Some years ago, a British miniseries--from BBC?--presented the story according to, I presume, the Hugh Thomas book. I wish I had it with me, because, as far as I can remember, it tried very hard to fill in the details that often go unmentioned.
My cousin, Jose Enrique Cabiya, told me what he thinks is the reason why the Left is so proud of its defeat in Spain: because it cannot feel proud of its victories elsewhere. Certainly its defeat in this war was more honourable than its victories in Russia, Poland, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Albania, plus non-European countries such as Ethiopia and Cambodia.
That was way back in 1976, long before the glorious events of 1989 and afterwards that proved beyond any doubt that the popular democracies never had any real popular support. One proof of this is in the coats of arms of those countries: Russia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro and Albania all restored their precommunist coats of arms, including in several cases the crowns of their monarchs, not because there were any monarchical restorations, but rather because those arms and those crowns were their REAL GENUINE NATIONAL SYMBOLS.
God is subtle, but He is not malicious. (Albert Einstein)
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