The historical memory (with affection)

There have been located and identified the remains of several republicans shot in Malaga. His remains have been dedicated to his relatives in an exciting act in the Cultural club of Madrid. And I have remembered Alfonso Ussía. He is an intelligent personage, with humor and clearly of rights. He writes in “The Reason”. And he always remembers his grandfather, writer Muñoz Seca, who was shot in Paracuellos del Jarama (Madrid). I suppose that it is a bravery, but I would like debating with Alfonso Ussía on that thing about the historical memory.

When Alfonso Ussía or I land in the Cards airport we see to our right (in south configuration) an enormous white cross identical with the soil with the nearby hillocks. They have told me that it is the imperishable memory of the shot ones in Paracuellos del Jarama during the civil war. They were of rights.

When Alfonso Ussía or I land in the airport of Malaga we see nothing especially showy neither to rights nor to lefts. But it turns out that there is a common grave of shot with more than 2.000 remains. They were of lefts.

The pain is equal for all, but the political analysis of the dead persons is not equal.

The whole tremendous debate that departs from a few ideas and ends with a few rifles, has in Spain three different moments.

1st The Republic. I accept that he excited and frustrated to some. I accept that there were bullets of a side and of other. But there was a democratic Justice and an effort to achieve coexistence and freedom. A few military men closed the door.

2nd The civil war. Here it is possible to think what should love because an entire war is a war without limits. Swiss limits can be remembered, but the barbarism of the war has been it is and it will be difficult to channel. Each of the edicts has heroic situations and moments of shame.

3rd The postwar period. In this time, only there is a culprit of the pain: the pro-Franco dictatorship. Alfonso Ussía is right in remembering that they left his grandfather without life for his ideas. Franco's diet recognized it and we still remember it on having landed in Cards. Pero Alfonso Ussía (who is a gentleman) should admit that if he is lucky to be able to honor his grandfather, there are others that (for example in Malaga) wanted to do the same. They were not famous grandparents, but they were grandparents.

Whenever the historical memory criticizes that thing about, more I realize that there is the right the one that he does not want to remember. It is a sorrow. That not, that it is not a question of any discrimination strategy. That not. That Alfonso Ussía is not going to convince me in his ideas, but he can convince me in his pain.

Alfonso Ussía has to write one day in The Reason that understands that defeated in the civil war they should want to find his dead persons.

And this day we will begin understanding that that thing about the historical memory does not go with living but with dead persons.