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In February 1981, just like Spain was finally giving Franco's dictatorship and through the first democratic vote in parliament for a fresh perfect minister - Colonel Tejero and a music group of right-wing military burst into the Spanish parliament and started out firing images. Only three users of Congress defied the incursion and did not dive for cover: Adolfo Suarez, the then-outgoing perfect minister, who possessed steered the united states away from the Franco time; Guttierez Mellado, a traditional general who possessed loyally served democracy; and Santiago Carillo, the head of the Communist Party, which possessed just been legalized. In The Anatomy of a Moment, Cercas examines a key point in time in Spanish record, just like he have so effectively in his Spanish Civil War novel, Soldiers of Salamis. This is the only coup ever before to get been caught on film as it was occurring, which, as Cercas says, "guaranteed both its fact and its unreality". Every February a few seconds of the training video are shown again and Spaniards congratulate themselves for standing up for democracy, but Cercas says that things were very calm that afternoon and evening while all over Spain people stayed inside waiting for the coup to be defeated ...or even to triumph.

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