Synopsis:
In the early morning of August 5, 1939, 57 young people were shot in the cemetery of La Almudena in Madrid. Among them, the Thirteen Roses.
These women, outstanding leaders and activists belonging to the Unified Socialist Youth, passed to posterity as fighters who gave their lives for freedom and democracy and as an example of the violence of Franco’s regime against Republican women. But who were they really? And what was the real reason they were shot?
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