Talk:Buenaventura Durruti

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[edit] Death

According to Anthony Beever, the sniper story really is a myth: "The cocking handle of a companion's machine pistol caught on a car door, firing ino his chest."radek 01:11, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

This is almost certainly also a myth. The truth will, sadly, never be known. Abel Paz' book has a complete overview of all the different theories, and that's his conclusion. Worth the read if you can stomach a lot of ideological cant... of a different (namely, old style anarchist) school than usual. 79.233.50.96 (talk) 16:04, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

I have read that Durriti was killed for political reasons by the Communists...but I have only one source for this (Arnaud Imatz). Are there others? 99.240.142.65 (talk) 22:58, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Funeral

Does anybody have any sources on his funeral procession being "the last large-scale public demonstration of anarchist strength"? Orwell mentions, "A short time earlier [than 1 May 1937] a C.N.T. member had been murdered, and the C.N.T. had turned out in hundreds of thousands to follow the cortege." ([1]) I'm not sure when Durruti's funeral was, but it seems like a short time earlier than 1 May would put the body of someone that died on 20 November in pretty bad shape... Washod (talk) 15:24, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Hugh Thomas' seminal work, The Spanish Civil War (around page 416) is I believe the source for this description of the funeral as the 'last large-scale..." - I'll have to check to be sure. The funeral was on 23 November and was attended by more than a half-million people. There is documentary footage of the funeral, narrated appparently by Emma Goldman. Zerodeconduite (talk) 21:32, 3 June 2009 (UTC)