 The complex was turned into the current museum and asylum institution in 1990, on the 50th anniversary of the assassination.Trotsky was forced into exile outside the Soviet Union in February 1929 because of his criticism of Joseph Stalin's government.For the next eight years, Trotsky and his wife, Natalia Sedova, wandered among several countries under surveillance, and later under a death sentence due to Trotsky's persistent political activity against Stalin from exile.