Exile
In 1944 Carrillo led the retreat of the communist guerrillas from the Aran Valley.
According to the conservative historian Ricardo de la Cierva, in 1945 Carrillo ordered the execution of fellow communist party member Gabriel León Trilla and helped the Francoist forces to detain the fellow communist Jesús Monzón. According to Enrique Líster and de la Cierva, Carrillo also ordered in 1949 the execution of fellow communist Joan Comorera, who was saved by the precautions he took. In 2005 Carrillo said "yo he tenido que eliminar a alguna persona" (I have had to eliminate someone)
In August 1948, Carrillo met Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
Carrillo became the General Secretary of the PCE in 1960, replacing Dolores Ibárruri (La Pasionaria), who was given the post of Party President. Carrillo's policies were aimed at strengthening the party's position among the working class and intellectual groups, and survived opposition from Marxist-Leninist, Stalinist and social democratic factions. In 1968, when Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia, Carrillo began to distance the party from Moscow.
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