into the station, stepping quickly, clad in an old, serviceable military cloak. At that symbol the crowd cheered, remembering that Lev Davidovich Trotsky had appeared thus when he organized and commanded the Red Army of 1,500,000 men. Today, however, Trotsky is as threadbare as his cloak. Man and symbol they passed, last week, into a drab railway car which rumbled out of Moscow at twenty minutes after nine. The crowd, moved but still perfectly docile, fell to sobbing plenteous Russian tears...
Where did he go? Why was he banished? The last question must be answered first. Lev Davidovich Trotsky and 50 more prominent Soviet politicians were banished, last week, because they had attempted to lead an opposition wing in the Russian Communist party, a party which brooks no opposition. By command of Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin, the oppositionists had been cast out of the party (TIME, Dec. 26) and expelled from the Soviet Parliament (TIME, Jan. 16). Last week the outcasts were sorted out into grades, according to truculence, and then banished to regions of exile carefully chosen to fit their...
...would pass by caravan over more mountains and steppes to remote Vyernyi, topping the uplands of Semirechensk, and distant some 150 miles from the Chinese frontier, 1,800 miles as the crow flies from Moscow, and 500 miles from the border of India. Thus ringed by remoteness, Lev Davidovich Trotsky will yet have the companionship of his wife and son, both voluntary sharers...
Correspondents in Moscow believed for several days that what had happened was the exile to Siberia and other remote Russian provinces of all the opposition leaders who were recently expelled from the Communist Party and from Parliament (TIME, Dec. 26 and Jan. 16). Chief Oppositionist Lev Davidovich Trotsky, famed "father of the Red Army," chief disciple of Lenin, was reported banished to remote Astrakhan, on the Caspian Sea, whence comes caviar...