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By this time, his mother had become a Soviet agent herself, and Ramón followed in her footsteps, traveling to [[Moscow]] shortly before the outbreak of the [[Spanish Civil War]] to train in the arts of [[sabotage]], [[guerrilla warfare]] and [[assassination]]. He was given the codename '''Gnome''' by his superiors.
Mercader's [[Nahum Eitingon|superiors at the NKVD]] selected him to assassinate Trotsky, who had been forced to leave the Soviet Union in [[1929]], after losing a power struggle to Stalin, but who had continued to antagonize the Soviet leader with his writings and political activities in exile. In October [[1939]], Mercader slipped into [[Mexico]] with a fake [[passport]] identifying him as '''Frank Jackson''' <nowiki>[</nowiki>''[[sic]]''<nowiki>]</nowiki>, a [[Canada|Canadian]] citizen.
==Assassination Efforts==
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