Dolores Ibarruri, La Pasionaria, (1895-1989)

Photographic portrait of Dolores Ibarruri, the Spanish politician and propagandist, pictured in 1936. She was better known as La Pasionaria, a pseudonym gained while writing for a miner's newspaper, El Minero Vizcaino, in the 1910's. When the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936, Ibarruri became chief propagandist for the Republican Government, giving many memorable speeches, including The fascists shall not pass. No pasaran

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