Comrade Commissar, when he's not busy shooting wreckers, kulaks, or bourgeois capitalists in the basement, managed to dig up something from the time of the Soviet Union's first big military effort beyond its borders. His post, Pasionara, has a link to the full story of the thing in question. Read the whole thing, of course.

Apparently, there was a woman on the "Republican" (People's Democratic Republic, you mean. --Ed.) side who went around making speeches in support of the anti-Franco cause. (Lots of talk, lots of fratricide; I tell you, these Marxists stay busy. --Ed.)

Levity aside, Comrade Commissar gives us two phrases that the woman used as signature lines, both of which are now meaningless in the Spanish political scene:

"It is better to be the widows of heroes than the wives of cowards!"

and

"[T]he Spanish people would rather die on its feet than live on its knees."

It boggles the mind to think that a nation whose people spent something like seven hundred years in warfare to eject the Moorish/Islamic presence would roll over and die, crying "No mas!" like Roberto Duran simply because some dirtbag Islamist decides to hit a train.

I find it ironic that Socialists, who are usually always ready to fight against this or that, are so willing to knuckle under when something really worth fighting comes along. Well, I said it before, and I'll say it again: We've won a world war without the help of the Spanish (and probably against their covert efforts, if Das Boot is to be believed) and we'll do it again.

One might be justified in thinking that all their real men moved to Mexico back during the days of Nueva Espana, or went down with treasure galleons.

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