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Post by Waverley on Sept 30, 2007 21:19:59 GMT 1
Monument to the International Brigade on Glasgow’s Clydeside bearing the inscription: ‘BETTER TO DIE ON YOUR FEET THAN LIVE FOREVER ON YOUR KNEES’ Dolores Ibarruri, ‘La Passionara’...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2009 11:07:35 GMT 1
This week sees the 70th. anniversary of the Spanish War.
From a Scottish member of the International Brigade.
" If we had'nt fought the fascists in Spain, we would have been fighting them in Scotland "
From La Pasionaria.
" Better to die on on your feet than live forever on your knees. "
At the fare well of the surviving members of the International Brigade when Fascist victory was inevitable.
" Comrades of the International Brigades, political reasons, reasons of state, the good of that same cause for which you offered your blood with limitless generosity, send some of you back to your countries and some to forced excile. You can go with pride.You are history. You are legend. You are the heroic example of the solidarity and the universitality of democracy. We will not forget you and when the olive tree of peace puts forth its leaves , entwined with the laurels of the Spanish Republic 's victory, come back. ".
From a nice wee article in todays Daily Record.
Very poignant and to me emotional about a War that started and finished before I was born .
Not forgotten. No Passeran.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2009 20:34:22 GMT 1
Thursday 13th August.
STV-9pm
" THE SCOTS WHO FAUGHT FRANCO "
I have seen " The Trailer " and for me unmissable.
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Post by Waverley on Aug 7, 2009 22:24:53 GMT 1
Andy as much as I have sympathy with their ideal and basically understand where they were coming from I still feel that there seems to be some sort of 'super hero' culture built around them simply because of their cause.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2009 0:05:51 GMT 1
Of course
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Post by Waverley on Aug 16, 2009 0:21:40 GMT 1
Found it quite interesting especially the guy from Aberdeen who seemed to know that they were there to kill and that war is a serious business.
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