"therefore it is not trolling."
Your persistent ill-brought-up and aggressive attempts to talk to talk down to people are
If you wish to be taken seriously, I suggest you pack it in - our in-house meglomanic clown' spot is already taken
"The volunteers raised controversy at the time. "
From the experience of my father and others I have met, any controversy was deliberately generated by the lie that those who went of to fight were communists bent on fermenting revolution, when the opposite was the case
Even on the eve of Britain's war with Germany, on their return, they were criminalised and given a record as "premature anti-fascists" and blacklisted from their work - that is how much WW2 was the "war against fascism" it was claimed to have been
The personal consequences of this was that my family didn't see may father on a regular basis until he was able to obtain regular work at home in 1950
That was the 'Home fit for heroes' that the establishment created from the sacrifices of Spain and WW2
Jim Carroll