[lbo-talk] Spanish Civil War

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That is correct. The IBs were Communist. Orwell was a
staunch anti-Communist. Read Homage to Catalonia -- a
very good book, though biased. Hemingway's ForWhomThe
Bell Tolls is a somewhat inferior pro-Communist
counterpoint,

--- Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote:


> 
> 
> On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 06:17:40 -0700 John Norem
> <jnorem at cox.net> writes:
> > 
> >   Spain prepares to lay bare its darkest era
> > 
> > 
> >       By Graham Keeley in Barcelona
> > 
> > 
> >         Published: 14 July 2006
> > 
> >
> > The historian Enrique Moradiellos told the Spanish
> daily El Pais: 
> > "What 
> > we want to see are the files of Marshall
> Voroshilov on Operation X, 
> > the 
> > Soviet plan to aid the Republic. If you want to
> know about Russia's 
> > influence, you have to go there." The Russian
> archives also contain 
> > information about the International Brigades,
> which included British 
> > 
> > volunteers such as George Orwell and detailed
> accounts of the 
> > defence of 
> > Madrid.
> > 
> 
> It is my understanding that Orwell did not join the
> International
> Brigades
> but rather directly joined P.O.U.M.'s milita in
> Spain.
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