Spanish children visiting Stalin: how they were evacuated, and then sent to the Gulag
In 1937-1938, 34 thousand children and adolescents aged 5 to 15 years were taken out of the Spanish Civil War. They were sent to France, Belgium, Great Britain, Switzerland, Mexico, Denmark and the USSR. About three thousand evacuated were in the Soviet Union, from where they did not let them out for many years - even after propaganda has already stopped using the image of the rescued children of Spain, and the children themselves grew up.