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Date of upload: Mar 25, 2024 ^^
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Some inaccuracies/omissions:
-Falange was by no means popular or relevant enough before the war. During its entire parliamentary existence the number of seats they got I believe could be counted with one hand. It was during the war, especially after Primo de Rivera's execution at the hands of the Republicans that Franco martyrised and instrumentalised the Falange for his own popularity.
-The Communists had actually two camps: the Stalinist and the POUM (who were accused of being trotskyites but they themselves denied this)
-The Falange itself also had two camps: the Falange herself (led by Primo de Rivera) and the JONS (national syndicalists led by Ledesma Ramos), they united before the war. Primo would be shot by the Republicans while Ledesma would even after the war continue acting as a dissident Falangist to Franco's "Frankenstein monster" that was the FET de las JONS which was a somewhat forced union between the Carlists (traditionalist monarchists) and the already mixed Falange de las JONS.
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Good video, it summarizes situation quite well. Spanish civil war is quite well known and it was very important, but it seems that in contrast to other well known civil wars people don´t usually know who fought against who and why (other than the "left against right" and that some Francisco Franco won).
I also recommend Homage to Catalonia from Orwell, it gives pretty interesting new perspective on whole conflict.
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It was german and italian support that allowed the nationalists to win. Mainly italian weapons and ammunition. The generals had not anticipated a long war and without a massive support operation their rebellion would either have been crushed or the war would have turned into one of attrition with little if any gains.
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Another thing to add to the conversation that often times gets omitted is the impact the soviet revolution had on the psyche of the spanish right. The socialist revolution and later marxist revolution was never really meant to go the way the soviets went about it, at least according to Marx. The soviet revolution was a bloody affair in a country that was by all intents and purposes, a backwater. It effectively created a new blueprint on how socialism was to be enacted and in the case of Spain, the violence was both out of hand and nearly a daily occurrence. The levels of paranoia that the right had about a soviet style civil revolution was simply inmense. Ironic that in the end, they would plunge the country in a civil war anyways, though the left did not help matters in any capacity. Just tragic all in all.
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@carloslaorden9985
1 month ago
A thing, you kept showing the Crown of Towers as a monarchist symbol, when it in fact was a Republican one. It was styled in the image of a Crown, but since the Republic obviously didn't want any monarchist iconography they replaced it with a crown made of towers instead of royal symbols
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