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The Civil War Bullet Holes Are Still in the Walls
The Civil War Bullet Holes Are Still in the Walls
Madrid was besieged nearly three years during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). First modern urban bombardment — German and Italian planes testing tactics they'd refine in WWII. Shell marks on Gran Via buildings are still visible. The Bunkers of El Capricho Park were Republican Army headquarters. The Reina Sofia houses Picasso's Guernica.
Spain's democratic transition chose silence over reckoning — the Pact of Forgetting. The bullet holes are still in the walls. The conversation about what they mean is still in progress.
