Picture of the day
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That is a staged promotional picture. The horses look to have been dead for awhile. The animals really suffered during the wars preceding and some after WWII. I feel sorry for them. They were likely the most innocent along with the children and neither of them had anything they could do about it.
Then one died looking up - for help?
Those horses were pulled together and piled on top of each other. They are still in harness so likely the horse on the bottom had its head propped on another animal and as mentioned when they were put on the pile rigor mortis had already set in. The also look to be bloated a bit. The fore legs wouldn't be separated as in the picture.
yes ... probably this painting and For Whom The Bell Tolls .. exposed more non-Spanish people to the effects of their civil war. Spain is still a country with many horses. Every horse I have seen in Spain was well cared for.
CBC ran a radio special on Canadians who served in the Spanish Civil War - although I do not recall them mentioning Dr Norman Bethune who developed and operated a mobile blood transfusion unit - at the front. Christ - he was a remarkable man!
stolen from wiki:
"A prominent Communist and veteran of the First World War, he wrote that wars were motivated by profits, not principles.[SUP][3][/SUP] Statues in his honour can be found in cities throughout China."
amen to that.
Moving and piling dead horses still in their harnesses .... yeah, right. Ever deal with a large moose or bison carcass?
It would take a forensic analysis to prove it either way. That famous picture of a Spanish soldier falling after being struck by a bullet was thought to be a fake. Recent forensic analysis proved otherwise, one of the clues being the 'body language', particularly of the hands and head. There was no action to minimize the effects of such a fall to indicate a staged fall.
Wiki .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horses_in_World_War_II
some one who has been cold cocked (or shot) goes down in a very different way than someone who is conscious. watch from 1:25 .. https://youtu.be/HIIx9h7yhaw
fat tony
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Picasso would have agreed
From what I read up on, Picasso was supposed to have been commissioned to make this cubanistic / dynamic propaganda poster for the Republican side. The Republicans wanted the Internationale salute incorporated somehow into the poster. The Internationale salute was the closed right fist held up to the right temple ("upper right").
Picasso did not really like being a water boy for propagandists of any stripe, so he eventually drew in a man with his hand absolutely crushed and macerated ("bottom left"). It sure looks like a left hand. If that is the case, then he inverted their salute. Finally, the electric light is an interesting play on words in Spanish. In that language, 'bomba' is the term for an electric light bulb.
The horror of a 1930s air attack. It would go pretty much the same today but 10x. Imagine what your town would look like after a modern air strike.
Imo the professor made the right decision.
I am not sure if I would like Dr. Bethune were I to have any dealings with him. Nothing to do with him being a Communist or womanizer.
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Eaglelord17
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I think it would be worse with a air strike in WWII era than modern era. Modern air strikes go for specific targets, WWII ones target the whole area. Also in WWII they liked to use such things as firebombs, vs now were we prefer smart-guided bombs and missiles and only use enough to accomplish the job (especially considering the cost of a modern missile or bomb). Overall I don't think you can really beat a airstrike like the ones that hit Dresden in WWII, unless you are comparing that to places like Hiroshima.
