HISTORY: Twinkling-eyed mass-murderer of the Spanish Civil War*

News that one of the great pillars of democracy had fallen was announced on September 18 by the BBC: “Santiago Carrillo: Spanish Communist and democracy leader dies.”
That symbiotic linking of “communist” and “democracy” demonstrated the corporation’s sophisticated appreciation of ideological nuances; it is an axiom that, when a country is struggling to establish democracy, its first recourse is to the general secretary of the Communist Party.

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