Thanks, better have three good answers than none. BTW this is a good quote:
“Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie. I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been killed. I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and traitors, and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed as the heroes of imaginary victories, and I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies and eager intellectuals building emotional superstructures over events that had never happened. I saw, in fact, history being written not in terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various ‘party lines’.”
George Orwell, who fought in the Spanish Civil War
re: George Orwell quote
Not sure source of the Orwell quote but guessing it is from Orwell’s Most Interesting book, “Homage to Catalonia” where he travels to Spain to report on the Civil War and ends up joining the battle against the fascists. He gets shot in the neck at one point - survives - and continues on. Wonderful look at the total confusion in war — at times not knowing who he is shooting at - friend or foe? I recommend it to everyone. Time period 1936 to 1938.
Re fake fighting - Do any of you Frens have a link for that fake video that has the peasants trudging past the tank as it fires and the fake body flying up??
Hemingway was another mentally scarred by that war.
Best I can understand it, it was a 3-way cluster-bungle -- communists, fascists, and a bizarre contingent who just wanted to live free of the other two groups.
This current reporting about Ukraine should be the end of our media as we have known it. I'd be okay with having all of them split between Rittenhouse and Sandman.
They could just show up daily, and decide who to fire that day. Let the commies shiver in the terror of economic uncertainty and ruin, like they have done to all Americans.