Buenaventura Durruti

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Durruti in 1936

José Buenaventura Durruti Dumange (14 July 1896 – 20 November 1936) was a Spanish anarchist leader. He was born in the town of León. Durruti was a central figure of Spanish anarchism during the country's civil war of 1936-1939. He fought against fascism.

He robbed banks to use the money to help his friends escape prison. It is believed that he killed the bishop Juan Soldevilla. Some anarchists believed Soldevilla helped people who murdered people in labor unions.

He died in Madrid when he was killed by a person using a gun during the Spanish Civil War.

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  Durruti (centre-back) with his colleagues at the workshop of Antonio Mijé

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  Durruti (left) during his exile in Occitania

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  King Alfonso XIII, who Durruti and Los Justicieros attempted to assassinate in 1920

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  CNT leader Salvador Seguí, whose assassination triggered the outbreak of open conflict between anarchists and the pistoleros

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  Durruti after his arrest in Madrid in 1923

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  Alfonso XIII (left) and Miguel Primo de Rivera (right), the two leading figures of the dictatorship in Spain

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  Durruti (bottom) with other members of Los Errantes in Mexico

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  Durruti (centre), with Francisco Ascaso (left) and Gregorio Jover (right), after their release from prison in 1927

• Nestor Makhno, the Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary who met with Ascaso and Durruti after their release from prison

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  Ascaso and Durruti (far-right) at the Poble Espanyol, with other Spanish and French anarchists