Analysis
The Spanish Republicans have been lionized for decades for their struggle against Francisco Franco’s pre-war alliance with fascism. The novel reveals an under-publicized truth - that the Spanish Republicans singled out religious targets and many harmless middle class targets and killed or persecuted them. It depicts the Republicans running areas under their control along Stalinist lines.
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