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- Nov. 27, 1989: Died:Dolores Ibarruri
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Nov. 27, 1989 Art And Money
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 58
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- <p> DIED. Dolores Ibarruri, 93, Communist leader in the Spanish
- Civil War known as "La Pasionaria" (the Passion Flower); in
- Madrid. Ibarruri was famous for her heated and inspiring
- rhetoric on radio broadcasts during the conflict, declaiming "It
- is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" When
- Madrid fell to Franco's forces in 1939, she fled to France and
- then to the Soviet Union. Ibarruri became Communist Party
- President, a largely ceremonial post, in exile in 1960;
- returning to Spain in 1977, she was elected to Parliament.
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- </body></article>
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