Word: torments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though Trotsky has usually been regarded as a steely, unsentimental figure, the many letters to his wife Natalya reveal that he also possessed a tender side. During a brief separation from her in 1933, the 53-year-old Trotsky wrote: "What a torment it is for me not to have an old picture of yours, a picture of us together when we were young. Your image, dearest Natalya, as you were when you were young, flickers and vanishes." The aging but indomitable revolutionary added: "Obviously all these years of persecution have had a great effect on my nervous system...