Why did Spanish sculptor Alberto Sanchez leave for the USSR

Visitors to Madrid's Queen Sofia Museum pass by a majestic sculpture at the entrance - 'The Way of the Spanish People Leading to the Star'. Its author, Alberto Sanchez, decided to go to the Soviet Union in 1938 and ended up staying there until the end of his life.

Alberto Sanchez's life is like an adventure novel. He was born in Toledo, Spain, in 1895 and, from childhood, he worked daily - first, in a bakery, the