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The First Days of the Spanish Civil War

It Could Happen Here

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The Night Before the Popular Liceick

86 years ago in barcelona, pau cassal was leading the final rehearsals for the opening ceremony of the popular olympics. They had already practised the hymn of the popolympics. Now they moved to beethoven's night symphony. Cassals recounted what happened next in his memoirs. He said: "I could not see the notes because of my tears" So that's how pa cosal starts a civil war.

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