https://freerepublic.com/tag/pissoffblogkaren/ en-us Sun, 21 Apr 2024 03:19:06 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4232587/posts 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... ExecutedToday.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4232587/posts#comment Sun, 21 Apr 2024 03:19:06 GMT