And American soldiers were the victims of these things in Spain, American volunteers. So this war was really a testing ground for Hitler.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDSo 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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How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly and [John] Wordsworth
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All over Budapest, statues have been replaced, museum exhibits have been redone, to turn ethnic Hungarians, not Jews, into the prime victims of the Germans during World War II.
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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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I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.
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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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Compared with how we’ve ducked it in the United States, Canada should be really proud of how you have welcomed a significant number of refugees – far more, in fact, than we Americans have, even though our population is vastly larger.
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The late Nadine Gordimer in South Africa, for example, had a wonderful ability to get her country’s injustices and contradictions down on paper.
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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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All of us living in today’s world are facing an enormous crisis – arguably the greatest that humanity has ever faced
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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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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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To bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today’s globe.
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In the form of man-made global warming; one can’t be neutral at such a moment. It’s like claiming to be neutral if you’re living in Germany in 1933.
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Its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget.
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Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
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