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NYC Exhibit on Spanish Civil War


M. Porcius Cato

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Great review in the NY Times. I don't know what is more disheartening: (1) how violently totalitarian Communists--like the lackeys of Stalin--celebrate their resistance to local authoritarian fascists--like the thugs of Franco, or (2) how naively Western liberals buy into #1.

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Is the verb in #2 Past Historic or Present tense?

 

In the case of the exhibit, present tense; in the case of the NYT, past historic. Since Orwell and Hemingway, most Western liberals woke up to the nature of Soviet involvement in the Spanish Civil War; however, as the NYT piece makes clear, not all have.

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I suppose that I would always have to pick Franco in any worse case scenario.

 

Don't pick Franco. It's been said that choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

 

-- Nephele

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I suppose that I would always have to pick Franco in any worse case scenario.

Don't pick Franco. It's been said that choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

Indeed. You should see "Pan's Labyrinth," FVC. It's biased on the other side, but it's clear that the fascists were rotten bastards.

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