International Brigade

Submitted by SAKOVKT (United States), Jan 5, 2016 at 05:14

What also has an "air of realism" is the fact that the International Brigade openly recruited in Paris during the Spanish Civil War.

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/international-brigade-paris

In Otto von Bismarck day, Paris was regarded as a cesspool of revolution.

(During the Great Napoleon's time, it was! Ha!)
The Fascists were really no worse, in any objective sense, than the communists and maybe it's time to get off the war propaganda stereotypes if we are to make sense of the period.
Point of fact, Paris has a tradition of this sort of thing.
Maybe, it's not a good idea.
After all, it was the immigrants-refugees from the Russian Pale of Settlement who reintroduced anti-Semitism in a particularly vehement form during the First World War into a Europe which had emancipated Jews from the old Standesstat regulations.
Bismarck, himself, was involved in this with his confidant Gerson Bleichroder, all under the currently much smeared "Nationalist Movement" of the time.
The Prussian idea that government does have a role to play in protecting the social, cultural and moral structure of a nation, whatever it may be at the time, might not be one to take so lightly.
After all, it was George Orwell to actually fought in the International Brigade who later came to regret it.
Poor George also never figured out that socialism and democracy were incompatible and remained convinced of the English speaking peoples' ability to achieve "Social Democracy", which sort of what we have, today.
How do you like it?

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