Daily LIFT #521

Fidel Castro in conversation with Spanish Communist hero Dolores Ibárruri in her Moscow apartment, USSR 1963 -- Daily LIFT #521

Ibárruri -- also know as La Pasionaria -- was in exile from Franco's fascist regime in Spain. She had been the General Secretary of the Communist party of Spain until 1960 when she retired to become its President. She would return to Spain in 1977 and be elected as a deputy to the Spanish parliament.