: Ukraine’s foreign fighters are nothing like those who signed up to fight in the Spanish Civil War #IndiaNEWS When an ageing Abe Osheroff recalled why, as a 21-year-old kid from Brooklyn’s Brownsville

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Ukraine’s foreign fighters are nothing like those who signed up to fight in the Spanish Civil War #IndiaNEWS
When an ageing Abe Osheroff recalled why, as a 21-year-old kid from Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighbourhood, he had volunteered to join the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War in 1936, he framed it as a personal, ethical decision.“Some of my friends were already going over,� he said. “Some of them had been killed and wounded. … Then I began to see pictures of what was going on. … Bombardments, civilians getting plastered all over the place. … I knew that if I did not go, I would be ashamed all my life.�Today, his words seem to echo those of individuals from around the world who are willing to risk their lives to help Ukraine in its desperate struggle against the Russian invasion.“Sitting by and doing nothing? I had to do that when Afghanistan fell apart, and it weighed heavily on me. I had to act,� a US veteran confessed to a New York Times reporter before he headed east.Encouraged by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, volunteers are signing up – according to some reports, by the thousands – to join the ranks of what The Guardian has called “the most significant international brigade since the Spanish civil war�.The Guardian is not the first to draw an analogy between 1930s Spain and today’s Ukraine. But tempting as it is to compare...Read more

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