ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-27 months agoErnest Hemingway wielding a Mosin Nagant while fighting for the Republicans during the Spanish civil war, 1937slrpnk.netimagemessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up1223arrow-down12
arrow-up1221arrow-down1imageErnest Hemingway wielding a Mosin Nagant while fighting for the Republicans during the Spanish civil war, 1937slrpnk.netProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-27 months agomessage-square13fedilink
minus-squareMatch!!@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20arrow-down2·7 months agois this the late modern equivalent of volunteering to fight in Ukraine
minus-squareProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·edit-27 months agoIt’s eerily similar. Another modern instance would be the International Freedom Battalions in Rojava, which were directly inspired from the International Brigades of the Spanish Civil War.
is this the late modern equivalent of volunteering to fight in Ukraine
It’s eerily similar. Another modern instance would be the International Freedom Battalions in Rojava, which were directly inspired from the International Brigades of the Spanish Civil War.