Next Thursday, May 13, it will take place at 19:30 p.m. at the House of Culture the presentation of the latest book by Robert Llopis i Sendra, Brigadiers. Les brigades internacionals a Benissa i Dénia (1937-1938). This is a work that received the Roc Chabás Research grant from the Dénia City Council.
The presentation, in addition to having the author, will have the participation of Eladi Maimar Cabanes, Professor of History at the University of Valencia.
Assistance will be free but requires prior registration, which can be obtained by calling 966420940 XNUMX XNUMX or writing to arxiu@ayto-denia.es.
Synopsis
In the middle of the Civil War, the first permit centers of the International Brigades were opened in Benissa and Dénia. The presence of foreign fighters and their military hospitals had a great impact on the municipalities. How was that time? Who were the men and women of international health? What have we got? Shocking life stories.
Another book taking advantage of how the "soldiers of democracy" were. and so that we can see the "benefits" of communism / socialism.
His trace of crimes, typical of communist agents and enemies of freedom, will never be erased from our memory or from the fields that were filled with murders. Fortunately, these friends of the Soviet Union and the most atrocious communism were defeated in our region, region and nation. Unfortunately the truth does not even prevail today, the dictatorship of what is politically correct and the historical forgetfulness and censorship prevail and the hagiographic books of the losers of the war are a constant characteristic of totalitarian states and apparent democracies.