Originally Posted By: rayc
Icepickness? Check with Trotsky as to his affection for the affliction.

Apparently his assassin used the wrong end of the tool, so the guitar solo could have done it better:

“A mountaineering ice axe has a narrow end, called the pick, and a flat wide end called the adze. The adze of the axe wounded Trotsky, fracturing his parietal bone and penetrating 7 cm (2.8 in) into his brain. The blow to his head was bungled and failed to kill Trotsky instantly.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky#Assassination