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Article: The myth of "premature antifascism".(Americans fighting in the Spanish Civil War)
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- New Criterion
- Article date:
- September 1, 2002
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In 1984, George Orwell gave the Ministry of Truth the task of rewriting history. Under the slogan "who controls the past controls the future," an army of scribes modified documents, changed textbooks, and rewrote old newspapers to ensure that history conformed to every shift of the ruling party's political line. Left-wing American historians have likewise been busily engaged in altering the past to buttress their conviction that Communists are the real heroes of modern history. Of all the historical myths promoted by the American left, few have been more fiercely protected than those about the Spanish Civil War, lionized as "the Good Fight," a heroic struggle between ...