October 22, 2020
THANKS, GENERALISSIMO!:
The contested legacy of the anti-fascist International Brigades (Giles Tremlett, 22 Oct 2020, The Guardian)
International Brigades veterans went on to serve as iron curtain prime ministers - or equivalent - in East Germany, Hungary and Albania. They provided dozens of ministers, generals, police chiefs and ambassadors across all Europe's communist regimes - forming a potent elite, although they were mostly working-class. In East Germany, former International Brigades volunteers founded and ran the notorious Stasi. Suppressing freedom was part of their job. Little surprise, then, that some countrymen now despise them.
Posted by Orrin Judd at October 22, 2020 6:42 AM