Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
ADAM HOCHSCHILD
Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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The Messerschmitt 109 fighter plane for example, the Stuka dive bomber, the 88 millimeter artillery piece, which could be used both for antiaircraft purposes and also shelling on the ground.
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After all, where else in the world at this point did you have Americans in uniform who were being bombed by Nazi planes four years before the U.S. entered World War II?
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Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.
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And tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others’ lives.
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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One of my favourite contemporary fiction writers is a Texan, Ben Fountain. His extraordinary novel, Billy Lynn’s Long Half-Time Walk, all takes place within the half-time show at a Dallas Cowboys football game.
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You’ve got politicians in power or vying for power who are taking tactics and elements of their appeal from the playbook of fascism.
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I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.
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And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is an example of this trend.
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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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So people at the time really saw fascism not just as an evil but as an aggressive evil that seemed to be spreading.
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Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain
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