The assault on Mariupol may not have the impact of the destruction of Guernica – the anti-Franco Basque town bombed by the German air force in 1937 duing the Spanish Civil War, and the subject of the most widely-recognised anti-fascist painting by Picasso. But there will be many more shattered cities like Mariupol and each one will have schools and bomb shelters blown apart with the dead and wounded instantly pictured on cellphones and sent around the world. More
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