Ignacio Gallego Bezares was a Spanish

Spain

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 communist

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 politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain

Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain

Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain is a communist political party in Spain. PCPE was founded out of the unification of several Marxist-Leninist factions. The youth organization is called the Collectives of Communist Youth.On December 13–15 of 1984 a "Communist Unity Congress" was held...

 (PCPE).

Biography

Born in Siles, Jaén Province, Spain, Gallego fought on the Republican

Second Spanish Republic

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 side in the Spanish Civil War

Spanish Civil War

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. When Francisco Franco

Francisco Franco

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 won, Gallego fled and was put in a refugee camp in then French

France

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-ruled Algeria

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. Later, he made his way to the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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, where he lived until 1945.

Gallego secretly returned to Spain in 1976 and made his first public appearance in the country on the day the PCE was legalised (25 April 1977). He lived in Madrid

Madrid

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 and was elected to the Congress of Deputies

Spanish Congress of Deputies

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 for the district of Cordoba

Córdoba (Spanish Congress Electoral District)

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 in the general elections of 1977

Spanish general election, 1977

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 and 1979

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.

Gallego formed the Marxist-Leninist

Marxism-Leninism

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 and pro-Soviet Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain

Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain

Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain is a communist political party in Spain. PCPE was founded out of the unification of several Marxist-Leninist factions. The youth organization is called the Collectives of Communist Youth.On December 13–15 of 1984 a "Communist Unity Congress" was held...

 after the mainstream PCE fragmented in the wake of an electoral rout in 1982.

He died in Madrid. The writer Rubén Gallego

Ruben Gallego

Rubén David González Gallego was born in Moscow, Russia, with severe cerebral palsy.Gallego was separated from his family at the age of one; he was sent to a state orphanage, because his grandfather, Ignacio Gallego, who was Secretary-General of the Spanish Communist Party, was ashamed of him and...

is his grandson.