- Ignacio Gallego
Ignacio Gallego Bezares (1914-1990), was a Spanish communist politician, General Secretary of the
Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE).Biography
Born in Siles, Jaén, Gallego fought on the Republican side in the
Spanish Civil War . WhenFrancisco Franco won, Gallego fled and was put in a refugee camp in then French-ruled Algeria. Later, he made his way to theSoviet Union , where he lived until 1945.Gallego secretly returned to Spain in 1976 and made his first public appearance in the country on the day the PCE was legalised (
April 25 ,1977 ). He lived inMadrid and was elected to the Congress of Deputies for the province of Cordoba in the general elections of 1977 and 1979.Gallego formed the Marxist-Leninist and pro-Soviet
Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain after the mainstream PCE fragmented in the wake of an electoral rout in 1982.He died in Madrid. The writer
Ruben Gallego is his grandson.References
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE4D71F3EF937A15752C1A966958260 Death Notice published in the New York Times] , 24 November 1990
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