TROTSKY IN EXILE
LIVING IN DIRTY SIBERIAN TOWN (Rec. February 10, 7.15 p.m.) Moscow, February 9. Details of Trotsky’s life show that he is living in the dirty little Siberian town of Wjerny, inhabited mainly by Chinese. It is revealed that the hardships of the place are softened by many privileges not granted to less illustrious persons. He occupies a five-roomed flat in the best house in the town, and is provided with a horse, on which he takes morning rides, and has a monthly pension equivalent to £22 from the Central Treasury of the Communists, Trotsky is forbidden to write for the newspapers, but is completing a theoretical work on Marxism. He cannot leave the town ( without permission, and is not allowed to go more than a mile without an escort. His correspondence is subject to censorship.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 114, 11 February 1928, Page 10
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138TROTSKY IN EXILE Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 114, 11 February 1928, Page 10
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