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Events on Tuesday 17 January 1928 1
1928Trotsky exiled to Alma-AtaStalin banishes his chief rival to Central AsiaLeon Trotsky, expelled from the Communist Party in 1927, was forcibly deported from Moscow to Alma-Ata in Kazakhstan. Other leaders of the Left Opposition were exiled at the same time. Trotsky was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1929.