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

Behind the Bastards

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I Want to Be Like a Laborer, Right?

The invasion of madrid was the first terrible battle of the civil war. International brigades turned back the facists at a place called university city, which is like a college campus. They built barricades out of books in order to stop facist bullets. Cornford squad operated a machine gun nest in the philosophy faculty offices of the university city campus. The guardian note, enemy bullets gave up before reaching page three 50, making them believe all tales of soldiers saved by bibles in their breast pockets.

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