Abstrakt
The question of the Spanish communist exile in socialist Czechoslovakia remains one of the most unknown topics within the republican exile after the World War II. However, in the 1950s and 1960s, several prominent PCE militants, including members of the party's Central Committee, were living in Czechoslovakia.
In the memoirs of personalities such as E. Líster, M.
Tagüeña, C. Parga or T.
Pámies, it is possible to observe their confrontation with the Czechoslovak reality at the time of purges in the 1950s, as well as with the invasion by the Warsaw Pact in 1968. These events are also described in the testimonies of their children, that is, in the memories of the second generation of exile.
The objective of this study is to analyze the vision, often utopian, of the socialist society by Spanish exiles; contextualizing it and comparing it with the reflection of the second generation of exiles.