(ANSAmed) - MADRID, APRIL 26 - Spain is commemorating the bombing of Guernica, one of the most dramatic episodes of the civil war in the 1930s, exactly 85 years after the tragedy. As recalled in a video posted on social media by Premier Pedro Sánchez, on April 26, 1937, military aircraft sent by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, which backed the front of General Francisco Franco against the ruling republican government, bombed the Basque site, killing dozens of civilians.
    "Eighty-five years later, we remember this day and all its victims. Because memory is essential to continue to constitute a democratic and peaceful society", wrote Sánchez.
    At the beginning of April, the historic episode - represented in a famous painting by Pablo Picasso - was remembered also by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a speech in video conference to the Spanish Parliament. "We are in April 2022, but it looks like April 1937", he said, referring to the reported massacres of civilians which the Russians are accused of perpetrating in Ukraine.(ANSAmed).