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Article: LINCOLN BRIGADE FIGHTERS WERE COMMUNISTS OR DUPES.(OPINION)(Letter to the Editor)
- Article from:
- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- June 8, 2002
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Regarding the Memorial Day services honoring members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade who fought in the Spanish Civil War:
There is no honor where the Abraham Lincoln Brigade of the International Brigades is concerned.
In the Spanish Civil war of the 1930s the International Brigades were simply a military arm of the Communist International (Comintern). The Comintern functioned as a second foreign ministry of the Soviet Union, with its sole purpose of establishing world communism.
The Abraham Lincoln Brigade was organized, funded and led by the Comintern. These were the same leaders who just prior to the Spanish Civil War had murdered 14 million ...