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Article: The Gallant Cause: Canadians and the Spanish Civil War: 1936-1939.
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- Canadian Dimension
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- May 1, 1997
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Reviewed by Fraser Bell
The iconography of the Spanish Civil War is unmistakable; La Pasionaria exhorting the cheering crowds on the Gran via; the clenched fist salutes of the Popular Front; the banners along the Ramblas: Commune de Paris; Dimitrov; Thaelmann...; Spanish militia women in patterned dresses in high heels holding rifles over their heads; the party slogans on the sides of trucks and buses: FAI, CNT, POUM, PSUC.
No modern war has aroused such passion and been so quickly forgotten. Overnight, it seems, the volunteers who had fought in Spain became non-persons. Realpolitik finally overtook them. They became "dead men on furlough." Stalin had the ...