Homage to Catalonia and The Spanish Civil War

The History of Europe from 1715 ^ | November, 1988 | Andrew Weiss

[Sparta]

If only people would open their damn eyes and compare and contrast Chile with Argentina or Spain with Yugoslavia.

Funny thing you mention the former Yugoslavia. The Croatian leader during Croatia's War of Independence, Tudjman, reminds me of Franco and Pinochet. He killed off the Serbian communists and for a while fought the Al-Qaeda Muslim forces in Bosnia, until Bubba Clinton threatened to bomb Croatian forces unless they joined forces with the Muslims against the Serbs. He also laid the foundations for a free market economy in Croatia, which has been undone by the current left-leaning Croatian government.

[MattinNJ]

Thanks. I will put it on my list of must reads.

[oyez]

bfl.

[HISSKGB]

These accounts of Orwell's make for a very good read. Ronald Radosh, in his story of being a former Red, compliments this.

It was a time of the communists eating their own. There was a split between the Leninists and the Trotskyites. Franco won because Stalin had ordered a purge in Spain of the P.O.U.M. which was the Partido Obero de Unificacion Marxista whom he believed were influenced by Trotsky.

At the same time, 1937, thousands were massing in NYC to hear the protests of Trotsky against the Stalinists/Leninists. Because of the sickening purges in Spain, Moscow and elsewhere, Whitaker Chambers saw the light and finally defected in 1939.

Radosh has published a second book filled with documents relating to these communist crimes in Spain. His uncle was a Trotskyite who left the US to fight in that mess.

[MattinNJ]

Tudjman sounds like a great man. I'm going to do some research on him-thanks for the heads up.

[DPB101]

Eleanor Roosevelt was, of course, a vocal supporter of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.

[HISSKGB]

Eleanor Roosevelt was very effective in her support of left-wing commie causes. She, as others did, pretended to care for the downtrodden while at the same time aligned herself with Margaret Sanger to further the cause of involuntary sterilizations of blacks,etc.