"Everywhere they saw the Spanish comrades as freeloaders." The Spanish communist exile in post-war Czechoslovakia
2022
Abstrakt
The paper looks at the issue of the Spanish communist exile in Czechoslovakia in the 1950s. It concentrates on the fates of Spanish exiles who rebelled against party discipline, doing so through a study of their everyday resistance against party leadership and Czechoslovak authorities.
An analysis of their resistance is set into the context of relations between the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and the Spanish communist party, whereby emphasis is placed on specific forms of repression. The author uses a comparison of the resistance activities of individual exiles and the repressive measures chosen and their effectiveness, in an attempt to shed light on the complex problem of communist exile in a country with a communist regime.