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family to Soviet Supreme Court We the undersigned Vsievolod Volkow Bronstein, Veronica Volkow Fernandez, Nora Dolores Volkow Fernandez, Patricia Volkow Fernandez, and Natalia Volkow Fernandez, grandson and great-granddaughters of Lev Davidovich Bronstein, better known as Leon Trotsky appeal to the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union, rightfully and with all due respect, to definitively grant juridical rehabilitation and restore his honorable name to our grandfather and great-grandfather, Leon Trotsky, declaring all the accusations and slanders made by the Stalin regime against him, against his sons, Leon Sedov and Serge Even though these accusations, among which the most blatant, unbelievable, and inconsistent are that he was an agent at the service of various foreign powers or that he attempted to restore capitalism in the Soviet Union, were always rejected and even considered to be ridiculous by all independens-minded individuals, it is nonetheless necessary that they be declared without foundation by the highest court of law in the Soviet Union. It is necessary in the interest of historical truth, of Soviet legality, and of the deep respect that is due to one of the principal and most untarnished heroes of the October Revolution.

For these reasons, and in light of the ample proof that exists to refute the calumnies against Trotsky calumnies which were part of a political persecution that led to his assassination-we are confident that our appeal will be well received and resolved with justice by the highest tribunal which you preside His Excellency Mr. Vladimir Ivanovich Terebilov President of the Supreme Court of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics VL. Vorovskogo 15 Moscow, USSR Sedov, and against other relatives to be totally false. over.

Sincerely, Mexico, June 13, 1988 N ra Dolores Volkow Fernán dez