[Marxism] Poland moves to cancel pensions to veterans of Spanish civil war

[Greg Dunkel <gdunkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A member of the Law & Justice Party (PiS) has just proposed that the 
Polish veterans of the Dabrowszczacy Brigade in the Spanish Civil War 
loose their pensions. (Jaroslaw Dabrowski was a Polish soldier who fell 
on the barricades of the 1871 Commune in France.)

His justification is that they were witting or unwitting dupes of 
Stalinism, and certainly were NOT fighting for Poland.

The pensions are small -- $150 a month at best -- and the vets are in 
their 80s and 90s.  But it is the principle of the anti-communist 
witchhunt the twins Lech & Jaroslaw Kaczynski -- respectively president 
& prime minister of Poland -- are conducting.

There have been protests in Spain and France over these moves.

(source: Le Monde, April 13)

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