Word: campesinos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Valentin Gonzalez is a legendary killer, bandit and patriot who, under the nickname ''El Campesino" (The Peasant), fought savagely in the Spanish Civil War as a Loyalist division commander. He fled to Russia when Franco won, but his outspoken bluntness was unwelcome in the Soviet Union. He was put to work digging the Moscow subway, was jailed twice and escaped to France in 1948, reporting bitterly that of 6,000 "Spanish comrades'' in Russia, nearly 5,000 had been killed. His disgust with Communism did not diminish his hatred of Franco...
...Campesino set up camp in the Pyrenees, styling himself "Chief of the General Staff for the Reconquest of Spain," and kept crossing the border into Spain on minor raids. Last week the small private war was halted owing to a larger war that El Campesino had nothing to do with-Algeria...
Last August a band of El Campesino's commandos slipped into Spain to blow up a power station. They failed but, getting back to France, killed a Spanish civil guard, wounded another. Franco sent a note of protest to Paris, France, however, pointed out that Spain was giving asylum to dozens of anti-Gaullist conspirators. Dashing Pierre Lagaillarde, 30, who led the 1960 Algiers "revolt of the barricades." was photographed lolling beside the pool at the exclusive Real Madrid Club. Ex-General Raoul Salan, head of the terrorist Secret Army Organization, used Spain as a safe retreat to receive...
...absolutely not interested in Khrushchev," spat one of the Spaniards, a remark that could equally well have been made by the three interned Nationalist Chinese consular employees or the former Royal Albanian Army officer turned house painter. Among the Spaniards was famed peasant General Gonzales, known as "El Campesino." who. after quarreling with his Communist comrades of the Spanish Civil War was imprisoned in the notorious Vorkuta Arctic Circle prison camp, from which he later escaped. Said he angrily: "We who are here are the true friends of France. It is Khrushchev who is the enemy of France...