THERE WAS A PLACE

 

 

Many years ago in a place called Spain, lived three very young children who were brothers. 
Two girls and one boy who was the child's mother, and it is believed that much then having a male in the family.
Though there was little pampering, it went really bad, hunger, deprivation, cold and lack of humor or patience with such misery, little was who received more affection or cuddling, as they said their older sisters.

This three children were not told anything, lived the life you always favorable winds the little ones to play and mischief that exasperated his mother who stretched the money to make ends meet and not used in a good mood.

these children's father was born in 1914, First World War, and her young son also was born in 1943, the middle of World War although their surroundings, Spain, world war not too noticeable. 

hunger is happening anyway, with war and after it, and after much worse that the country was isolated with an international blockade have tacitly supported the losers, German forces and their bloody dictator who had previously helped the Spanish dictator to defeat the freely elected government of the Second Republic.

Spain was a poor country, hungry, repressive, where individual or collective liberties had been mowed or rennet arracandas after a long civil war that pitted brother against brother, neighbors, family, friends and ended up with more than a million dead in battle and outside it, killed, massacred anonymously buried by both sides in contention.

After this there was a big crackdown by the victors, dictatorship, tens of thousands of lives and no one dared to speak, assemble, or create conflicts of any order.
There was no right to strike, assembly, association, and of course the political parties.
's "secret", secret as it was called, asked polícia documentation anywhere else when traveling by train or bus as the control was exaustivo and strict.

scarcity was extreme, hata point that ration cards were issued for chords commodities with the number of members of the same family.


was going to the store when he heard news that a commodity reached, oil , potatoes, sugar, flour, salt, or any other vital subsistence supply. 
had either coal or wood for you light the fire and to cook. 
The meat was a luxury product, sparse, and the fish did not come to be regarded as the fleet fishing had disappeared.


For these crios life seemed pleasant, were children at the end of the day and knew no otherwise, at home there was almost nothing, no telephone, no washing machine, no refrigerator or any other appliance to help in housework.
A radio second hand, few books inherited from his grandfather and nothing else. 

too cold in winter and suffocating in summer, as everyone then went by, and if you wanted to cool off in summer slept outdoors drank a jug of mud and slept nap at noon.
Centre this will suffice, but not to their parents who had seen better stages.



these three brothers lived on the outskirts of Madrid, in the district of Tetuan de las Victorias, were about privileged, because his father worked all day in office two jobs. 
was not a manual worker, got up at half past six and was returning at ten o'clock at night.
came home when her children were already in bed and I was too tired to try to wake them up.

's life in villages or small towns then was much worse because hardly had work for day laborers when the fields had been destroyed and there was no grain to reap no land to plant.

's black market and food hoarding was the common trend in all places, so that the prevailing dictatorship established a customs or barriers outside populations that prevented traffic or free movement of any food between territories.
Such organisms are there called "office supplies "and were responsible to monitor, inspect and report abuses in the composition or distribution of commodities.

milk, wine is aguaban, oils, sugar is mixed, there was no coffee, chicory was ground as a substitute for Coffee and families are used to ration bread, sugar, margarine, meat or any food remediera widespread hunger.

For these three children looked elapse life filled with adventure, did not know the hardships of life and were part routine not craving a life change for the better because I just did not know that was that.
A better than they did?, that nonsense, were almost all day playing in the street after leaving school life, and I had a good time imagining they were heroes comics then, "The Warrior Mask" or "Roberto Alcazar and Pedrín" among many others. 
From countless comics that were published entoces which were liked more of "Battle Feats" but they were very expensive, they used to look at them with envy when they saw them at any kiosk of the neighborhood in the hands of other more older than them babies.

They collected stickers of movies that premiered then and for them it was like theater, to get home was when he returned to the reality of scarcity and bad smoke.

The local cinema was his refuge and sought to go at least one day a week sessions for children, where crios thronged the grounds of foot, seat and they cared that to them just to watch a western or meet with mouth open watching the homes of Americans in a comedy of then.



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