Okay, maybe it does. As in, don't let the fascists win.
Today we cats ran across the obit of the last eyewitness to the 1937 destruction of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War — which was immortalized by Pablo Picasso in this painting. German and Italian planes, warming up for World War II, killed 1,600 civilians that day.
We're posting this as a reminder that liberal democracy is fragile, and it's important that we step up to preserve it. Today in the US, we may not have Nazis bombing our cities, but we're still in danger.
So here's a chilling reminder of how bad things can get:
"During World War II, Picasso, living in
Nazi-occupied Paris, recalled a German officer popping into his studio
to see his work and pointing to a large photograph of the Guernica
painting. Did you do that, the officer asked. 'No, you did,' replied the maestro."
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