The May Days split the Republic
1937 · Event
In Barcelona the Republic's factions turn their guns on each other — communists and police against anarchists and the POUM — five days of barricades that end with the revolution suppressed by its own side. Orwell, on a rooftop with a rifle, turns what he saw into Homage to Catalonia.
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- Siege of Madrid (1936)
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