The son of novelist George Orwell is demanding that the Spanish government resume the restoration of Spanish Civil War trenches, where his father fought with republicans against General Franco's nationalist forces.
Speaking on a recent trip to Zaragoza, Richard Blair, 71, said that it was up to the Spanish government to keep his father's fighting spirit alive.
Orwell, born Eric Arthur Blair, almost died when he was shot in the neck by a sniper during the fighting. He would later write the book Homage to Catalonia about his time fighting for the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification.
Orwell would later go on to write literary classics such as Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm following his return from the war.
Restoration had taken place in the trenches under the previous regime of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, but it was halted when the People's Party took control of the Aragonese Corts, the regional government for the autonomous community of Aragon, in 2011.
Mr. Blair, who was six when his father died in 1950, said: "I think the Spanish people deserve to understand what really happened between the 1930s to the death of Franco in 1975."
