Above is a young revolutionary militia women in the first days of the Spanish Civil War.
The early days of Revolution are the sweetest.
Before the blood, and betrayal.
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I’ve always loved this photo. I love the brash confidence.
I think I’d rather not learn this woman’s fate. Over a decade, even in “peacetime,” Franco killed about a million people for their political views. It’s covered in a book called “The Spanish Holocast,” by historian Paul Preston.
To this day, there’s a movement for alternative economics, in Barcelona and other parts of Spain:
This sort of thing is happening in Greece too. The places whose economies are tanking first are adapting first to the new conditions. Over time they may wind up better off than currently richer countries.
2 comments:
I’ve always loved this photo. I love the brash confidence.
I think I’d rather not learn this woman’s fate. Over a decade, even in “peacetime,” Franco killed about a million people for their political views. It’s covered in a book called “The Spanish Holocast,” by historian Paul Preston.
To this day, there’s a movement for alternative economics, in Barcelona and other parts of Spain:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/sep/04/spain-euro-free-economy
https://cles.org.uk/blog/barcelona-building-a-new-local-economics/
This sort of thing is happening in Greece too. The places whose economies are tanking first are adapting first to the new conditions. Over time they may wind up better off than currently richer countries.
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The first to fall will be the first to rise.
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