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rasputin1952 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-03-09 08:03 AM
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I was glancing through The Nation this AM, and this tiny piece...
speaks volumes of just where we are and where we could be heading. Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat the same failure.


FRANCO'S FOE: Clarence Kailin, who died on October 25 at 95 in his hometown of Madison, Wisconsin, was one of the last of the remarkable American radicals who fought "the good fight" against Spanish fascism as a member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Kailin lived long enough to hear blowhards like Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck conflate socialism and fascism in their attacks on President Obama. Kailin, a lifelong socialist, recalled earlier this year, "I'm old enough to remember when Hitler, Mussolini and Franco were on the rise. When no one else would take on the fascists, when the conservatives were talking about what a great guy Franco was, we socialists went to Spain to try and stop him." JOHN NICHOLS

The Nation





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Alcibiades Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-03-09 08:16 AM
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1. The US rehabilitated Franco in the 1950's
Following the Pact of Madrid in 1953. Right after he got back from Korea, my grandfather was stationed there then to train Franco's troops. A little ironic for him, because he was an anti-fascist.
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rasputin1952 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-03-09 08:24 AM
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2. I can see the irony...
Franco is an interesting character, noy good in my book, but interesting. He essentially kept Spain out of WWII, but allowed Hitler to to "test" Blitzkreig.

The first love of my life lived on the Upper East Side NYC. Her father was a Spaniard who fought against Franco, he emigrated here after the fracas, wounded, he was in an ambulance driven by Ernest Hemingway.
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ensho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-03-09 11:07 AM
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3. kick
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