This is an image from Belchite la Vieja, a small ghost town outside of Zaragoza that has ruins that date as early as the 14th century. In an effort to keep nationalist forces from taking Zaragoza during the Spanish Civil War, republicans treated Belchite as a line of demarcation and took it in a bloody, house-by-house, street-by-street battle, piling corpses up at the gates of the city. Franco left it as a monument to the bravery of his allies and villainy of his opponents and built a replacement city, Belchite la Nueva, next to the ruins. When I went to visit, I had been under the misapprehension that Belchite was devastated by the nationalists; it left me rethinking the idea of good guys and bad guys in war. Maybe there are no good guys in a way, just bad guys doing bad things for the best of reasons — in this case democracy, science, and liberalism.