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Ernest Hemingway wielding a Mosin Nagant while fighting for the Republicans during the Spanish civil war, 1937 (slrpnk.net)

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[–] match@pawb.social 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

is this the late modern equivalent of volunteering to fight in Ukraine

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.