Word: comorera
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...mumbled. "I am Comorera...
This is the end of my road, and I'm glad it's over." The Undisciplined. Thus last week Franco's police captured an old enemy: Juan Comorera, 60, once the powerful, dreaded "Lenin of Catalonia" and top man of Spanish Communism in Catalonia...
First a small-town altar boy, then an anticlerical Republican, then a Socialist, Comorera helped found the Catalonian independence movement in the 1930s, a few years later merged it with the Communists and took command. He was Catalonia's Minister of Agriculture and Economy and its strongman when the civil war broke out. Through the war, he commuted regularly between Barcelona and Moscow to relay party orders. He policed the Catalonian party with his own Cheka, men in black leather jackets, crisscrossed by cartridge bandoleers. Their knock on a door in Catalonia usually meant torture and death...
After the Loyalist defeat, he served Communism abroad-in Mexico, where he organized a publishing house as a front for Red Spanish refugees and helped plan Trotsky's assassination; in France, where he ran a school for anti-Franco saboteurs. But Comorera, always strong-willed and undisciplined, became intolerant of Moscow's rule. Reprimanded, he shot back: "We are Spanish Communists, not Russians." He was read out of the party. Even his own Communist daughter attacked him over Radio Moscow. A few months ago, learning that a fellow ex-Communist had been tracked down and killed...
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