When the first UN secretary-general, Trygve Lie of [[Norway]], a Stalinist sympathizer, was the Minister of Justice in Norway, he told Lenin's former right-hand man [[Leon Trotsky]] not to criticize Stalin or else he would be imprisoned and or kicked out of Norway; Lie eventually put him in prison, but later according to Stalin's wishes exiled him to [[Mexico]] where one of Stalin's hit men assassinated him by hitting his head with a pickax in 1940.<ref>https://www.un.org/apps/news/infocus/trygvie-lie.asp#.WVBpUoWcE2w</ref> As secretary-general, he failed to maintain peace in the 1947 Kashmir conflict, the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict, and the [[Korean War]] from 1950-1953. | When the first UN secretary-general, Trygve Lie of [[Norway]], a Stalinist sympathizer, was the Minister of Justice in Norway, he told Lenin's former right-hand man [[Leon Trotsky]] not to criticize Stalin or else he would be imprisoned and or kicked out of Norway; Lie eventually put him in prison, but later according to Stalin's wishes exiled him to [[Mexico]] where one of Stalin's hit men assassinated him by hitting his head with a pickax in 1940.<ref>https://www.un.org/apps/news/infocus/trygvie-lie.asp#.WVBpUoWcE2w</ref> As secretary-general, he failed to maintain peace in the 1947 Kashmir conflict, the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict, and the [[Korean War]] from 1950-1953. |