SOVIET PROPAGANDA IN SPAIN
+ VOTERS SAID TO HAVE BEEN SWAYED BY FILMS (Received February 26, 12.35 a.m.) LONDON, February 24. The Madrid correspondent of the “Daily Mail” declares that the country was flooded with Soviet films representing Russia as an earthly paradise. These were largely instrumental in winning votes for the communists at the elections. A Red procession'passing the civil guard barracks at Pechina, in Almeira, killed a policeman whose comrades returned the fire, killing a member of the procession—whereupon the mob invaded the village. Troops quelled the disturbance.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21717, 26 February 1936, Page 11
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