In the Spanish Civil War, Franco won all the battles, but at least the commies had all the good songs.
Google `Abe Lincoln Brigade’ for snits & giggles. Lefties in America went to Spain to fight & more were killed by the Soviet NKVD than by the `evil fascists’.
Ernest Hemingway’s supporting the Reds during the civil war was shameful, to say the least.
The commies’ living saint, Dolores Ibarruri aka La Pasionaria kept the Red Spain mythology going on U.S. campuses well into the 1980’s where it flourishes even today.
Looks like it’s still active in Spain & now it pops up in Ukraine? Geez.......
Ukraine is a heavily leftist country, more so than Russia itself.
It is actually bouncing between two groups of socialists: “right-wing” aka fascists (national-socialists Jew-hating=leftists anyway) and full-blown commies. The latter aren’t even aware that the general direction they are fapping at (Russia) is not a Communist anymore to their great disappointment.
Ask any “democrat” pro-European Ukrainian why does he come to Maidan and what he thinks about Russian and the West.
“Russia sucks, we are poor with them. And in Europe you can do nothing and still get paid and have freebies!”
End of story.