Guernica by Picasso with Some Help From Franco and Hitler
by The Basque town of Guernica was bombed by Hitler’s Condor Regiment. They flew over the town on market day and dropped bombs on the defenceless people below. This act of inhumane carnage produced one of the greatest paintings in the world – Guernica by Picasso…
The Basque town of Guernica was bombed by Hitler’s Condor Regiment. They flew over the town on market day and dropped bombs on the defenceless people below. This act of inhumane carnage produced one of the greatest paintings in the world – Guernica by Picasso…
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Guernica by Picasso depicts the horrors of war. A tapestry copy of the painting was removed from the UN before war on Iraq was proclaimed. Knowing scenes like that depicted were about to be sanctioned it was deemed politic to remove the painting before unleashing George W Bush’s and Tony Blair’s “Shock and Awe” the first wave of bombs and missiles which were unleashed on Baghdad.
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Tony Blair and George Bush.
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“Yo Blair! Thanks for all your help killing all those innocent people – we showed our opponents that we could be just as evil as them… but on a much bigger scale” said George W Bush on 13th January 2009
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