Abstract
Two weeks after Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union and a week after General Francisco Franco's foreign policy shift from non-belligerency to “moral belligerency” in June 1941, propaganda was emitted from Madrid concerning the Spanish children evacuated to Russia and the Ukraine during the Spanish Civil War. The 1941 reports, put out to persuade public opinion that hostility toward the Soviet Union was a logical continuation of Franco's anticommunist “crusade” of 1936–1939, claimed that there were 6,000 Spanish children in the Soviet Union. In fact, a total of some 3,000 child evacuees from Spain had disembarked at the ports of Yalta and Leningrad between March 1937 and October 1938. The propaganda also claimed that many of them were the orphans of parents killed by “the Reds” during Spain's war, whereas, in fact, they were the children of supporters of the Spanish Republic, who, as Verónica Sierra Blas's book explains, were sent to the Soviet Union out of ideological commitment and fear of aerial bombardment, as well as a profound apprehension about the consequences of a Francoist victory.
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