Alexei: Russian with Spanish Roots (2)

I asked Alexei, the brutual death metal musician, if he was from Moscow. He said yes, but that he wasn’t 100% Russian. I expected him to say Ukrainuan, Bulgarian or some other East European background. He said he was part Spanish and that thise roots go back to his great grandparents, communists who first fought Franco in the 1930s before coming to the Soviet Union to fight Nazi Germany.