"Under the Sign of Scorpion" by Juri - Gnostic Liberation Front

truly infamous. He was later sent to Mongolia, where he was made chief
of the political police. He began to murder people there with such insane
eagerness that the GPU leadership in Moscow had to call him back,
according to information from Boris Bazhanov's memoirs. He later helped
Trotsky write the propaganda book "How the Revolution Armed". In
1925, Trotsky gave him the mission to pursue the poet Yesenin unto his
death. All this has now been revealed in the Russian press.
The Journalist Georgi Ustinov and his wife Yelizaveta, who also stayed
at the hotel, were the first to enter Yesenin's room on the morning of
December 28th. The assassins had searched through Yesenin's papers and
other belongings. They were probably searching for the manuscript of
"Land of Crooks". (Molodaya Gvardiya, No. 19, 1990.) Wolf Erlich also
turned up soon after. Ustinov understood what had really happened and
promised to tell the whole truth about the poet's murder. On the following
day Georgi Ustinov and his wife were found hanged in their room. It was
certified that violence had been used against them before they died.
On the 29th of December 1925, the evening press announced that the
30-year-old poet Yesenin had taken his own life.
Blumkin was finally sent to the Middle East as soviet spy-chief. He
recruited agents in Syria, Palestine and Egypt. He used a passport in the
name of Sultan-Zade. Blumkin's chiefs then were Vyacheslav Menzhinsky
and Mikhail (Meier) Trilisser.
Hangman Blumkin's days also ended by the aid of hangmen. Stalin had
him executed on the 3rd of November 1929 for his meeting with Trotsky
in Constantinople in the summer of 1929. Before Blumkin died he
shouted: "Long live Trotsky!" (Yuri Felshtinsky, "Collapse of the World
Revolution", London, 1991, pp. 617-618.)
Stalin as Victor
When Trotsky finally realised that it was impossible to manipulate
through Stalin, he began to attack the General Secretary, since Stalin took
his post seriously. At a meeting of the Politburo in the beginning of 1925,
Trotsky called Stalin the gravedigger of the revolution. In spite of
Trotsky's incredibly cruel contributions to the implementation of the
llluminist-Communist policies, Stalin wanted to get rid of him and his
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