🇪🇸 October 9, 1934, Asturias, Spain: The eight brothers from the Christian Schools of Turón, along with a Passionist priest, were brutally murdered by communist militiamen
This happened during the communistic october revolution in Asturias, in 1934, by a self-proclaimed "red army" armed by the UGT trade union (owned by the Spanish Socialist Workers Party, PSOE)
That night of October, the eight brothers from the Christian Schools of Turón, along with a Passionist priest, were brutally murdered by socialist militiamen—the Martyrs of Turón.
Earlier, the socialist militiamen had dug the mass graves where they were to be shot.
One by one, they fell into the grave under the indiscriminate gunfire of the militiamen.
A few days earlier, on the night of October 5, the militiamen had gone to their homes to take them to the town’s Socialist People’s House.
There they were held captive and abused for several days, along with other clergymen and people whom the militiamen presumed to be “right-wing,” including the distinguished Asturian engineer Rafael Riego, who was also brutally murdered days later.
Clergymen, Civil Guard officers, and people who, merely on suspicion of having right-wing leanings, would become the scapegoats of brutal persecutions and murders in a coup that, in just two weeks, would claim the lives of nearly 1,500 Spaniards.
That same day, Indalecio Prieto’s son and other Socialist leaders involved in the coup were arrested. Prieto’s son put up a fight, as the newspaper clipping illustrates.
Not so his father, Indalecio, who—like other Socialist instigators of the coup—had fled in a hurry, leaving behind those who carried out the orders of the PSOE leaders.
In Prieto’s case, he would take up residence in a luxurious Parisian hotel.
Largo Caballero was not found at his home either; his family would acknowledge that he had not been there since the coup began.
La agitación y la convulsión que vivió España aquellos días no era más que la antesala de lo que habría de suceder unos meses después, en la terrible guerra.
In the socialist people's houses, hundreds of weapon caches were found, innocents were tortured and murdered; however, just a few weeks later, many of them were opened by the republican authorities, giving free rein to the reopening of the revolutionary initiative, never fully closed.
May this thread serve to pay a well-deserved tribute to all the innocent victims of that misnamed "Asturias Revolution," a coup attempt that caused deaths and injuries in 26 provinces—that is, half the national territory—and which is not covered by the current Memory Law, drafted by the same party responsible for this entire tragedy.