biography
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Ibárruri (Gómez), Dolores
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known as la Pasionaria (‘The Passionflower’)
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pronunciation:
[eebaruree]
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| female
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| lived:
| (1895–1989)
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| biography:
| Spanish politician and orator, born of a Catholic mining family in Gallarta, N Spain. She became a member of the Central Committee of the Spanish Communist Party (1930), served as Spanish delegate to the Third International (1933, 1935), and was elected deputy to the Spanish Cortes (1936). With the outbreak of the Civil War (1936), she became the Republic's most emotional and effective propagandist. After the war she took refuge in the USSR, becoming president of the Spanish Communist Party in exile. In 1977 she returned to Spain as Communist deputy for Asturias. |
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