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IÑAKI GIL
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Updated Friday, 28May2021-01: 43
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On a day like today 150 years ago the revolution of the Commune ended.
It ended up in a butcher shop known as Bloody Week.
In the fighting there were about
five thousand dead.
The retreating comuneros executed a hundred hostages, including the Archbishop of Paris.
The winners even shot with a machine gun.
It all ended here, on a wall of the
Père Lachaise
cemetery
, a
cemetery for the illustrious deceased, in front of this Wall of the Federated States, today sunny and lonely.
Then wall before which
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