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@djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone

Post #1790656

2026-04-29 14:59 UTC

The guy fought Nazi supplied Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War. This take is nuts, he almost died for the CNT-FAI. He’s not a Nazi sympathizer.

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  • @Riverside@reddthat.com 2026-04-30 06:57

    And went on to literally work for the British intelligence services and provide them lists of communists, you could read the provided sources. Just a thought experiment: since you apply this logic that fighting the Nazi-supplied nationalists in the Spanish civil war makes one an antifascist, do you agree that the greatest antifascist force in Europe was the USSR as the only country supplying weapons, munitions, tanks and airplanes to the Republican and Anarchist during the civil war?

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  • @Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.ml 2026-04-30 08:57

    Everything we know about Orwell disagrees, from his review of Mein Kampf to his comments about Jews and Homosexuals. He opposed fighting the literal German Nazis until war actually broke out. The civil was was a few years and a single book, and hardly representative of his entire life.

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