During the war Woodie carried around a guitar that said “This machine kills Fascists”.
Why say Fascists and not Nazis, a young person might ask. It’s because the Nazis were National Socialists. And leftists would rather you not know that.
During the war Woodie carried around a guitar that said “This machine kills Fascists”.
Why say Fascists and not Nazis, a young person might ask. It’s because the Nazis were National Socialists. And leftists would rather you not know that.
Yes, he had it on all his instruments.
“It’s because the Nazis were National Socialists.”
True.
“Controversial problems [between Germany and Russia] did not, in my opinion, exist anywhere along the line from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea and to the Far East.
In addition, despite all the divergencies in their views of life, there was one thing common to the ideology of Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union: opposition to the capitalist democracies in the West.”—Julius Schnurre, Nazi trade rep to Russia.
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by Shirer. Page 501 in my copy,
IIRC, the inscription “This Machine Kills Fascists” was seen during the Spanish Civil War on aircraft provided by the Soviet Union to fly supplies to the “Republican” (read: communist) side.
The Spanish Reds were the darlings of the literary & artistic set in this country (Ernest Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, etc.) even as they were murdering their way through areas of Spain under their control. They were a natural fit for folkies like Guthrey because they “said all the right things”.
However, it was Gen. Francisco Franco who finally prevailed, leading to the ironic saying that “although he may have won all the battles, we had all the good songs”.
Plug for Franco: kept Spain out of WWII, kept it from going communist, bequeathed a restored monarchy & democratic government upon his death, and now the socialists in Madrid are digging up his remains for relocation elsewhere. The Spanish Civil War is far from over.