{"id":935,"date":"2023-02-16T01:51:17","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T01:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jailingopinions.com\/realhistory\/?p=935"},"modified":"2023-02-16T01:51:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T01:51:23","slug":"spanish-patriots-mark-two-contrasting-anniversaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jailingopinions.com\/realhistory\/spanish-patriots-mark-two-contrasting-anniversaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish patriots mark two contrasting anniversaries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This week Spanish patriots marked two contrasting anniversaries from the Second World War, and defied attempts by European governments to silence real history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Devenir Europeo<\/a> organised a nationwide campaign of posters, leaflets and stickers commemorating the greatest crime of the war \u2013 the destruction of Dresden in February 1945 by the Royal Air Force and the American USAAF in a deliberate terror bombing of unprecedented scale and brutality. (Click here for an analysis of the background to that war crime.<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This educational campaign focused on Spanish universities, museums and other symbolic venues including the ‘Winston Churchill Park’ opened a decade ago in Barcelona, where (thanks to Devenir Europeo activists) citizens and tourists were this week able to see the true face of Winston Churchill, the war criminal.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Posters commemorating the Dresden atrocity were displayed at venues included the Alcazar of Segovia, which is now a museum and military archive.<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Devenir Europeo activists placed posters in several Spanish cities, concentrating on university campuses, such as here in Madrid.<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

This week Spaniards marked their own very different anniversary: eighty years ago, in February 1943, the 4,000 volunteers of the Divisi\u00f3n Azul<\/em> defeated a vastly greater force from Stalin’s Red Army at the Battle of Krasny Bor, near Leningrad, enabling German forces to regroup and \u2013 after what had seemed certain defeat \u2013 maintain the Leningrad front for another year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking at the Divisi\u00f3n Azul memorial at the Almudena cemetery in Madrid<\/a>, Isabel Peralta \u2013 a brave campaigner for real history, Devenir Europeo activist, and Heritage & Destiny<\/a><\/em> correspondent \u2013 explained that her compatriots won their great victory at Krasny Bor not because they had greater numbers or better weapons, but because they had a higher faith in the true European ideal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Isabel was speaking under Spanish jurisdiction where her words are legal: we report them here in the interest of accuracy and for readers’ information, while acknowledging that we would not use the same words in the UK or in other jurisdictions where they are illegal.)<\/p>\n\n\n

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Isabel Peralta at the Divisi\u00f3n Azul memorial this week for the 80th anniversary of the heroic Battle of Krasny Bor.<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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