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- snowblind113, on 07/11/2009, -9/+80guardian.co.uk
- analogkid01, on 07/11/2009, -2/+43"The man go out to catch the feeeeeesh...and he catch the feeeeeesh..."
- inactive, on 07/12/2009, -30/+69That's because you are an immature retard. You probably also own a Che shirt, too.
I realize your dad wasn't around to bring you up to speed, but being a traitor to your country isn't 'badass.' - inactive, on 07/11/2009, -7/+44In Soviet Russia, Hemingway fails you!
- bubbameister33, on 07/11/2009, -3/+39I dugg this for the beard.
- Gwyddyon, on 07/11/2009, -5/+37Not surprising, really. He was a rabid Stalin apologist during the Spanish Civil War, after all.
Speaking of which, it's interesting how the article mentions Orwell's list of communists going to the Foreign Office as some kind of shock. Why would it be? After events in Barcelona, he became incredibly anti-Stalinist, hence "Animal Farm".
Buried for "duh". - jba68, on 07/11/2009, -4/+30How appropriate that his fatalistic writings, lifestyle, and outcome would mimic the outcome of Communism.
/huge fan of Hemingway - redscofield, on 07/11/2009, -13/+38bullsh*t
- inactive, on 07/11/2009, -1/+25The Sun Also Rises, Comrade.
- gonorea007, on 07/12/2009, -3/+27So, Hemingway:
1. survived the Spanish Civil War and was awarded for his actions
2. survived two plane crashes
3. killed one of every of God's most vicious creatures - to include tigers and elephants
4. watched bullfights simply to appease innate bloodlust, while penning novels about afflicted alcoholic men's men
5. Oh, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature
And now, we find he was a spy, too? C'mon, let's call the contest over, and give this guy the award for most manly. - Drahkir, on 07/11/2009, -3/+24The onus is on the accusers.
- ftwb, on 07/12/2009, -5/+25Seriously? You censored yourself saying "*****?"
- inactive, on 07/12/2009, -7/+26@rocknog
Only if I didn't see a moral difference between the USSR and the USA and was therefor pretty sick in the head. - inactive, on 07/12/2009, -1/+18So drinking Dos Equis will make me a communist now?
- mangotango420, on 07/11/2009, -30/+47This article makes it seem like it is a bad thing i think it makes Hemingway even more of a badass
- gwolf, on 07/12/2009, -5/+21Recruited in 1941, is that the same 1941 when we went to war with the Russians against the Nazis and Japan. Somehow I don't think the FBI was as concerned about what Hemmingway was doing as oh say ... Prescott Bush, for example.
- Auraness, on 07/12/2009, -0/+15Son, sharing God's green earth with anyone makes you a communist.
- cruik, on 07/11/2009, -1/+14More likely that they wanted him to produce pro-communist literature than be a political spy. He did participate in the Spanish Civil War alongside the communist supported republican forces, which inspired For Whom the Bell Tolls.
- troy1of2, on 07/11/2009, -2/+15Okay fine I'll try one. In Soviet Russia feeeeeesh catch you!
- himthatwas, on 07/12/2009, -0/+13Hmmmm, you might be right. You seem an honest chap, I'll just take your word for it.
- whatthefu, on 07/12/2009, -3/+15Stalin was a dick, but you have to admit he had style. Look at that mustache. I'm pretty sure anyone could fall in love with and want to help a guy with a mustache like that.
- diggmeordie, on 07/12/2009, -2/+14Seriously? You called out someone who called out someone who censored them self saying "*****?"
- Halsfield, on 07/12/2009, -5/+17I really fail to see how this sullies his name. He didn't give them any useful info or really help them in any way.
- consonance, on 07/12/2009, -0/+12"Son, sharing isn't caring--it's treason."
- Unreal030, on 07/12/2009, -1/+12"but being a traitor to your country isn't 'badass."
Thinking in black and white is never a good thing.
I disagree with this comment based on the message this movie is based on:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401997/
Albeit this is not the case with Hemingway, but still, the point should be made. - Syric, on 07/12/2009, -7/+18I fail to see how this negatively affects his badassery.
Wasting the USSR's time is the great American pastime. - alanocu, on 07/11/2009, -5/+16Certainly adds a new element to what is known about Papa Hemingway.
- inactive, on 07/12/2009, -1/+11Installing puppet governments in south and central America is sooooo cool. I bet you own two CIA Running tops. and are drooling etc etc.
you get the drift. - Gwyddyon, on 07/12/2009, -0/+10Certain aspects of the Republican side had the moral high ground. The POUM, for instance. I don't think you could really say the same of the Stalinists (who the USSR armed almost exclusively, rather than helping the Marxists, Trotskyists, and others on the Republican side).
- snarkastic, on 07/12/2009, -0/+9A truly excellent source. Your problem is?
- ftwb, on 07/12/2009, -0/+9Yes, I can. Can you say, tired meme?
- inactive, on 07/12/2009, -1/+9The Old Man and the KGB
- kingcam, on 07/12/2009, -2/+10That is because the Republicans were clearly the holders of the moral high ground in the Spanish Civil war. The USSR armed them to fight against the Fascists, actaully a pretty admirable thing.
- TheTrueSora, on 07/12/2009, -0/+8In Soviet Russia, Digg mature you!
- kingcam, on 07/12/2009, -0/+8Apparently he was so useless that the book speculates that he may have been using the talks he had with the KGB as literary research.
- anonymousmedic, on 07/11/2009, -1/+9In the words of the great Liberty Prime: Communism is Death!
- SadMartigan, on 07/12/2009, -1/+8No wonder he ate his gun.
(or did he have it fed to him?)
I still blame Abercrombie & Fitch, though. - m0llusk, on 07/12/2009, -7/+14This sounds like an excuse for ongoing harassment by the FBI which ruined the quality of the last years of Hemingway's life. If he didn't actually do any spying then he was not a spy or a failed spy, just another example of an American citizen who was hounded by his own government at great expense to the taxpayers and possibly even history.
- Claverhouse, on 07/12/2009, -0/+6That's the only contest he ever wanted to win.
"What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke ?” -- Gore Vidal. - TheCollective00, on 07/12/2009, -7/+13Seriously? You called out some who censored themself saying "*****?"
- inactive, on 07/12/2009, -1/+7Which Miller are you referring to, Arthur or Henry? Oh hell, not like it matters. You think the point of Hemingway and Faulkner is to be the most depressing. You're obviously an idiot.
- A-money, on 07/12/2009, -1/+7->czar /= communist russia
- tech42er, on 07/12/2009, -1/+7KUKBAHLAM only likes good, optimistic literature where the good guys always win, like Twilight or Harry Potter.
- askthellama, on 07/12/2009, -2/+8Hemingway is also well known for being an undercover for the CIA. So who knows what counter work they wanted him to do. His life in this regard is well shrouded in mystery.
- Syric, on 07/12/2009, -1/+7Depressing? Try touching.
- Syric, on 07/12/2009, -0/+5Remember that Hemingway pretty much invented brevity.
- freediverx, on 07/12/2009, -4/+9Crummy novels? I take it you're more comfortable cuddling up to a copy of Mein Kampf.
- dent42, on 07/12/2009, -0/+5That's because the horse was named Agro, not Argo, you lunatic.
- inactive, on 07/11/2009, -1/+6For the bread line is a movable feast
- inactive, on 07/12/2009, -0/+5Why did you assume he read a non-English version?
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