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* [[Language Equals Thought]]: The leftists refused to use ceremonial forms of address, preferring to simply call each other "thou" or "comrade".
** On another level, the politically motivated distortions of the truth found on all sides of the war.
* [[Orwellian Editor]]: The [[Blatant Lies|horrible distortions of the truth]] which Orwell witnessed in Spain are the [[Trope Maker]] - they inspired the constant rewriting of the past in ''[[Nineteen Eighty
* [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]: The various party militias on the Republican side. Orwell describes the POUM militia, in which he served, as a particularly [[Egregious]] example of this trope - an untrained, scruffy-looking band, partly composed of teenage boys whose enthusiasm was decidedly greater than their common sense.
* [[Red Scare]]: Inverted - various "Red" factions accused each other of ''not'' being Red enough. Communist propaganda even accused the POUM of plotting with Franco, a "Brown Scare" if you will.
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