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Behind the Insurrections - How Fascism Won The Spanish Civil War, Part 2

Behind the Bastards

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The First Foreigners to Volunteer to Fight in Spain

Two of the first foreigners to volunteer to fight in spain were a 21 year classics graduate from cambridge named bernard knox and his friend, john cornford. They took with them an old pistol that had belonged to john cornforne's weird name. Eventually, something close to forty thousand people will wind up volunteering to fight inspain. There's a lot of these are the people who recognize what is a timeless truth, which is that a fasism and authoritarianism in one part of the world is a threat to freedom everywhere in the world.

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