TROTSKY’S LIFE IN EXILE
SOME PRIVILEGES ALLOWED KEPT UNDER SURVEILLANCE CENSORSHIP OF. LETTERS By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Feb. 10, 7.15 p.m. Argus. Moscow, Feb. 9. Details of Trotsky’s life show that he is living in the dirty little Siberian town of Wjerny, which is inhabited mainly by Chinese. It is revealed that the hardships of the place are softened by 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, while he receives a monthly pension the equivalent of £22 from the Central Treasury of the Communists. Trotsky is forbidden to write for newspapers, but is completing a theoretical work on Marxism. He cannot leave town without permission, and is not allowed to go more than a mile without escort, while hie correspondence is ti e subject of censorship.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 February 1928, Page 13
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