On this day, in July 1936, José Calvo Sotelo , one of the spokesmen for the parliamentary opposition to the Government that emerged from the victory of the Popular Front , was assassinated in February of the same year. Five days later, the "National Uprising" took place, which wanted to put an end to a regime that its defenders tried to identify with intelligence and reason, beauty as well. Thus, Manuel Azaña, defining himself as a patriot, pointed out: "[Republican] patriotism is not a code of precepts, but a disposition of mind [that] ignites in us desire and gives us the energy to sacrifice ourselves for the patri

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