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What is a fifth column? For that matter, what are the preceding four columns?
by ebb_earl_co 1y ago
What is a fifth column? For that matter, what are the preceding four columns?
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- fifilura 1y agoA fifth column is a group of embedded traitors. I am not sure the word is suitably used here. Franco (loosely). "We'll be marching towards Madrid in four columns. The fifth column is already in the city".
- ebb_earl_co 1y agoAs in Francisco Franco? Thank you for the definition and some bonus etymology!
- fifilura 1y agoYep same guy, during spanish civil war in the 1930s
- vincnetas 1y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_column https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_column A fifth column is a group of people who undermine a larger group or nation from within, usually in favor of an enemy group or another nation.
- DonHopkins 1y ago[flagged]