Des médailles et leurs revers. Des anciens d’Espagne devenus « héros des peuples de Yougoslavie »

About the few Yugoslavs involved in the Spanish Civil War and granted the title “People’s Hero of Yugoslavia”.Among the few 1900 Yugoslavs involved in the Republican side during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), 64 were granted the title “People’s Hero of Yugoslavia”, the most prestigious of Tito’s Yugoslavia. All Communist Party militants on their return home after fighting in Spain and the French internment camps, they play a key role in the partisan army led by Josip Broz Tito in 1941. After 1945, the 34 “Spaniards” who died during World War II are crowned with glory and the 30 survivors, now living legends, occupy key positions in the military, diplomacy, government and the Party. But behind the myth, some aspects which remained taboo for long still exist. Thanks to the available archives in Belgrade and Moscow, we can now trace the actual routes of the militants, with their weaknesses, their doubts, their disagreements