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I'm reading Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell's account of his experience fighting for the Republic during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s, and found this excellent BBC documentary on the war.
As the first part shows, a lot of the issues that fueled the conflict remain all too relevant today, imo.
zeemike
(18,998 posts)IMO too.
History repeats itself because it works.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)The children of the Republic forced were stolen at birth and sold on the black market.
The Church of Rome saw the Republicans as being unfit parents, so they acted to deny them their rights.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-15335899
http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/25/world/europe/wus-spain-stolen-babies/
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/catholic-chilean-priest-helped-steal-babies-unwed-mothers-church-confirms-article-1.1902589
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/books/review/the-spanish-holocaust-by-paul-preston.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Joe Shlabotnik
(5,604 posts)I really enjoyed it.