[BEST OF] The Spanish Civil War
Rev Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
4.8 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2025
⏱️ 108 minutes
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ORIGINALLY RELEASED Jul 28, 2018
John from Working Class History joins Brett to discuss the Spanish Civil War! This is a long-anticipated episode on a deeply important and relevant historical event. We spent a LOT of time editing and producing this episode, so we hope you find it informative as well as genuinely moving.
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| 0:00.0 | When I see the animals and the dead people in the picture, |
| 0:09.0 | I remember that night when I went along the road to Gernika, |
| 0:13.0 | after we left the air-ed shelters. |
| 0:17.0 | It was full of dead animals, and people covered in sacks. |
| 0:21.6 | Dead. |
| 0:23.6 | I have always been filled with emotion to see that woman burning on the balcony with her arms outstretched. |
| 0:32.6 | I think she could be my grandmother. |
| 0:42.3 | Picasso's painting, Genica. |
| 0:46.3 | For two survivors, the town's bombing in the Spanish Civil War has a personal memory, |
| 0:52.3 | but for nearly 50 years it has echoed in the conscience of the world. |
| 1:00.7 | Spain, in the 1930s, was in many ways still struggling out of the 19th century, |
| 1:06.9 | but it found itself the arena and battlefield for ideologies of the 20th. |
| 1:13.6 | Men and women from all over the world fought for dreams of democracy or communism or fascism. |
| 1:20.6 | Those ideas were later given a bitter, new meaning by the hindsight of global conflict on the Cold War. |
| 1:30.3 | The United States Revolution, Revolution! Revolution! Revolution! Revolution! Revolution! Revolution Revolution |
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| 2:12.6 | Unite the left |
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