Dolores Ibárruri
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Isidora Dolores Ibárruri Gómez, also known as Pasionaria, was a Spanish Republican politician during the Spanish Civil War and a communist. She is renowned for her slogan ¡No Pasarán!, which she issue
Dolores Ibárruri in 1978
Ibárruri (right) with French activist Bernadette Cattanéo, 1936
Đorđe Andrejević Kun - Pasionaria speaks to the fighters before going to the front, graphic from Spain.
Dolores Ibárruri with Nicolae Ceaușescu during a visit to Bucharest, 1972
Siege of Madrid
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The siege of Madrid was a two-and-a-half-year siege of the Republican-controlled Spanish capital city of Madrid by the Nationalist armies, under General Francisco Franco, during the Spanish Civil War.
Dolores Ibárruri
…the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) and a communist. She is renowned for her slogan ¡No Pasarán! ("They shall not pass!"), which she issued during the Battle for Madrid in November 1936. Ibárruri joined the Spanish Communist Party (Spanish: Partido Comunista Español) when it was founded in 1920. In the 1930s, she became…
Nationalist soldiers raiding a suburb, March 1937
Civilians running away from an unexploded shell.
A bomb crater near Puerta del Sol.
Nationalist aircraft bomb Madrid in late November 1936. Fiat CR 32s, flown by Italian pilots, provide fighter cover.