Tag #137544 - Interview #78465 (Egon Lovith)

Personally, I don’t remember any Jewish customers but there must have been someone my father talked to. It is a fact that he visited Trotsky [3], a well-known Russian-Jewish revolutionist refugee at the time, who was in opposition with the Bolshevik party line in Russia and had to escape from Stalin. Trotsky must have gone to Mexico sooner than my father. [Editor’s note: Trotsky’s expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1929 for ‘anti-Soviet activities’, took place much later than the emigration of Jeno’s father.] Stalin ordered Trotsky to be killed and he was indeed assassinated. My father would have known the facts and probably was aware of the importance of Trotsky and he must have visited him because of the fact that he also had leftist beliefs. My father had to be anti-tsarist because it was by no means comfortable living in Russia when he was there.