Vlady Kibalchich

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Vlady Kibalchich (1920 - 2005) was a Russo-Mexican artist and Trotskyist.

Vlady Kibalchich, the son of famous Anarcho-Bolshevik Victor Serge, was born in Petrograd, Soviet Russia. His mother was Liuba Russokova, who worked as one of Lenin’s stenographers.

In 1936, Kibalchich followed his parents into exile, when they were expelled from the USSR as "Trotskyists" after the rise of Stalinism. They lived first in [[Belgium] and then in France. When World War II broke out Kibalchich and Victor Serge moved to Mexico. In Mexico, Kibalchich met his wife Isabel Diaz Fabela and they got married in 1947, the same year his father died. Kibalchich became a naturalized Mexican citizen in 1949.

In 1989, following the Gorbachov era, Kibalchich traveled to USSR to press for the rehabilitation of Trotsky and Serge.