“The expedition occupies a large old mansion. The rooms are a bit dirty. On stylish chests of drawers, on unheated fireplaces, large, metal, tin-like jars of blood are piled up. Here it is collected from donors and distributed to hospitals and front-line hospitals.” This is how the famous Soviet journalist Mikhail Koltsov, brother of the equally famous cartoonist Bor in subsequent years, describes the situation of the civil war in Spain. Efimova. It was a terrible catastrophe, the consequences of which Spain experienced for many decades. The author's story was also tragic. After returning from that distant and so close war, he was repressed and executed, but his unimaginable truth about what he saw remained forever in the hearts of our people.