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domingo, 4 de noviembre de 2018

IN MADRID 1943

three children




Many years ago in a place called Spain, they lived three very young children who were brothers. 
Two girls and a boy who was the child's mother, and it was then much esteemed Having a male in families. 
Although there were not too mimes, he spent downright bad, hunger, deprivation, cold and lack of humor or patience with such misery, little was who received more love and cuddles, as they said their older sisters. This three children were not told anything, lived the life that Vien small always conducive to play and mischief that exasperated his mother who craned their money to make ends meet and not used to be in a good mood.


The father of these children were born in 1914, World War I , and his young son was also born in 1943, during World War II but in their environment, Spain, world war not too noticeable. 

After her, much worse after as the country was isolated with an international blockade have tacitly supported the losers, German forces and its bloody dictator who had previously helped the Spanish dictator hungry He spent anyway, with war and defeating the freely elected government of the second Republic. 


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

After this there was a great repression by the victors, dictatorship, which claimed tens of thousands of lives and nobody dared to speak, assemble, or create conflicts of any order. 
There was no right to strike, assembly, association, and of course the political parties.
The "secret" secret as it was called, polícia requested documentation anywhere else when traveling by train or bus it was exaustivo control and strict. 

The shortage was extreme, it hata the point that ration cards were issued for chords commodities with the number of members of one family. 

He was going to the store when news came that a commodity had come, oil, potatoes, sugar, flour, salt, or other vital supplies to survive. 
There was also no coal or wood to light the fire and to cook. 
Meat was a luxury product, sparse, and the fish did not come to be regarded as the fishing fleet had disappeared. 


For these crios life seemed pleasant, were children at the end of the day and knew something else, at home there was hardly anything, no telephone, no washing machine, no refrigerator, or other appliance that will help in household chores . 
Second - hand radio, a few books inherited from his grandfather and nothing else. 

They went very cold in winter and suffocating in summer, as everyone then, and if they wanted to cool off in summer slept outdoors, drank a jug of mud and took naps at noon. 
With this it was enough, but not his parents who had seen better stages. 


These three brothers lived on the outskirts of Madrid, in the district of Tetuan, were privileged because his father worked all day in office two jobs. 
It was not manual worker, he got up at six thirty and returned at ten o'clock at night. 
When she got home her children were already in bed and was too tired to try to wake them up. 

Life in villages or small towns then was much worse because hardly anywork for the laborers when the fields had been washed away and there was no land grain harvest to plant. 


The black market and hoarding food was the common trend in all places, so that the prevailing dictatorship established a customs or barriers on the outskirts of the towns that impeded free movement of traffic or any food between different territories.
These organizations were called "office supplies" and were responsible to monitor, inspect and report abuses in the composition or distribution of commodities. 

Milk, wine is a watered - , oils, sugar mixed, there was coffee, chicory was ground as a coffee substitute and families used to be rationed bread, sugar, margarine, meat or any food that remediera widespread hunger. 

For these three children seemed to pass life full of adventure, did not know of life and hardship were part of the routine no hankering life changing forthe better because they simply did not know was that.
A better life than carrying nonsense ?, which were almost all day playing in the street after leaving school, and had a good time imagining they were heroes comics then, "The Warrior Mask" or " Roberto Alcazar and Pedrin "among many others. 
The myriad of comics that were published entoces those they liked were those of "Feats Bélicas" but were very expensive, they used to look at them with envy when they saw them at any kiosk of the neighborhood in thehands of others older than them kids. 

They collected trading cards of the films that premiered then and for them it was like film, arriving home was when they returned to the reality of scarcity and bad fumes.

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






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