To this day, The Old Man and The Sea I find captivating.
Yeah, he was always smuggling fishy stories to Americans!
I can recognize a red herring a mile away, and expect nothing less from Litwin, but this video was actually rather entertaining, if lightweight. Hemingway did indeed do what little he could for both Soviet and U.S. intelligence during our WWII alliance against fascism.
Ernest Hemingway (and George Orwell) both supported the Spanish Republic in its losing battle against General Franco’s rebelling North African army, and German & Italian fascist troops. Of course the West’s great “democracies” did
nothing to help Spain in this precursor theatre of WWII, while the Soviets sent arms, but unfortunately also KGB assassins, who killed prominent anti-Stalinist & anti-fascist leaders.
The great George Orwell became a lifelong anti-Stalinist Democratic Socialist as a result of his experience in Spain. Hemingway was far less politically astute or active. But he understood as a WWI veteran the angst of the “Lost Generation.” He was an artist and literary celebrity above all, and not a political writer and thinker like Orwell. Hemingway was indeed investigated and watched closely by the FBI during and after the McCarthy period, and his suicide in 1961 seems in part to have resulted from this pressure and his own paranoia.