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Pasionaria

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Pasionaria
La , real name Dolores Ibarruri. 1895--1989, Spanish Communist leader, who lived in exile in the Soviet Union (1939--75)


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Aquotation from La Pasionaria is written on the base of the statue - " Better to die on your feet than live forever on your knees.
The firebrand communist politician Dolores Ibárruri, known as La Pasionaria, gave them a rousing send-off as tens of thousands of people packed the streets of Barcelona.
Mattson, who once gave Hemingway a lift to the front in his ambulance (“he just kind of sat there”), thought La Pasionaria, the Basque firebrand and Communist leader, better embodied the “audacity of hope” than either Mr.
 
 
 
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