Samiramis / samiramas / samirames

by cream pies. Mon May 19, 2003 20:40

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by I Mon May 19, 2003 21:34

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by mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Tue May 20, 2003 10:16

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by - Tue May 20, 2003 13:03

@ the NO indymedia site.

by I Mac D. Fri Apr 02, 2004 15:59

on the 2nd of april 1954, the Greek boat Semiramis arrived in the port of Barcelona,
with 286 spanish citizens who were thus repatriated from the Soviet Union of Stalin's tyranny.

Many of the Seniramis had been given up for dead by their families, imagine their joy to see them again.

229 of those repatriated had been prisoners of war of the Blue Division (offered by Franco to Hitler), which in 1941 had fought on the Eastern front in support of the German Penal divisions (the Wehrmacht sent it's disobedients east, as the "better" option to death or camp), it was perhaps the most horrific military front of the 2nd World War. It certainly was the worst front of what for the Russians is remembered still as the "Great Patriotic War".

Amongst those 286 were also included 19 deserters, 4 "children of Russia", 19 merchant navy men and 15 who ahd been students of aviation in the 2nd Spanish Republic.

The arrival of these 286 Spaniards was orchestrated as a propaganda victory by the Franco-ist regime, and followed two other triumphs, the treaties with the USA, and the Vatican.

The death of Stalin, in March 1953, opened the door for mediation by the French Red Cross with the Soviet authorities for the re-patriation of those spaniards. Not all wished to return, but some did.

At the same time, the composer Shostakovitch awoke to his Spring.
He had lived under terror (of which I have written in hard copy "commercial" I too must eat and pay bills and get my smash ¿who's going to publish it?) and found it more than a little unreal to finally be able to take from their secret places the work of years and years of the music that still voices the spirit of his nation. His sixth string quartet was thus composed, and performed and slowly he too awoke. We know that the Spring did not last as long as it could have, Kruschev was soon to be subject to forces perhaps similiar to those that had twisted Stalin, perhaps not, and the Iron Curtain of which Churchill had fore-warned was not to be forgotten. Hungary proved to be the step too far for those with power in the Stalinist machine, and the rest as hopefully young Europeans and young Americans are learning became the often sad and often optimistic history of the late 20th century.

You may read about the Semiramis at:- http://www.lavanguardia.es/web/20040401/51153824782.html
in Spanish. the only global language which defines itself with two names . Castellano and Español. Perhaps that means something, perhaps it does not. I don't know, and I have no problem saying "I don't know".

by viii Sat May 15, 2004 14:12

a cultural link :-
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/690/he1.htm
a spiritual link :-
http://www.victorynewsmagazine.com/IdentifyingAlMehdiTraditionsReferences.htm

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