Why be satisfied with leftist propaganda on the Spanish
Civil War? Carroll's treatment of the events of 1936 is singular in
Anglo-American scholarship for seeing the conflict for what is truly was: a
death struggle against the Christian faith and a war against Christian
civilization in Europe. This outstanding work of
scholarship illustrates the phenomenon of the traditionalist as revisionist:
the distortions of decades of Marxist historiography are overturned in
Carroll's narration of the bloody struggle to preserve Western civilization in
the heart of 20th century Europe. [Amazon, Book Description]
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Reviews:
The Christian victims of the Spanish Socialist Revolution,
April 2, 2007
By Quilmiense
(USA/Spain)
This review is from: Last
Crusade: Spain
1936 (Paperback)
What legitimacy does a government have when it does
not protect its citizens? The Spanish governments looked the other way while
the socialist hordes destroyed churches and killed members of the clergy freely
since 1931."July 24 1936, three Discalced Carmelite sisters (the order founded by St. Teresa of Ávila) were recognized by militia in a Madrid street ... 'Nuns! Shoot them!' one of the militiamen cried. They opened fire at once on the helpless women, killing one instantly and severely wounding another." Then an Assault Guard appeared and stopped a bus to take the wounded nun to the hospital... "Give her here and I'll finish her off!" cried the bus driver. "The third nun escaped for the moment ... and was eventually accosted by a man who pretended to want to help her, but turned her over to another group of militia who shot her also before the day was done."
The book is filled with well documented and horrifying stories like this one. These are common street people, not SS nazi officers. It leaves one speechless wondering what kind of evil must have possessed these people to hate innocent nuns and priests (Christ) so much.
This book is very important because these facts are not as well known as they should. Here the crimes committed against Christians by the hound dogs of the Left since 1931 are condensed and made self-evident. There are no excuses, no attempts to underscore the barbarity committed by the hordes of the self-righteous Left. A must read, specially for those who say they like to read both sides of the story. Well, here's the side you couldn't find (or could you?).
Mr. Carroll does well in finding the first symptoms of the Spanish malady in the 20th century in the effects of '98: the ignominious way we lost the remnants of the Spanish empire. After 1898 "large segments of Spanish society were alienated from the national heritage." `98 was not the cause of our (still present) malady, this must be clear, it was the signal to start shooting, that things couldn't go any worse, and that it was time for the wackiest Spaniards to take control. Exacerbated local nationalisms, loss of prestige of a national identity, political extremism (influence of foreign fascism & communism), all colluded to get us into the Civil War and beyond.
This is a succinct study, from a Catholic (or religious if you may) perspective, focusing on the victims of anti-religious hatred, martyrs of the Cross, people who still in 2007 haven't been honored or recognized, but are kept aside of most leftist history books.
Facts and figures. Nobody can deny them. Here they are exposed in a clear and succinct way for everyone to check out, if they want to look into it. There are two points that need updating on this book, though. One is that the death of anarchist Durruti is mostly agreed today to have been ordered by Stalin and committed by one his loyal henchman. The second is that Negrín was indeed a undercover Stalinist agent, a fact that nobody can deny today. His theft of the Spanish gold reserves, and their subsequent delivery to Moscow, plus his replacement of Largo Caballero as Prime Minister, ordered by Stalin as well had, indeed, no other explanation. Largo, fanatic as he was, would not murder his anarchist allies, but Negrín would prove a more obedient employee.
"Socialists and anarchists never tired of painting the clergy as hirelings of the rich "upper classes", though in fact most priests received little more money than their parishioners and most religious lived in near poverty ... many people still believed the socialist and anarchist charges." It's sad that one has to try to convince people that the accusations of the Left were not true. If they were, would the burning of churches and the killing of priests and nuns be more tolerable? The official break of the Civil War was in July 1936, but for the victims of the Left it had started in May 1931: "About a hundred churches and other religious buildings were destroyed or damaged throughout Spain." The president of the government was opposed to stop these actions: "all the conventos in Spain are not worth the life of a single republican", he said. The socialists, anarchists and communists did not hide their totalitarian aspirations of establishing the dictatorship of the proletariat. They publicly vowed they would do it. They had already started in 31. The government never impeded their revolutionary actions. The strategy was to create chaos, destroy, and use the democratic system to gain control and destroy Spain from within. Today it's the same. We have illegal political parties: A republican and pro-independence Catalan party allied with the socialist government -in a constitutionally Monarchical nation; again, the socialist government negotiating with another illegal (& pro-terrorist Basque) party. Why? To hurt the Right's chances to ever win any more elections (like the PRI did in Mexico for 75 years). Spain's allies in foreign policy are, oh my!, countries well known for their love of democracy and freedom, and incorruptibility: Cuba, Venezuela, Morocco...
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And Mexico...
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