Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]rolfe - without re-fighting the war on LUG let me just say that i'll be taking this off list and communicating with you directly. sorry to the list for stirring up things that were best left alone. ernie On Sunday, June 1, 2003, at 08:45 PM, Rolfe Tessem wrote: > Ernest Nitka wrote: >> gee I didn't realize that this war was re-fought on the LUG - who won? > > Ernie, > > I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you don't understand that > many people, even today, are sensitive about the politics of the > Spanish Civil War. > > The reason is that their parents or relatives were persecuted > relentlessly by Joseph McCarthy and his crowd for going over to Spain > and acting as ambulance drivers and so on for the forces fighting the > fascists in Spain. There isn't really any question as to who were the > "good guys" and who were the "bad guys". The fact is that the fascist > government was an ally of the Hitler and the German Nazis. Without > Hitler's help, the fascists would never have prevailed. > > For further reference, see Picasso's "Guernica". > >> ernie >> On Sunday, June 1, 2003, at 07:46 PM, Rolfe Tessem wrote: >>> Ernest Nitka wrote: >>> >>>> And.... don't wake me because I have finally hit the wall with >>>> Leica /Camera Acquisition Syndrome - I no longer have $, room or my >>>> wife's patience to buy another shred of camera equipment !! >>>> BTW just started watching the Robt. Capa documentary as I had it >>>> recorded. I'm not sure this was commented on before but so far ( >>>> 2/3 done) I found it interesting if not a little romantic about the >>>> non-fascist side of the war that Capa and other's participated in . >>>> My early reading of the war was that it is too simplistic and >>>> probably wrong to say the facists were the bad guys ( no doubt they >>>> were) and that the other side were good folks - they too were pawns >>>> in many instances of the communsits in the Kremlin. Anyway I'm >>>> enjoying the photography portions. >>> >>> >>> Please tell me that the LUG is not going to refight the Spanish >>> Civil War. > > > -- > Rolfe Tessem | Lucky Duck Productions, Inc. > rolfe@ldp.com | 96 Morton Street > (212) 463-0029 | New York, Ny 10014 > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html