this is a Molotov-Ribbentrop moment for Western tankieshttps://twitter.com/StephenMcDonell/status/1432277087830908931 …
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anyway tldr yes it is a foreign language. Molotov was Russian and Ribbentrop was German
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I really like when you tell me history stories


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I think Orwell's disillusionment started earlier when he ended up on the wrong side of a party purge in Barcelona.
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(stalin's betrayal causing orwell to catch a bullet in the neck in Spain, only being pulled out by his wife)
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i think you might enjoy homage to catalonia (where he writes of this and others). good bits about journalism (ethics, reality distortion, etc), practical consequences of the anarchist rev, psychology of guerilla fighting
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Which is funny because Homage to Catalonia is heavy with salt from an earlier betrayal (rubbed into a GSW to the throat, no less): throwing Spain to Franco rather than let anarchists win.
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