Spanish Earth (1)

[slightlygrouchy]

This is a very interesting film. Thanks a bunch for posting it. You have great taste.

[BobForehead]

My pleasure and thanks, 'grouchy! It's a rare day when my taste is noted as palatable. (BTW, this is reminding me to post the playlist of this on a certain left-of-centre site where it should be accessible as cautionary tale, The Movement thanks you)

[DoubleDutchBust]

SpanisHDEarth (1)

DresserDrawer ( 4)

Steven Colbert what to do with him.4:40

July 14, 2009Earnest Hemingway

[BobForehead]

Vive l'Liberte, Hooray for th' Dutch.

[barkingmad33]

Milton Wolff arrived in Spain in March of 1937. He trained first as a medic and then as a machine gunner with the Washington Battalion (later the Lincoln-Washington). He fought in the battles of Brunete, Quinto, and Belchite. By Fuentes de Ebro, he was commander of a machine gun company. By Teruel, he was captain and adjutant. Then, when Commander Dave Reiss was killed, Wolff took over the battalion, eventually leading it in a great offensive across the Ebro and into the Sierra Pandols.

[stevevandien]

@barkingmad33 Wolff was a brave man and highly competent officer, no doubt about it.

[barkingmad33]

Ultimately, though, the League of Nations pulled the International Brigades out of Spain. Wolff and his comrades were sent home, and Republican Spain fell to the fascist insurgents.

Once back in the United States, Wolff continued to fight fascism as a speaker and writer. Like many other American veterans of the Spanish war, however, he found that he was viewed with suspicion by the U.S. government.

[barkingmad33]

During World War II, he was branded a "premature anti-fascist" and shunted away from the front. Even so, Wolff managed to see action in Italy and Burma.

During the fifties, Wolff and other Lincoln Brigade veterans became prime targets in the anti-Communist hysteria. They continued to speak out against fascism, and to this day fight for human rights around the globe.

[stevevandien]

@barkingmad33 TRAGIC that Wolff and his cohorts did not denounce the Soviet Union's atrocities. They seemed to inhabit a bizarre moral universe, where fascists were wrong (agreed), yet left-wing totalitarians (like Stalin and Mao) received NO condemnation. Now, nobody familiar with Hemingway would call his thinking subtle. Yet he refused to be drawn in by the Loyalists, who were dominated by Socialists and Communists.

[barkingmad33]

Please! Post the high res!

[BobForehead]

A'ight! I think i'll post it on DM, though- i think it'll be more intact that way. If you want the DiVX or file(s), maybe i should post them to a d/l site...

[DEATHINKING]

great series

[BobForehead]

I thought you'd like it, it's got REAL silver in the screen!

Lemme know if ya want the high-res version, which is Orson Wellarificly photogenic.

[rwethi]

I am very much interested in getting this version....