Un amigo en el infierno

The odyssey of a group of republicans through the Europe of totalitarianism. May 1945. The Red Army is at the gates of Berlin. Chaos reigns in the heart of Germany. At that very moment, thirty-five Spanish Republicans, installed on German soil after being transferred as workers by the Vichy regime, stormed the Francoist embassy that the diplomats had abandoned to their fate, and raised the Republican flag for the last time in Spanish territory. . However, the Soviets, by unknown orders, do not hesitate to arrest them and send them to the USSR as prisoners. It will be in the Gulag, thousands of kilometers from their country, where they meet other Spaniards, members of the Blue Division, who had fought on the Russian front alongside the Nazis. Alfredo Morales, protagonist of this magnificent story, represents all those men and women who suffered the Europe of totalitarianism. Men and women who went into exile after the Civil War, lived in subhuman conditions in French concentration camps, crossed a continent at war and ended up imprisoned in the terrible Russian Gulag, where Republicans and Phalangists, Reds and Blues, were forced to understand each other. to overcome cold, hunger and death. A story based on true events, which speaks of brotherhood, solidarity and forgiveness between brothers to survive barbarism.