Posted on 04/20/2024 8:19:06 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1963, Francisco Franco’s government shot Communist agitator Julian Grimau. Grimau (English Wikipedia entry | Spanish), a member of the Communist Party of Spain‘s Central Committee since 1959, had fled to exile after escaping the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939.
But he in 1959 he took over the Communists’ activities within Spain itself, and began living underground in his old homeland. The Franco regime dearly wanted to take him.
In November 1962, secret police arrested Grimau on a bus and hustled him to Madrid’s Puerta del Sol, where within hours Grimau met with that classic 20th century dissident’s fate, the “unexplained” fall from a police headquarters window. No fuss, no —
Wait. Er … it seems he survived the fall......
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He became a good Communist.
The man is a dead ringer for a young Miguel Ferrer.
Bueno! El Caudillo knew how to deal with Commie pigs.
That man’s work probably costed the lives of tens of thousands. There are very few things as evil as the Soviet side in the Spanish American war. Orwell chronicled it well.
There were no soviets in the Spanish-American war.
In the Spanish CIVIL war there were certainly Soviets. Stalin even sent them tanks
And Cheqas as well.
This Just In: Julian Grimau is still dead!
I saw what you did there!
Brain fart… Spanish Civil War
And no Franco either!
” Stalin even sent them tanks”
Stalin made off with the Spanish gold reserves so they were dearly bought.
The irony is that Spain (just like the democrat party) has become very left wing and decadent.
They romanticize the communist side during the civil war. You see it in many of their films portraying Franco’s party as fascist Spain and the communist as the only one’s who care about the downtrodden people. It is sickening how they ignore the many communist atrocities.
Under the filthy closeted homosexual Zapatero, Spain has become a truly depraved society. The most Hedonistic in all of Europe. They deserve to be raped, plundered and conquered (ounce again) by the African Moors. /spit
Did you know that Orwell fought for the Communists during that war. Them trying to liquidate him and his wife kind of changed his tune.
Killing communist Russian sympathizers is never a bad thing. Even if a socialist does the dirty work!
“This Just In: Julian Grimau is still dead!”
But doctors say his condition is stable!
(I love that gag from back when SNL was funny!)
The communists during the Spanish Civil War, were so idealistic and believing in women’s rights to fight in combat, lead many of their young and idealistic followers to slaughter. At least, they were slaughtered equally. Their multiple gendered brigades were a joke!
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