Soldados de Salamina
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- "I was killed by the Reds"?
- Fascist stuff,

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but don't worry. It quotes
José Antonio Primo de Rivera's,

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"It has always been
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a squad of soldiers that has saved
civilization." Published

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in September 1981.
No coincidence.

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Remember February that year.
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Other soldiers tried
to "save civilization."

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Everybody freeze!
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But the book's good
and describes the execution.

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The guy was actually there.
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The last days of the war.
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The Collell church
had been turned into a jail.

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There must have been
1,000 prisoners there, all from

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- cells in Barcelona.
- Did the ones who shot him

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- know who he was?
- Yes.

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They chose prominent fascists.
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Infiltrators, lawyers,
financiers, priests...

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Who gave the order?
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What?
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To have them executed?
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Pascual says a man named Monroy,
who ran the prison.

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Fire!
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Maybe...
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but other possibilities exist.
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Such as?
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Líster.
Now he

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led the 5th Corps
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of the Ebro Army...
or what was left of it.

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They withdrew to the border
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and considered
a last stand in Catalonia.

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Líster was obsessed with acting
as if the war wasn't lost.

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So he gave the order?
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The one sure thing is that they knew
they were executing Sánchez Mazas.

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Surviving that
and hiding in the forest.

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It's like something out of a novel.
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The war's full of such stories.
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Do you know that forest?
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It was full of people.
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Escape groups, people
who'd run away or deserted...

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Not a bad place
to hide or look for help.

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And Sánchez Mazas found help.
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The "Forest Friends."
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- The "Forest Friends"?
- That's what

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he called the three Republican Army
deserters who helped him.


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