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The First Days of the Spanish Civil War, Part 2

It Could Happen Here

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A French Athlete in the Right Wing Snipers

Charlie burly is a mixed race kid who grew up in pittsburgh. He refused to go to the 1936 olympics because he doesn't want any of Hitler's bullshit And he doesn't speak Spanish. So all he'd need all he knows how to do It's pick up a crowbar start levering up paving stones and helping to build a barricade. These barricades he built like I said They were so strong that they would stop light artillery Across the city whipped and snaps of bullets cracked across the wide boulevard That cut through the regimented grid as the example. Snipers were stationed in the bell towers of churches And they picked off the newly formed people's militia.

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