Homage to Catalonia: Difference between revisions

* [[Eagle Squadron]]: The many international volunteers, including Orwell himself, who came to Spain to fight for [[The Republic]].

* [[Everybody Smokes]]: Shortage of cigarettes is often brought up as a major hardship of war. Orwell even refers to it as a 'tobacco famine'.

* [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy]]: Everyone in Spain, according to Orwell. 'In this war, everyone always did miss everyone else, when it was humanly possible.' It saved his life on several occasions.

* [[Language Equals Thought]]: The leftists refused to use ceremonial forms of address, preferring to simply call each other "thou" or "comrade".

* [[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.

* [[The Revolution Will Not Be Vilified]]: Propaganda was common on all sides, something Orwell is careful to note.

* [[War Is Hell]]: Played with. The chapters about the trench warfare on the Aragon front don't fit this trope, but not [[War Is Glorious]], either; rather, Orwell describes it as boring and stale. He repeatedly emphasises that there was hardly any action, and that everyone was more concerned about food and firewood than about the enemy.

* [[Was It All a Lie?]]: After the betrayal by the Stalinists.

* [[We ARE Struggling Together!]]: Communists and Anarchists.

* [[Witch Hunt]]: What the [[The Man Behind the Man|Soviet-backed]] Communists unleashed against the POUM.

 

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