The Death of the Leftists in the Spanish Civil War

Orwell was fighting for the socialist side in the Spanish Civil War. There were many, many different sub factions that made up his side. And what eventually causes him to leave the war is that those factions turn on each other. The socialists begin infighting and there's literally like a civil war on just the side of the socialists in the Civil War. They get acronym like Whiplash from how many different socialist groups there are.

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