Sunday, July 11, 2010

Spanish bombs

I was in a bar in Dublin with people talking about their grand dads and great uncles in the International Brigade in Spain, a couple of weeks back. A socialist government was democratically elected in Spain so the right mounted a coup, the left fought back but were defeated. This helped pave the way for world war two and there was a similar scenario in Chile in 1973 when Allende was kicked out

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