Friends and Families of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade at the unveiling of the UCM Memorial.
Friends and Families of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade at the unveiling of the UCM Memorial.
The Spanish Civil War lasted until 1939 and augured the disaster that was to befall Europe. Franco, who led the rebel forces which attacked and defeated the Republic of Spain, would never have succeeded without Hitler's Condor Legions and Mussolini's Black Shirt troops and tanks. Spain was the first battle in the Second World War.
JekyllinHyde wrote a wonderful two part review on the war in Part I and Part II.
In 2011, a memorial (see the photo above) was placed at the University Complutense de Madrid to the Brigidistas who fought there. Within days, the memorial was defaced with red paint and the word "Rojas" or "Reds". Also within days, Miguel Garcia, a right wing lawyer, had filed a suit to have the monument removed based on a technicality... the local government had not approved the mounting of the monument at the University.
Yesterday, the Tribunal Superior de Madrid ruled. The sad news is over the fold.
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