The Moldavian Soviet Republic should have served, in Soviet intentions, as a force of attraction for Bessarabic irredentism, especially since part of the population was of Moldovan origin and the Moldovan dialect was recognized as an official language. Following the Soviet annexation of Bessarabia in June 1940, the Seventh Session […]
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A bit of history The name of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg comes from the High German “lucilinburch” which means “small town”. The first human settlements on the territory of the duchy appeared 35,000 years ago, which is confirmed by ancient artifacts found in the town of Otringen. In the […]
On the side of the Reds, the military situation is less rich in initiatives and less dense in developments. After the two valid resistances of Madrid (autumn 1936, Guadalajara) nothing new until the spring of 1937, when the revolutionary mystic of Caballero ordered the reds to implement the project of […]
Azaña had banished Franco in Morocco, who in October 1934 had greatly influenced the struggle against the revolution by the Ministry of War. Thoughtful of the fate of his country upset by relentless social hatreds, the general decided to join the struggle to put an end to the frenetic activity […]
After the October revolution there were five radically-led governments with the support of the right-wing parties and always under the presidency of Lerroux. These governments failed in order to give a democratic order to Spain with a right orientation; chief responsible for this failure was Gil Robles, who disappointed so […]
Gil Robles, apart from his insufficiency as a man of action, expressed the passionate reaction of the injured conscience of Catholic Spain and partly of the average opinion of the intellectual bourgeoisie itself. Its program consisted of the following cornerstones: revision of the Constitution, primarily in what concerns religious questions; […]
The secularization of education was in fact decreed: the law of June 2, 1933 fully implemented this program, certainly prohibiting the teaching given “by religious and other persons designated for this purpose by the Church”, to the detriment of many families who they found themselves deprived, especially in the field […]
Primo de Rivera, full of energy and good will but learning the burdensome task, without a real political base in the country, and ultimately also abandoned by the king, who asked for the resignation of the dictator, left power on January 28, 1930. General Berenguer was chosen as successor, as […]
HISTORY: THE CHRISTIAN STATES OF THE NORTH UP TO THE 13TH CENTURY Parallel to the history of Al-Andálus, and in close relationship with it, that of the Christian states of the North develops. For a historical paradox, the mountaineers-marauders of the Cantabrian and Pyrenees, who had so much resistance to […]
HISTORY: THE CATHOLIC KINGS According to Sourcemakeup, the tendency towards the unification of the peninsular kingdoms came from far away, at least since it was reborn in the Asturias of the century. VIII the Isidorian myth of the “Gothic monarchy” (also evident in the adoption of names of Germanic origin […]