No pasarán: anti-fascist slogan takes on new significance in Ukraine crisis

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New generation of volunteers are answering Ukraine’s call to join war effort, in echo of Spanish civil war

The bad news for Putin is that some are already on their way, abandoning cozy homes and loving families in North and South America, Europe and Asia to fight in a foreign field. Over the past few days, I have been talking to the Canadian paramedic Anthony Walker as he travels through Poland towards Ukraine. The 29-year-old from Toronto is in contact with dozens more people who are also travelling, including military veterans from Canada, the UK and the US.

Like many International Brigadiers, Walker believes he will be protecting his own family back home from the global spread of Putin’s fascist-style violence if he is not stopped now.holds lessons that volunteers should heed. The first, obviously, is that war is deadly. One in five International Brigadiers died, and a similar number were seriously wounded. They also killed a lot of people, many of them conscripts.

Looking at the first pictures of volunteers in the Ukraine, whether doing TikTok dances from the Indian subcontinent or daubing themselves with war paint, it seems obvious the legion will attract all types. Ukraine’s military must assert its control. Those who are injured, mortally or not, may well have last-minute regrets. George Orwell felt “violent resentment at having to leave this world which, when all is said and done, suits me so well” after being shot through the neck in Spain. He survived, and while he hated the thought of dying, he never regretted fighting there.

 

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