Contrary to what Mr. Loach's film would have you believe, the vast majority of those in the International Brigades were afiliated with their respective Communist Parties, and thus bad old Stalinists. The FAI and the POUM, with their insistence and burning churches, raping nuns, and being oh-so-rrrevolutionary COST Republican Spain the Civil War and aided Franco's fascist victory.
shareThe simple fact is the forces for Republican Spain (the FAI Anarchists, the POUM Marxists, and all the other militias, parties and groups) were not united enough in any way other than in their opposition to the Fascists. The Fascists on the other hand were united under one military leadership. This is the real lesson to be learned.
shareTrue. The Communists with all their different little cells, each wanting to be top dog. They lost the war with their infighting while the Nationalists came together as a united front against Bolshevism and won. That said, this film is so blatantly pro Communist, it made me sick. Watching that girl in modern day Spain clench her fist over that old man's grave was disgusting. Can we not get a fair and balanced film about this war?
shareThe purification squads were directed by the Jew Rosenberg (Moses Israelsohn) with his staff of 140 members to the office of Ambassador to Spain as from August of 1936. The purification squads aim was the destruction of Christianity.
The Rosenberg murder teams were called "World Revolutionary Movement Purification Squads."
Madrid officials estimate that one tenth of the population of Spain was murdered by the communist Jews by 1939.
Amazing how idiotic left wingers lionise the non Spanish natives who travelled to Spain to join their communist heroes. The same crew who deny the mass genocidal murder of the holodomor.