Thanks, Stephan, for that correction. It expands my understanding a
bit and makes me want to read more about that period.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On / January 27, 2008 CE, at 10:24 AM, Stephan Van den Zegel wrote:
> The New-York Times is slightly wrong (as usual) when describing Capa
> and the
> others as communist minded...; they had more connection with the
> Spanish
> anarchists or Poum members than with the few communists... (hence the
> Mexican connection to get the docs out of trouble). And to be more
> precise
> on the famous picture it is not a republican soldier but of a
> milician of an
> anarcho-syndicalist column (soldier would be a great offense for his
> memory)... a thing that the official communists would have love to
> destroy
> the proof that it ever existed. I know it sounds a bit stupid to
> make such
> an historical distinction... but for those who know the difference
> it's like
> if a journalist was asserting that zuiko lenses where build to fit
> on a
> Canon or Nikon body ;-)
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