The most tragic years after civil war of the modern era that Spain has suffered is without doubt the forties of the twentieth century after the Civil War. An economic recession caused havoc s in a divided and battered country, where, according to statistics, a population of 26,000,000 inhabitants 300,000 had taken the road of l exile, nearly as much crowded prisons of Franco 's government won a bloody civil war.
The same year that ended in theory that contest the necessary ration cards were introduced to buy any kind of food that were in grocery stores as well as to provide themselves with chips or charcoal to ignite the fire.
The catastrophic dietary and social situation was reflected in the emergence of tuberculosis whose only prevention then, as it still was not known in the country penicillin, was to live in hygienic rooms huge Llen to s beds and eat nutritiously trying that out galore.
Hunger and forced cohabitation of large numbers of people in unwholesome places was the common denominator.
In my case I have come to know when I was little whole families composed of parents and three brothers live in a room with an area no more than 9 square meters and whose use was dining, living room and bedroom, was commonplace in poor families, having to share toilet facilities, kitchen and laundry room with other families living in the same building.Emiliano lived at number four on the street Amalia, the new house listening to comment as the other children, but right at number five co - existed more than twenty families in tiny flats where not even had toilet. There were four p equeña s homes per each floor consisting of four high s more low, five families per floor plus the inhabitants of the bass.
In the middle of the property there was a courtyard with a fountain commu nity and be ie galleried the q ue was accessible to different homes.
Hovels without light or ventilation where entire families were crowded.
We called him "five" and fights or brawls that originated in the building were sounded to the point that ever came together armed police to restore order. My street was a showcase of irresponsible childhood was not aware of anything, so happy, frightened by adults living in very poor salaries and broken dreams by war and misery.
I can not remember a happy childhood but if fun. When you do not know anything other than hunger around you mixed with bad clothes, lack of minimum comfort and dour faces everywhere come to think that the world is like and do not understand the always grumpy and wanting to spank adults at the slightest . Flogging on the back and slaps in the face were our daily bread any small or great mischief. The more repression greatest thrill in being naughty and concoct games cabreran the unhappy older. We loved playing "knock on doors" tying each other by a securely attached to the rope handles. They beat the twosimultaneously running and hiding we threw to see the results.
Laughter or screams betray and ended by sprinting ahead of him as aggrieved women who in the end managed to open their doors. It was the most div ertido.
In summer firecrackers he was thrown through a window open on the ground floor.
The explosion in an enclosure reduced could be thunderous and always was best put by land pissed off when neighbors came out to punish us ad e quately.
Complaints, fights, more complaints from parents and offspring naughty crios was the common standard in l a small street where he lived mos my sisters and myself.
Crios other games were more harmless to n ur parents, tired of working and caring for a small bunch of savages who spent hours swarming the street if not had school.
Girls played l truque also knock or hopscotch and jump rope, when like the guy played together to "boost the Maya" or the hiding, cops and robbers on your take her, or re scate.
All these were winter games because with the cold it Convenia run to get warm.
In spring or summer had we more sedate games, balls, racing sheets, the Bonis or pinswith colored heads that were placed in so- called pincushions.
Interca always they mbiaban "Chromos" or stamps that sold the newsagents in sealed envelopes to five or ten cent imos peseta .
Salian films currently published as card collection that boys without distinction of sex they collected and exchanged in their cliques.
Vendian corresponding albunes to go sticking with explanatory texts of the differentsituations in these collections source movies.
Also he had more luxuries collections as they were very expensive to collect, one that was exciting for everyone er to "Races Human as" as with the imagination to faraway places where they lived strangers, different beings, illustrating the collection traveled.
The first beginnings of trading cards were in black and white , Frankestein, Frankestein and Wolfman, The Mummy, ultimatum to Earth, and as is logical collections of famous footballers that boys treasured as precious assets.
Who couldbored with such istimulos, trading cards, badges, tops, marbles, jacks, jump rope, hideseek, warm hands, and so countless games and pastimes hcornflower apparently minu cough hours spent in the middle of the street.
Although ten iamos at the end of the street Amalia a place we called "esplanade" where inmiddle of nowhere, a large, dry wasteland, was an idealfor thirty or forty boys and girls organize their games without disturbing anyone place. Sometimes on the esplanade she had puppets, jugglers, and even cabrto a trumpet blast was climbed to as a lto of a staircase and made balances and even climb on a chair.
Any small event or this Idole to delight the whole chiquillería including his parents who sat in the holy land and the p iernas cross we watched open - mouthed.
On other occasions and I walk a bit but not approaching the "dustbin" located in the open, and there boys and girl s rebuscabamos in the trash an object that simply make us grace or surprise. Some broken for a bonfire of newspapers furniture and helped the boys howdo we werewe drew our little thing without féminas and Orin we were going over the fire to extinguish.
Ot ras occasions we were doing competitions to see who alcalzaba further with the jet.
Anything that would be fun or authentic s pranks was well coming for the children who were then.
There were two older with not very well differentiated groups, got together at all and those of similar age who always had something secret or forbidden to tell on the subject outside although normally the shots were going in the same direction , the female world and its mysteries.
As came the children, what they did boy and girl, "mete takes" as we said between us and the great mystery would soon be known is where came the peq uenos after being in the belly of the mother , besides l that a women were pregnant and others do not, what was the process or method favored such a cultural issue.
Really did not know anything, all speculations were secret we were trying to unravel without asking who could tell us absolutely, our parents or educator is that it was never a taboo subject.
He never talked about it with anyone but adult or indeed no parents reported their children about such issues.
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Nunce knew, in spite of having sisters, what they were talking girls among them when they were similar to the OU age of seven, eight or nine years, for soon they were removed from the street algarabia and were you held and in their home s. They were becoming young ladies dressed differently and no longer playing with the boys.
E n schools separation of the sexes was extreme and there were very few schools with teaching s for both children s and girls, always in separate classes.
The world fem enyne from ten or eleven wasan absolute mystery to us guys and even most of the time absolutely incomprehensible.
In my case having sisters at home everything was easier, necessarily coexistence made known facets fem enynes the other guys do not know anything and of course I did not say nor pa till.
Our sibling relationship was perfec ta and our secrets were kept with absolute zeal for everyone, the first for our parents not er an awareness of our world well - matched brothers kept playing together respecting that if our modesty and life intimate.
If our parents were going to the movies and we were left alone at home for three of us was a real party. The whole house for the three brothers , move through it, record each and every bosillos ALG looking for a lost especially money. But there were also records in the nightstands, drawers l desk, fashion show where the girls clothes and shoes my mother became, cigarettes smoked with large coughs, pellets pap bent projected by slingshot rubber sob re the q ue they passed under or in front of our balconies and laughter, lots oflaughter and absolute freedom until night to closed.
At nightfall he began fear or dread that someone was lurking under the bed, in the closet or walked through a window.
Thoroughly were checking the house to check that no one could be inside her with us and even then we were comfortable with our nocturnal solitude.
In the forty power outages they were frequent and if this was happening child paroxysm of fear came to extremes of pure hysteria.
His too Torias told by our grandmother, tales sacamantecas or in clu so some as movies los forty exibian to The Mummy, Frankenstein or Nosferatu .
In our areal district of Tetuan to the Cua tro Caminos were six neighborhood theaters, continuous session and mpezaban at four repeated followed the two pe Movie s to put at least two or three times , depended on how long they were and when they cast the closing.
Used to be at 0:30 or one o'clock , that is eight or nine hours straight, with short breaks, film and something called NODE was a compendium of all news favorable to the regime.
If Franco in agura this or that used to be swamps, that if Real Madrid have won this or that party, or if such personality or movie star has arrived at Barajas airport.
It was very high - profile arrival in Madrid of Eva Peron in June 1947 when all doors were closed to him Spain.
Wine stir and pro paganda as collaborative agreements for both countries signed, Spain was isolated, and likewise Argentina I bring wheat from the generous hand of the visitor who was touring the cities and towns in a very poor country Feli z to receive such unusualand generous visit.
Acclaimed and cheered the leader Argentina walk your palm and elegance to the length and breadth of Spain by signs of a generous help by sending ships loaded with wheat grains as needed to make bread.
Postwar period without aid of any Idole, we leave ian outside the Marshal plan was eated to help Recoveries eration of Western European countries devastated after the Second World War, they were extremely grateful for the visit of such an ambassador. The Marshall Planofficially calledEuropean Recovery Program, ERP was an initiative ofUSto helpWestern Europe, where the Americans gave financial aid worth about 13 000 million dollars of the time for rebuilding countries devastated Europe afterWorld War II
. The plan was in operation for four years from April 1948. The US objectives were torebuild those areas destroyed by war, eliminate barriers to trade, modernize European industry and make the continent prosperous again; All these goals were intended to prevent the spread of communism , which had a large and growing influence in post - war Europe. 1 The Marshall Plan required a reduction in interstate barriers, less regulation of business and encouraged increased productivity , the union membership and new models of "modern" business
Eva Peron, Evita, efermó of cervical cancer three years after his visit to Spain and die with 33 years in July 1952 causing great costernación and pain to millions of Argentines and even countless Spaniards grateful remembered for many years his clamorous visit to Spain when no one deigned to appear for his country.
About to turn four when Eva Peron visited Spain still keep some memory of the comments that led to his visit, as well as the widespread agradacemiento aroused your support to our hungry country.
The regime took advantage of his arrival for his own self - promotion as you would in subsequent years.
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