Word: rearechelon
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...their effectiveness in battle, the brigades were an international showpiece. Also, except for the Communists among them, who presumably knew what they were doing, they were all betrayed by Moscow; the volunteers discovered, mostly too late, that they were conscripts in a Communist task force with the most loathsome rearechelon apparatus in the history of warfare-with political commissars, kangaroo courts, execution squads and torture cells. The international brigades so provided a fair percentage of the number (more than 7,000) killed in the civil war behind the lines. In this figure, Thomas credits the Loyalists with being twice...
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