Spanish practices

Over at ConHome, Arty McBain serves up a coruscating history of the Spanish Civil War. He is quite rightly outraged at the Times for publishing this 'deranged leader'. What, yawning? Bored already? Nip over to ConHome and have a read. I promise you will not be bored. McBain transposes the events of 1930s Spain to 1970s and 80s Britain. I am sick of hearing about (and indeed, from) the romantic idiots who set off for Spain one summer morning in the Thirties, at the bidding of Moscow’s hard men in British cities, who conned them into leaving Depression Europe for the parched hills of Spain and life in Stalin’s international infantry. They thought themselves noble. They were dupes. They were told they were fighting ‘Fascism’. They weren’t, of course. (The term was not used in that place at that time. Read the ConHome article.) That was what Uncle Joe’s hard men told them. They were in fact joining Uncle Joe’s murder squads and their job was to enlarge his empire. To be continued.