{"id":136726,"date":"2014-08-14T07:34:39","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T07:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=136726"},"modified":"2014-08-14T07:34:39","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T07:34:39","slug":"two-spanish-anti-fascists-go-ukraine-join-battle-ukraines-nazis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/two-spanish-anti-fascists-go-ukraine-join-battle-ukraines-nazis\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Spanish Anti-Fascists Go to Ukraine to Join Battle Against Ukraine\u2019s Nazis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse\u00a0<\/em>
\nRINF Alternative News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The article below is translated from Russian without the original\u2019s accompanying photos, which can be seen by clicking on the original:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/politikus.ru\/events\/26682-on-hatu-pokinul-poshel-voevat-chtob-zemlyu-v-donecke-fashistam-ne-dat.html<\/a><\/p>\n

and it\u2019s based on the Spanish-language \u201cTwo Spaniards at the Battle of Donetsk, No Return Ticket<\/b>,\u201d 10 August 2014 (which has yet more photos):<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.elmundo.es\/cronica\/2014\/08\/10\/53e5f24ce2704ec30d8b4570.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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To Defend the Donbass, Volunteers Came from Spain<\/b><\/p>\n

11-08-2014, 21:56<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Angel Arribas Mateo from Cartagena, and Rafael Munoz Perez of Asturias, are fighting side-by-side with the [anti-Kiev-Government] militia, as they say, “against fascism.”<\/p>\n

More on why these men have come to New Russia: as they told their story to the Spanish magazine\u00a0El Mundo<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Both men are assigned to the battalion “Vostok”, which, as stressed by the publication, also specializes in shooting down aircraft. “They are fighting for a federal state Novorossia confederation DNR and LC” [New Russia, consisting of Donetsk and Luhansk Republics]\u00a0\u00a0– the article says. Though the young men do not have military experience under their belt, they are now studying it. They have made theirs the flag of the Second Spanish Republic, bearing the inscription \u00abNo pasaran!\u00bb (\u201cThey shall not pass!\u201d).<\/p>\n

The Spanish Republic existed in the years 1931-1939, and in its defense in those years many Russian volunteers came from the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n

And what a turn-around now: the Spaniards are coming to help protect Russians against the fascists, this time.<\/p>\n

According to 22-year-old Angel, a turning point for him was\u00a0the Odessa tragedy<\/span><\/a>, which killed more than 40 people. “I could not bear to see this barbarity and feel that I can not do anything – he told reporters. – If this had happened in Spain, I could become one of the victims.” Then, Angel took the money set aside for a vacation to the UK, and went instead to help the militia. “Before the start of the youth wing of the Communist Party of Peoples of Spain (PCPE), he was a member of the youth wing of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE), part of the “United Left “- the article says.<\/p>\n

Another Spanish volunteer activist is the social worker and professional rescuer Rafael.<\/p>\n

As a result, these two like-minded people communicated via social networks, and flew to Ukraine on 23 July.<\/p>\n

They remembered as they appeared in Kiev: at the station they encountered the officials. “Then there were the security services, armed with machine guns,\u201d says Angel. \u201cWe were separated and bundled into different cars. We were very scared, we were shouted at, over and over again, the same questions in English: \u2018What’s your name?\u2019, \u2018Why are you going to the east?\u2019, \u2018What are your plans?\u2019\u201d They were released, but not before being forced to sign a document, “which will make them criminals if they return to Ukraine.” But the men still went to the east, where they joined the militia. As long as they do not understand the language, they\u2019ll try to learn it, the article says. “They only know the nickname of his commander, who is called Dusman. He listens to former plumbers, electricians and teachers, who now have taken up arms. Their age – from 20 to 60 years.” Angel says that he is ready to go into battle, “to defend this nation against Nazi bastards.” “We realized how much risk we face,\u201d said Rafael. \u201cProbably, if the defense fails, … if we see that all is lost, or if the civilian population will support [the Nazis], we’ll leave [go back to Spain].” But in the event of an outright victory over the junta, Angel expressed a desire to live here.<\/p>\n

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Historical note from Eric Zuesse:<\/b>\u00a0The great Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the exact\u00a0opposite of\u00a0Barack Obama. Whereas Obama\u00a0installed nazism into control of\u00a0Ukraine<\/span><\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0February 2014,\u00a0FDR on 10 March 1945 wrote to the U.S. Ambassador in\u00a0Spain<\/span><\/a>\u00a0telling him to reject from Spain\u2019s fascist dictator Francisco Franco,\u00a0\u201cactions\u00a0more favorable to us now that we are about to achieve our goal of\u00a0complete\u00a0victory over these enemies of ours with whom the present Spanish\u00a0regime\u00a0identified itself,\u201d and that, to the contrary of our accepting Franco\u2019s advances, \u201cOur victory over Germany\u00a0will\u00a0carry with it the extermination of Nazi and similar ideologies,\u201d such\u00a0as Franco\u2019s,\u00a0and especially such as Obama has recently installed into Ukraine, nazi. Whereas FDR was passionately anti-fascist, Obama is secretly not just fascist butracist<\/i>-fascist, or nazi (against Russians, this being the racism that he\u2019s installed into power in Kiev), and is anti-fascist only in his lying rhetoric, but the exact opposite of anti-fascist in his real actions as U.S. President.\u00a0For Democrats not to impeach Obama would be for the Democratic Party to nullify itself, to simply end: to have no principles left that meaningfully and clearly distinguish the Democratic Party from the conservative Republican Party.\u00a0This will be the ultimate test of whether there\u2019s anything remaining of the Democratic Party that FDR led.<\/p>\n

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0\u00a0They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/a>,<\/i>\u00a0\u00a0and of\u00a0\u00a0CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse\u00a0 RINF Alternative News The article below is translated from Russian without the original\u2019s accompanying photos, which can be seen by clicking on the original: http:\/\/politikus.ru\/events\/26682-on-hatu-pokinul-poshel-voevat-chtob-zemlyu-v-donecke-fashistam-ne-dat.html and it\u2019s based on the Spanish-language \u201cTwo Spaniards at the Battle of Donetsk, No Return Ticket,\u201d 10 August 2014 (which has yet more photos): http:\/\/www.elmundo.es\/cronica\/2014\/08\/10\/53e5f24ce2704ec30d8b4570.html — To Defend […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":136727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,461],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-136726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-editorials"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}