Contribuţia idealismului românesc la Războiul Civil Spaniol

The exaltation for the recovery of folklore and mystique as ideals of the Romanian legionnaires has found a prolific space in Franco’s Spain, as the Spanish Civil War captures the legionnaires’ interest. Some of them decided to take part in a war that was not theirs, for they considered they needed to defend a series of common ideals, like the national cause and the values of Christian culture. On November 24, 1936, a small team of six brave legionnaires left for Spain. None of them spoke Spanish, nor did they have a proper military training. As a consequence of their idealism, two of them die on the foreign ground they defended like it was their own. The moment of the death of the two Romanian heroes turned into a source of inspiration both for the Spanish and Romanian writers, such as José María Castroviejo, Agustín de Foxá or Mircea Eliade.