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Spanish Civil War Veteran Moe Fishman, 92, Dies

HeadlineAug 09, 2007

And Spanish Civil War veteran Moe Fishman has died at the age of 92. In the late 1930s he volunteered with other Americans to fight General Franco and fascism in Spain. After the war ended, Fishman helped form the Veterans of Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Moe Fishman appeared on Democracy Now! in April.

Moe Fishman: “The International Brigade, of which we were a part, consisted of about 40,000 to 45,000 volunteers from 52 countries who came to the aid of the Spanish Republic, and I want to emphasize 'came to the aid of.' It was the Spanish Republic and their people who fought this war and deserved the major credit for the big fight that they put up, which gave the democracies a two-and-a-half-year window of opportunity to change from a policy of appeasing fascism, led by Chamberlain of Britain and subscribed to by Roosevelt, to one of actively fighting fascism. If they had actively fought fascism in 1936-1939, we would have stopped Hitler, and there would have been no World War II.”

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