Homenaje a Las Brigadade Internacionales
Whilst some get all misty eyed at the mention of the International Brigades…
but your humble correspondent tends to think Marxists, Leninists, Trotskyites … just about every shade of Communist you care to mention. Clearly the so-called British Battalion still has its supporters here in San Francisco
Comments
Shouldn't they all be about 107 years of age?
Posted by: MP | March 31, 2008 5:52 PM
Hmmmm...Can't quite tell what kind of rifles they are armed with...any ideas?
Posted by: Joseph | March 31, 2008 6:27 PM
Shoot them. All of them.
Posted by: Kim du Toit | March 31, 2008 7:28 PM
Is that Michael Foot holding the flag in the B&W pic? Wouldn't surprise me if it was.
Posted by: Kim du Toit | March 31, 2008 7:29 PM
Get out of that city...all sorts of stuff is contagious...check your clothing...notice any shades of pink?
Posted by: thud | March 31, 2008 7:42 PM
It's instructive to note that while Hitler and Mussolini are mentioned as being in Franco's corner, there is total silence regarding the role Stalin and the Soviet Union played in supporting the Republicans. Some of the comments appended to the article are quite defensive about this relationship when challenged by other readers. How typical of San Francisco.
Posted by: MP | April 1, 2008 7:36 PM
I met Denis Hills a few years back at a Spectator garden party. A charming chap, he had fought for Franco in the Civil War, not because he was a Fascist, but because he hated Communists. He did not suffer fools, and years later Idi Amin sentenced him to death for speaking the truth about the odious murdering bastard.Sunny Jim Callaghan had to go to Uganda and beg for his life, instead of having Amin rubbed out.
The rifles look to be Spanish Mausers, which were as good as rifles got in 1936.
Posted by: John K | April 2, 2008 2:46 PM
Exactly! while Hitler and Mussolini are mentioned as being in Franco's corner, there is total silence regarding the role Stalin and the Soviet Union played in supporting the Republicans.
Hitler sent 6000 soldiers. Mussolini Sent 9000.
Stalin, 35(therty five thosand)regular soldiers!!!
Fortunatly, Franco win the war. If not, Spain would be another sovietic satelit and would anexed Portugal too!
Posted by: pizarro | May 24, 2008 12:58 PM
Very brave men, suck it, Kim du Toit for suggesting that men who fought against Fascism should be shot. Communism is better than capitalism or fascism by a long, long shot.
Posted by: mr. r | May 29, 2009 10:54 PM
Pizarro, please stick to the facts. 14,000 veterans attended the Condor Legion parade in Berlin in 1939. The Italian CTV ground troops consisted of 5 Infantry Divisions and including the Aviazione Legionaria numbered 40-50,000 men at any one time. Stalin sent 2,000: 772 airmen, 77 navy specialists, 100 artillery specialists, 351 Tank men, 204 interpreters, 156 radio operators, 222 army advisors and instructors, 130 aircraft factory workers and 52 other specialists.
Posted by: Aristonicus | June 13, 2009 3:57 PM