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Ernest Hemingway wielding a Mosin Nagant while fighting for the Republicans during the Spanish civil war, 1937 (slrpnk.net)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/historyporn

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Incidentally, Orwell fought in the Spanish Civil war as well under the POUM, and went on to write a book about it. What he saw in Catalonia solidified him as a Democratic Socialist for the rest of his life, and soured him on totalitarian communism after seeing how the communists betrayed the Anarchists and the POUM, which inspired him to write Animal Farm.

For a deeper history on the Spanish Civil War, I'd highly recommend this excellent documentary series.

[–] PugJesus 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Homage to Catalonia is amazing, highly recommend.

[–] blubton 13 points 7 months ago

I recently read this and was surprised at how good it was. I loved Orwells Animal Farm, but didn't like 1984 that much, so I wasn't expecting to enjoy it; I read it more to get some insights of the war. But the book is not just informative, it is also really funny at times, and the story is just wild.

I second this recommendation.

[+] [email protected] -28 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Betrayal is a bit of a hefty charge to be leveled against anyone by the guy who turned government informant and denounced writers he thought were too communist to the British government.

[–] meeeeetch 50 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Betrayal is about the only word to accurately describe the historically documented events when Soviet-backed communist troops began firing on non-Soviet-backed communist and anarchist troops in the middle of the civil war.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

Or the summary executions of individuals that criticized the growing Stalinist influence. Hemingway rather famously had falling outs with several of his friends for ignoring other friends being executed in the street.

[–] givesomefucks 11 points 7 months ago

Yeah, but that's critical thinking and using words as they're intended to be used...

This is social media and the topic is political ideology so no one has any time for such nonsense as that

[–] captainlezbian 7 points 7 months ago

The Soviets did shoot him before he did any of that. Like idk what your definition of betrayal is, but mine includes shooting your comrades

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

is this the late modern equivalent of volunteering to fight in Ukraine

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It's eerily similar. Another modern instance would be the International Freedom Battalions in Rojava, which were directly inspired from the International Brigades of the Spanish Civil War.

[–] aeronmelon 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

No one could ever accuse Ernest Hemingway of being a boring person:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV8krTEQIXQ

[–] phoneymouse 7 points 7 months ago

I’m sure he had political reasons, but it also provided material for For Whom The Bell Tolls.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Fun fact, he went as a journalist and violated international laws by participating, which there is scant evidence he actually did any fighting himself.