Of course, Franco was armed by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy – whilst the USSR rallied the International Working Class (via the Communist Party). These brave men and women made their own way to Spain and fought and died in the ‘International Brigades’ – under the protection and care of the Soviet Union whilst their own countries considered them ‘criminals’. Even the Bourgeois tractor – George Orwell – joined an anti-Soviet ‘Anarchist’ Brigade! The point is that Grover Furr correctly states that the US, UK and France (even during 1940) would rather have fought with Nazi Germany against the USSR – than with the USSR against Nazi Germany! Joseph Stalin was the genuine hero of the International Working-Class – and Leon Trotsky the worst type of International Traitor!