And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Monday, May 18, 2020
The Original Che
Socialist activist Marina Ginestà, aged 17, overlooking Barcelona from Colon Hotel during Spanish Civil War, ca.1936 - After this photo she became a symbol of resistance against fascist regime.
Fall of 2017 Mrs. and I spent most of two weeks in Spain, including several days in Barcelona. I signed up for a walking tour of the CW sites lead by a history professor whose grandparents were active participants in the unpleasantness. Fortunately, I was the only one to show up for it but he decided to run it anyway, and it was fascinating. When he realized I was genuinely interested, he stretched the hour and a half tour into three and if Mrs. hadn't already made plans for the afternoon, I'd have gone along for the afternoon tour as well. Maybe the best $40 I've ever spent. But sobering stuff. Some really bad things went on in the Spanish CW.
Wasn't she executed?
ReplyDeleteNah, good socialist warrior, she died, aged 95 in Paris (2014).
ReplyDeleteI wonder if she was a Communist "comfort woman" for members of the Lincoln Brigade.
ReplyDeleteIsn't "Sharing everything" supposed to part of socialism?
DeleteFall of 2017 Mrs. and I spent most of two weeks in Spain, including several days in Barcelona. I signed up for a walking tour of the CW sites lead by a history professor whose grandparents were active participants in the unpleasantness. Fortunately, I was the only one to show up for it but he decided to run it anyway, and it was fascinating. When he realized I was genuinely interested, he stretched the hour and a half tour into three and if Mrs. hadn't already made plans for the afternoon, I'd have gone along for the afternoon tour as well. Maybe the best $40 I've ever spent. But sobering stuff. Some really bad things went on in the Spanish CW.
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Read Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia."
DeleteShe's carrying a Spanish "Destroyer" carbine in 9mm Largo in that picture.
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