Do you mean our Trotskyites? – Paolo entered the discussion. – But they didn’t show any activity in Spain for a long time. Although, according to the political situation in our country and in the whole Europe their positions grow stronger; and it seems to me that they don’t need any action of the kind. The Socialistic International unites Europe into the European Union even without such acts. Today almost in all European countries socialists are in power.

Paolo, what’ your opinion, the Trotskyites are closer to the socialists or to the communists? – Holmes asked.

They don’t understand the difference in party masses, but the Trotskyites bosses are obviously closer to the socialists. For them the permanent socialistic revolution is not an abstraction but the reality, they want to make the whole world to reckon with. However, one should notice that since the second half of the last century they essentially changed their tactics, though still keeping their adherence to the ideas of the permanent socialistic revolution. Having approved the new methods on Japanese “red armies” and Italian “red brigades” in the conditions of the East and the West they decided to globalise the permanent revolution process. But to make the process work by itself they needed to overcome one obstacle, however, though it may seem strange, Trotsky himself was its bearer.

What obstacle do you mean? –Verov asked.

Do you know Trotsky’s testament? – Paolo asked others.

No, – Holmes answered. – But does it really exist?

I can’t say for sure, since nobody saw it in facsimile. Nonetheless, this document exists in hand-written copies; and its spirit and style looks similar to the Trotsky’s pompous style, moreover, it conveys the Trotskyite ideas. If nobody minds, I can familiarize all of you with this text.

Very interesting, – responded Holmes.

Paolo searched his papers for the necessary one and read it aloud.

Testament

My high (and still rising) blood pressure is deceiving those near me about my actual condition.  I am active and able to work but the outcome is evidently near.  These lines will be made public after my death.

I have no need to refute here once again the stupid and vile slander of Stalin and his agents: there is not a single sport on my revolutionary honour.  I have never entered, either directly or indirectly, into any behind-the-scenes agreements or even negotiations with the enemies of the working class. Thousands of Stalin's opponents have fallen victims of similar false accusations.  The new revolutionary generations will rehabilitate their political honour and deal with the Kremlin executioners according to their deserts.

I thank warmly the friends who remained loyal to me through the most difficult hours of my life.  I do not name anyone in particular because I cannot name them all.

However, I consider myself justified in making an exception in the case of my companion, Natalia Ivanovna Sedova.  In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of socialism, fate gave me the happiness of being her husband.  During the almost forty years of our life together she remained an inexhaustible source of love, magnanimity, and tenderness.  She underwent great sufferings, especially in the last period of our lives. But I find some comfort in the fact that she also knew days of happiness.

For forty-three years of my conscious life I have remained a revolutionist; for forty-two of them I have fought under the banner of Marxism.  If I had to begin all over again I would of course try to avoid this or that mistake, but the main course of my life would remain unchanged.  I shall die a proletarian revolutionist, a Marxist, a dialectical materialist, and, consequently, an irreconcilable atheist.  My faith in the communist future of mankind is not less ardent, indeed it is firmer today, than it was in the days of my youth.

Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my room.  I can see the bright green strip of grass beneath the wall, and the clear blue sky above the wall, and sunlight everywhere.  Life is beautiful.  Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.

L. Trotsky

February 27, 1940

Coiyoacan[50]

The listeners silenced for some time waiting Paolo to make some commentaries.

There is a small addition written on March 3, 1940, – he continued. – It deals with this phrase: “My faith in the communist future of mankind is not less ardent, indeed it is firmer today, than it was in the days of my youth” and sounds in the following way: “This belief can be given by no religion”.

It’s known that Trotsky died in the Mexico hospital on August 21, 1940, after Mercader has split his skull with an alpenstock (an ice-axe) on August 19. But nearly three months before this murder and three months later his testament writing on May 24, 1940, a murderous assault on Trotsky was committed. It was made by a group of 22 persons lead by that time still unknown artist David Alfonso Siceiros. The operation had the code name – “the Duck”. It is still considered that the murder was organised by Trotsky’s main enemy – Stalin. But the outward attributes let to think that somebody just made Stalin out an organiser of this in many respects ritual action.

And who is its customer by your opinion? – Holmes asked him.

As I’ve said, I think the customer can be determined because of the outward attributes of the crime. Agree that an alpenstock is not the most convenient instrument of murder. It’s hard to hide it and it’s rather impossible to stab accurately without a practise. Even an ordinary hammer is more opportune. By the way, because of such unsuitable instrument Trotsky’s agony lasted for longer time and he died only on the third day. But nonetheless, somebody insisted on using an alpenstock. It should be regarded as the greetings from Swiss Alps. And for the initiates into such doodads, the group of 22 terrorists should associate either with football-players or with Old Egypt hierophants[51].

Paolo, explain please, who are these hierophants? – The host questioned.

Look here, - Paolo opened the first “picnic”. – Do you see on the top picture four rows of Egyptian figures? Each of them consists of five figures. And on above there are two more similar figures that drive a pair of bulls. A bull was a symbol of the Amon-Ra, a divinity of Ancient Egypt. Per se it’s the symbolic representation of the social system of ruling of the Ancient Egyptian civilization. Literally, the hierophants “ploughed” on Amon-Ra posing him as the god for the crowd. If one of you read the novel “Pharaoh” by Boleslav Pruss, he should have noticed how the zhretses used the Sun god cult for their selfish ends. The milestone of the whole novel is the scene of the crowd’s revolt, which was organised by the zhretses themselves a little time before the solar eclipse they had counted to take place. The crowd refused to obey and then the hierophants promised to “darken the Sun”. When the nerve-strain had reached its top-point, the Sun started to “grow dim” and the crowd felt down on the square before the temple in horror. They believed tat the hierophants had power over the Sun and thus over the whole life on the earth. After the crowd had become obedient its energy could be used for anything the zhretses liked.

The word “hierophant” means “one who knows the future, who reads the fate”, i.e. the matrix scenario of possible events development. They entered the two groups of eleven high zhretses with a supreme hierarch on the top of each. One ruled over the northern and another over the southern part of Ancient Egypt[52]. The opinion exists, that they were the first people who got an understanding of the conceptual power, as the highest level of the hierarchy of power in the society. It is the power that Andrew told of – the power of the certain ideas and the people ruling the ideas.