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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The Spanish Civil War is a bit weird in nomenclature, though. The 'revolutionaries' were the fascist branches of the military and monarchists, who were mad at the leftist elected governement.

Usually revolutionaries aren't conservatives, but in the Spanish Civil War they were. Both Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin jumped at the chance to test out their offensive capabilities and sent their armies there. And it was a bloody affair where both parties slaughtered civil parties.

But Russia, for once, supported the democratically elected party in this war.

I'm not affiliated with the tankies and hate the fables they spin, but as an historian this one point really needed some context.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

But Russia, for once, supported the democratically elected party in this war.

Man, that's not even close to how it went down. The Soviet-supported PCE was all about infighting and sabotaging other members of the Republicans for not bootlicking Stalin enough.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The ‘revolutionaries’ were the fascist branches of the military and monarchists

I mean, can it really be called any kind of "revolt," then? It's essentially just a coup that went south and spun into a civil war thanks to the CNT-FAI's intelligence networks.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hence why I put revolutionaries in quotations and felt like a little context was necessary.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago