<HTML>: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">One Abraham Lincoln Brigade vet here says near as they can tell about 60% of the U.S. volunteers were members of the CPUSA.  The International Brigades as a whole, of course, came from all over, including Latin America and Europe, and included a lot of people who had dealt with fascism first hand (the Italian and German brigades most prominently).  I suppose you could say that they were 'Stalinist' in the same sense that Russians who fought the Germans to a standstill a few years later were 'Stalinist.'  Not sure why you'd want to use the term there, though. Jenny Brown ^^^^^^ CB: Perhaps the term popped out as an unconscious exhibition of the cunning of reason or the dialectics of truth.</BLOCKQUOTE> </HTML>