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In "Homage to Catalan" Orwell describes the people of Anarchist Catalonia as referring to each other as "comrade" (rather than "señor" or "señora"). Would the people of Catalonia have actually used this English word, or a Spanish translation of it?

by /u/brokensilence32 in /r/AskHistorians

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