Not The Top Ice-Pick Of The Bunch

(My AP World History teacher is known for his sarcastic sense of humor and telling us stories related to what we’re learning. On this day, the lesson is on how Russia became the USSR, which is something the people not taking the AP level of the course also learn. My teacher tells us what happened when he told the only class he taught that was not AP one of the stories related to the unit.)

Teacher: “Trotsky was exiled from Russia once Stalin came to power, so he was just trotting around Mexico mumbling ‘I was the smartest man in the world… and now I live in Mexico.’ He was soon assassinated with an ice pick.”

Student: “Really? Cool! Then the ice pick could melt and there would be no evidence on who killed him!”

Teacher: “…”