Anita Carrillo 1898-1974 #SpanishCivilWar#communist Captain in Republican Army. Fought alongside husband on Front Line. Heard erroneously he had died disguised self as eccentric Englishwoman to retrieve body, found him alive. 1937 injured but survived Desbandá Málaga–Almería road massacre of 1000s refugees by Francoist troops. 1938 arrested by Franco government, 1939 exiled in Tangiers. 1954 arrested #Morocco imprisoned a yr on Spanish mainland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Carrillo_Dom%C3%ADnguez@histodons@CarveHerName
“Mass #propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in #cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.”
― Hannah Arendt, "The Origins of Totalitarianism" #quotes#mediaStudies#commOdon#truth#agnotology#history