But the author's thinking changes after he witnesses the cynical suppression of the P.O.U.M. by the Communist P.S.U.C., then gets shot in the throat by a Fascist sniper.
In the title location, the author experiences a sort of microcosm of a classless society, where the word "comrade" stood for comradeship and not, as in most countries, for humbug, and where there was a shortage of everything but no privilege and no boot-licking. But the author's thinking changes after he witnesses the cynical suppression of the P.O.U.M. by the Communist P.S.U.C., then gets shot in the throat by a Fascist sniper. FTP name this memoir of the Spanish Civil War by George Orwell.
In the title location, the author experiences a sort of microcosm of a classless society, where the word "comrade" stood for comradeship and not, as in most countries, for humbug, and where there was a shortage of everything but no privilege and no boot-licking.
{Homage to Catalonia}