The Spanish Civil War | Anarchism, Communism, Falangism, Liberalism, Monarchism | Polandball History
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💬Learn about the Spanish Civil War, Nationalists, Republicans, Anarchists, Basques, Communist, Liberals, Carlists, Requetes, Peter Kemp, George Orwell, the Army of Africa, Francisco Franco and the humanities at large with CallMeEzekiel in this fun and informative video presented in the Polandball/Countryball style.
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Can you mention Spanish Renovation next time? or maybe do a short video on them?
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Could list the names of the music you used in this video? Specifically the songs beginning at 16:34 & 19:24. It would be appreciated!
hoi 4 soundtrack. The backbone of every historical channel .
They know their audience
Who else would watch these?
@@deutschesmanutter1395 the same target audience as Big Bang Theory
@@JustF4211 I certainly hope not
@@spiffygonzales5160 you think *way* too highly of yourself- bazinga
"Saving your army by air-dropping turkeys" sounds like a great Thanksgiving movie.🦃
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Fun fact: My country, Brazil, sponsored both sides of the civil war. The brazilian President Vargas hoped that by doing that he would have good relations with whoever won the conflict.
It worked?
"I'm playing both sides so that I always come out on top" - Brazilian president Vargas, probably
Didn't Vargas at the time declare neutrality?
@@Leo-ok3uj yes, perfectly
@@pannik_lucas basically he declared support for the republicans, but then began sending covert aid to the nationalists in form of food.
"The Republicans don't even need outside help to loose" - one of my favourite hoi4 event comments.
Because a country looking inward can easily make mistakes. I have more I'll say after the video is over, but it could be said for a lot of things, if you manage them badly it's going to seem like it was inevitable, right?
@@dsxa918 Did you hav more to say after the video was over?
@@dsxa918 Hi, we're still waiting. Did you have anything to say?
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you forgot that the nationalist also had their lot of foreign volunteers , which lead to really funny situation like the Irish volunteers being both in Republican and Nationalist camps
you could make a whole video really with how wacky the foreign volunteer issue was
like you had 300 random communist chinese who came to fight for the republican side while their country was in the whole warlord era
Also veterans of the white army from the Russian civil war
We dont like to talk about the Irishmen who volunteered for the Nationalists, and we have nothing to be proud of. They were drunks and unfit for service and never saw action, while Frank Ryan and the 15th International Brigade are revered in song and legend here
@@padraig6200 fight for international cause
gets violated by internationals
appropriate
@@padraig6200 Meh, still better than fighting for communists
"I am convinced that Spani is the strongest country in the world. Century after century of trying to destroy itself but no success."
I agree, Otto. I agree with you totally.
He didnt say that tho
@@xiangonzalezbello5305 No, no lo dijo. Es similar a las feases de Churchill que nunca dijo el propio Churchill pero se utiliza como argumento de autoridad
Carlists detested Falangists so intensely that a soldier wrote a letter to his girlfriend in which he expressed his eagerness to kill all the 'reds' before moving on to the 'blues,' referring to the blue shirts worn by the Falangists
A certified Requete moment
I can confidently say that the hate was mutual.
Normal.
Blues are just right side socialist
Monarchist and conservatives hate them.
Yeah, my father told me that his uncke who took part in the conquest of barcelona after the basque capitulated and a good chunck of their army was forced to choose death or joining the nationalist, that he was in a bar with a carlist and that when a falangist group came he was told to leave and as he was leaving he heared gunshots, so yeah, they hated each other to death
@@jonC1208 Yes, the only reason the Carlist didn't started a Civil War in the Nationalist side is because of their loyalty to the King. His last orders before being exiled from Spain by Franco were to stop doing party work, and work for Spain and to resume party work only after the war was won.
Fun fact: Francisco Franco was the youngest general of Europe at that time, he was only 33 years old.
Me repites ese numerin?
33?
Franco born in 1892...¿?¿?¿?
@@erpepelu8151 en efecto
He was the youngest everything. The Spanish right is really odd. Traditionally it is the left and liberals who fillip merit promotions in the military but it was actually the Africanistas who joined the Nationalists that were competent. Add to this the genuine desire for social improvement (For example trade unions went to Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, 2nd Marquis of Estella to arbitrate between the employers and the workers. He could not get enough money as taxing the rich was difficult so he just took loans.), it makes for an eclectic mixture.
The Spanish Civil War is one of the most significant and interesting conflicts in the pre-World War II period. It also basically became a testing ground for both the Soviets, and the Germans and Italians
Thats really overrated and influenced because we know whay happened later.
Stalin order kill all the soviets were here.
They didnt learn anything here because it.
So for an late allied nation and 2 axis nations alltough italy later changed sides
I hope you continue to cover the Spanish Civil War, we’re sorely lacking in good, high-quality content on the subject.
You tell, me.
I'm still waiting for some good video about the Italian Unification and civil war.
@@piotrcarafa7993 so true.
I wouldn't call CallMeEzekiel a very trust worthy historical content
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@Th3 n00b Animat0r l0l Marxism is garbage in all honesty. Get over it.
This is the only war where Mexico directly supported a faction. I don’t even know why, Mexico was still super Catholic and Mexico had never sent weapons as aid to anyone ever before.
The mexican state was secular at that time (still is) since the mexican Revolution. The mexican state was sympathetic to leftist causes across the americas and spain under the president Cardenas.
Also, the state had fought a war against catholic militias in Mexico (the cristeros insurgency) under the president Plutarco Calles.
It's because the government in Mexico at the time was socialist and radically anti-clerical. Ten years before the civil war in Spain, Mexico had their own civil war, called the Cristero War or the Cristiada, which was a catholic rebellion against the government because they basically made it illegal to be catholic.
The PRI during its early years was a relatively leftist party, only becoming a less ideologically consistent organization bent on keeping power later, so I would say it's not so surprising
An authoritarian leftist leaning government took over after Civil War(s).
por que el dedo de dios lo escribio
This war really reminds me of the Sullan-Marian Civil Wars, two factions with large but ineffective armies going at each other on the mainland while a smaller but extremely elite and veteran army returned from campaigning and completely outclasses everyone, followed by a military dictatorship by the leader of said army.
The nationalists had the Requetes and Foreign Legion even without the army of Africa
@@def3ndr887 Yeah, you're right, but I still think it's a valid comparison, with both Sulla and the Nationalists being outnumbered at the beginning but increasingly getting stronger and stronger.
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@@def3ndr887 The Requetés were not formally instructed army units, it was a militia, and the Foreign Legion was a part of the Army of Africa
Spain’s anarchistic movement was; I need a drink. 🦃
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Kronos
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And it's really interesting looking at our modern social fabric in comparison to all these
Interesting is a word so very appropriate thanks. 🎉
Not really.
He said in comparison, not that we're the same.
Their social fabric was better
I'm so glad they talked about the Turkey landings 🦃
I once heard an anecdote where there was a unit of Republicans being assaulted by Nationists, and they found another Republican tank column moving up a road, so they flagged them down and asked for support. The officer in charge of the tank column asked to see their Communist Party membership cards/papers, and when the messenger replied they didn't have any, but they needed support, the tank commanders said they only supported Spaniards who were carded party members and they threatened to run the messenger over if he didn't get out of their way. So he let them go, to then watch them move about a quarter of a mile up the road and get decimated by Nationist artillery that was shelling the first unit but changed targets when they saw tanks.
"You get what you fucking deserve!"
Instant Karma
In one corner we have Spain, in the other we have…Spain, in another corner there’s…Spain, and in the last one, you’ll never guess, is Spain!
Oh, you are a Carlist? List all the cars.
@@SwePol Chad Carlist Enjoyer
@@SwePol Dacia?
@Swedish Nationalist Yeah, but what about the models?
As a Spaniard, I found the history displayed here really great. The video in itself is really enjoyable.
who would you have supported?
This is a fun question! I'd like to tackle this from 3 different prespectives. Those being:
-If I was like my family
-If I existed in a situation relatively equivalent to my current
-If I was a foreigner
The first scenario.
At the time. my family at the time were peasants from a small village between mountain passes close to the Portuguese border. They had little education, they could write to a fairly acceptable level but could occassionally struggle and had bad handwriting. They mostly dedicated themselves to farm in the generally bad earth of the area for food and some of them were village buildiers. I've heard my great grandfather was of republican ideology but I don't believe this was a major issue in my family at the time.
This village fell under the nationalist zone, so my great grandfather was conscripted. Fortunately he didn't fall to a combat role but as a field engineer, which sounds like a really nice title and job but his task was to construct bridges so that soldiers and mechanized units could cross rivers.
Second scenario
Thanks to the migration of my grandparents and my parent, I am fortunate to live in Madrid in a status that I believe would be considered at the time as 'bourgoise'. Comfortable whit collar lives in a nice home with many commodities. I'd follow my own ideas, which to shorten it is economically liberal, socially moderate socialist and politically parliamentary monarchy. I think that in such a position I'd be able to migrate in the days of the coup. I could be compelled to follow the nationalists due to potential monarchist ideals, but they're too far anti-democratic. The republican government is very appealing, however as it falls to communism, I wouldn't support that.
I'd say I could support the rule of law and the republic at the beginning but as it falls to the claws of the radical left and the nationalists take a more conservative rather than fasict approach, I'd try to switch allegiances.
Third scenario
Ideally, I'd stay out. It's a bloody wa for hell's sakes r and foreigners received specially bad treatment if captured from both sides.
Let's say I do join, I wouldn't go for the Republic. I've got not allegiance to it's law and most if its army was filled with socialists. With the Nationalists I wouldn't go with fascists, that's for sure. I'd prefer a more moderate approach as the international brigade was probably meant to offer, but it was a joke. Personally, the best course of action is to follow in Peter Kemp's footsteps and join the Requetes. They're a bit too fundamentalist for my liking but they always had a social aspect and monarchy.
Those are my answers to this question. How about you?
whats the song he uses to transition into the 3 minute mark? I keep trying to listen to the lyrics to pick it up but I cant find the song he uses to transition into talking about the crown. As a Spaniard who understands the lyrics I pressume you actually know.
What I appreciate about Ezekiel's videos is that he doesn't shy away from mentioning some of the horrible things done during these kind of event.
Especially details like at *18:40*
Pretty important to know the horrible things, keeps you from learning with a rose-tinted lens
He doesn't mention however that many times the Nationalists did the same to female Republican sympathizers though
Also most of the attacks on the Church were carried out by Anarchists and diverse mobs, not by the Communist Party
@@alexgaelsotorodriguez3870 As with every historical video, watch out for unconscious biases. He did mention both red and white terrors, but could've went into more detail about both of them.
@@alexgaelsotorodriguez3870 Maybe Ezekiel could've gone into more detail, but I think these videos are more for bringing attention to a subject and have people do their own diverse research.
I am Spanish, and the time before war was terrible. My great-grandfather was close to being murdered by the reds when they entered his office building only because he wore a hat, and that was "a rich thing". He escaped through the window, coming down a pipe.
Hey, a spaniard here. This is an awesome video! I wanted to clarify that it's not José Antonio Primavera, but José Antonio Primo de Rivera. Keep up the good work!
Holy shit this entire war is such a manifestation of spanish culture.
In what way?
@@azmob8909 en que somos gilipollas
@@azmob8909 It’s a mess
@@ardian-8Spain has the greatest Empire ever. We are not a mess, we are spanish
@@malal6891same thing
The Spanish civil war is my third favorite. Behind U.S and Russian civil war.
This is the only one of those 3 where the good guys won
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I agree with you on the Russian civil war.
As for the US one, as a proud southerner who has a rebel flag... I gotta disagree. While I believe the south would have ended slavery eventually, and while the reconstruction and end of slavery were most certainly not friendly to blacks (and the US didn't exactly help that)
I will say that having a combined nation rather than two rival/neutral nations made us into a global superpower. While it's definitely bs how people treat anybody who's proud to be from the south, I still think ultimately it was for the better.
@@spiffygonzales5160 If the union and confederacy stayed rivals/neutral powers after the civil war, I wonder if they would eventually, if at all, reunite later on. Maybe in this hypothetical scenario, ww2 still occurs which pushes for reunification🤔. Much to wonder.
@@martinguerra5152 Yeah no, the ideal outcomes would be:
- Anarchists won in Spain
- Democrats prevail in Russia
- The north wins in the US
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-the disorganized oppresors?
-the non existent?
-the centralists?
yeah... no
I think it is quite interesting about foreign intervention, especially involving Portugal. One of my grandfathers served in the Civil War on the side of the nationalist, with the Carlists specifically since my grandfather was a staunch monarchist, but this wasn't why he joined the war. Maybe you will later mention this in a future episode but, at least from what my grandfather told me and what his journals said during the time, he counde't care for what the nationalists were fighting for but as long as the Republican factions did not win. I specifically remember in one conversation I had with him in his final months, in which one sentence stood out to me, in which he said; "You cannot understand, I fought at the Battle of Lys with the brits and I saw were dreams led. I saw what ideolergy does to boys, I saw what dreams can excuse men of barbaric acts, I saw what the price was too as i saw men butchered and women R###d because the Alemanhas (Germans) fought for a dream and this excused there actions. When i look at the other side of that wire, all i see are boys who would use there ideology as an excuse."
I know this is'int really relevant to the whole discussion, but i just wanted to share a story that might give some insight into the time for people interested into why people join the war.
I remember reading that most Spanish Conservatives but especially Carlists were really skeptical of Ideology being the main driving force of government. It seems odd now since today Ideology seems to be the main sticking point in politics today
@@cirinopatino2076 Most of the carlist, if not all, they fought because their priest said so
@@JamesFTW1 You are indeed correct, In my grandfather's Journals, he always complained about his unit Caplian (how he nicknamed "Monte de merda') and the attitude of the Priets. He was Catholic, but he hated the Spanish Clergy as he saw them as hyperacute for prasing soldiers to kill their fellow countrymen with enthusiasm.
@@crusader9054 interesting detail, love the nickname lmao
@@cirinopatino2076, I think this is true, again my Grandfather was really ashamed of his service in the civil war and thus only really spoke about what he saw rather than his beliefs (Though there are exceptions like the reason he joined the civil war in the first place, the clergy and military leadership). But from what he told me and from his journals, most of the people that fought for the nationalists were scared of communism but both the Falangismt and Carlists were the exceptions as both had a clear ideology they wanted to follow and enforce a particular Ideology. I am not saying you wrong of course, but that was my grandfather's own opinion on the matter from what he understood.
Ezekiel, you make, by far, some of the best content I watch on youtube, and I always get excited each time you post a video. Seemingly the video quality increases with each upload. Please continue with your amazing work and content.
I hope you follow your usual pattern and stick with the Spanish civil war for a few more videos-id love to see more focused videos for each faction of the war.
This video is amazing. I'm from Spain and have been learning about the Spanish civil war for years but still got new insights here. Thank you!
A Spanish Republican exile in Mexico named Alberto Bayo would later go on to train Fidel Castro and his Communist M-26 movement in Mexico and become a General in the Communist Cuban Army after Castro's Communist victory.
Who would have guessed?
@@johnnotrealname8168 Yep what a fkng negative reverberation.
Hello, I'm spanish from Spain and I'm studying for the university acces test. This day I've been stuying the spanish civil war and I'm glad to see this summary of this war. You make a great job, keep going!
Assuming all sources are accurate, It’s still crazy to me how both sides were all over the place ideologically. The Right wing being anti-capitalist in many ways with the most extreme faction being both far left and right while the left wing was flirting with anarchism and featured a secessionist movement amongst their ranks.
It just goes to show the paradigms where one grows up is rarely universal. Any attempts to find a 1 for 1 comparison with you own situation; wherever you may live, will likely be met with disappointment.
It’s almost magical, like seeing a mirror version of yourself that is so familiar yet so different at the same time.
Fascism was a pro-worker movement. In Portugal they were pushing for better worker legislation. The Right in Spain was also full of the best Generals, Africanistas who rose through merit promotions.
Depressing that videos like this one give way more info in a more entertaining manner than any history class I've ever taken
Edit: I just NEEDED to add that, as a basque myself, dude, that basque is on point!! most videos here on youtube make basic ortography mistakes and don't bother checking whether they wrote it correctly. props to you!
"The international volunteers", used for propaganda purposes, for show, with no actual military use, man those things never change.
Fr bro
Yep its the same in ukraine
4:07 Even Franco got shot in this event. It was on the 28-29th of June 1916 when he was ordered to commence an offensibe aginst the Rif Republic's forces.
Where did spains gold go?!?!?!?!???? (Totally not to the U.S.S.R)
Stalin's personal bank account. Those armoured Rolls Royce weren't going to pay for themselves
Well it was a fucking payment?
To the USSR... There was a small fraction that went to Mexico too
19:17 when the fate of a nation is decided by a tabletop session of W40k...
Excellent work as always. Just finished "Mine were of trouble" today, glad to know more context about the wider situation in Spain.
Im actually about halfway through Homage to Catalonia after watching his comparison of the two, im going to read Kemps account after
Cant get enough of Videos like this.
Would love to know how you make Videos like this and/or lernen it.
My greatgrandfather was killed in Andalusia by the nationalists because he was a socialist leaving my greatgrandmother with 8 kids and without a house.
8 kid's? Holy moly you're grandpa sperm must be A+
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That’s a good start.
Skill issue
Sorry for your then family, the people here can joke easily since they’re behind a screen and never have to live the horrors of reality. Salute to him.
As a Basque that just studied this in school like a month ago, it's cool to see how you explained it, because it wasn't framed like that at all here. Plus I legit thought about every other province fought on it's own, not only the Basque Country (non national, that is).
How was it portrayed in the Basque Country?
@@The_Soviet_Onion well, the Basque government is portrayed as defending the republic and its ideals more broadly, not just to preserve autonomy (although that plays a big part too). It is also remarked how in the Basque Country it was a civil war within a civil war, as roughly half of the Basque Country (Bizkaia, Gipuzkua and the Northern parts of Navarra) sided with the republic, whilst the other half (Alaba and the rest of Navarra) sided with the nationals.
@@The_Soviet_Onion the basques were really divided in what to do, pnv and the carlist were ideologically the same baring republic or monarchy points mostly.
We are mostly told about the basque side of the war only whike the rest is not examinated.
As a basque, the 20th century was tough, first the civil war, then our lenguage being ilegalizated by franco and our culture persecuted in broad terms. Then ETA was formed, a t@rrorist group that made us no friends in spain, the pick of their power was in the last years of franco where ETA was strong enough to kill the spanish pm carrero blanco, second only to franco.
After franco died the basque political sphere was a complete and utter mess, pnv returned and had around 40% support, the socialist party had around 30% and parties derivated from ETA, which still operated, had around 30% support.
Also spain was again a monarchy of the non carlist line, carlism after franco has nearly collpased so they arent relevant anymore.
After around 20 more years of terrorism and spanish counterterrorism, most leaders of those operations were jailed for abusing power and a dirty war against ETA, most basque people were fed up with the hole political chaos and ETA lost most of it support and dispanded in the 2000s.
Hope that was a good overview of basque history in the civil war and after.
@@thequantumcat184 importante tener en cuenta que muchos vascos eran carlistas desde el siglo 19
"Is the basques saw themselves as a separate people from the spanish"
I mean, technically we have our own language (basque, which isn't related to any of the surrounding languages, since its non indoeuropean) and culture, as well as being an ethnicity, with some being in france (specifically in Lapurdia, Zuberoa and Lower Navarre).
Also; Im quite surprised by the correct grammar in basque around 14:10
People from Czechoslovakia also went to fight in Spain, while the vast majority of them were among the supporters of the Spanish Republic and joined the so-called international brigades. The number of interbrigadists was around 2,500 people.
In Spain, there were even predominantly Czechoslovak units, such as T. G. Masaryk's infantry battalion, Jožka Májko's artillery battery, Klement Gottwald's anti-aircraft battery and Jan Ámos Komenský's field hospital.
Much respect the czechoslovaks fighters for freedom. I did an essay about them last year, very brave men.
@@danielmouzootero4353 sucks they lost lol bozos
No way someone who covers both sides without devolving into biased drivel? Gigachad
Franco was the best outcome
All others are crazy and did not care about Spain's ways of being, tradition and heritage (like Republicans deleting religious people)
Ahh gotta love seeing 🦃 airdropped into your besieged monastery
This is a pretty good summary about the civil war, I greatly appreciate it, specially because my great great grandfather was the leader of the united left in Navarre
0:17 And the Melilla garrison in fact was the first to rise up against the Central Government due to Coronel Juan Seguí persuading General Romerales.
This was my first callmeEzkiel video and I loved it and I still love this video
The Spanish civil war has always fascinated me. Thank you for making another video about it.
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This video is so well-made! You earned a subscriber
19:23 really hit home for me
The thumbnail has changed twice and it got better each time
Something important is that falange wasn't monarchist. They support a nationalistic religious republic as Iran today.
Yes
This was excellent, please cover Mikhail Krassnof and Operation Keelhaul
I have seen some theories that the Soviets didn't want Spain to go full communist but to be a left leaning Republic that could be used as a sort of political middleman when dealing with Western powers.
I love the new style of presenting this information, your videos have been rising in quality.
also obligatory tukey emoji:🦃
🦃 A Turkey for the heroes of Spain! Viva la Hispania! 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸
Honor and grlory to those who fall dedending their faith and the fatherland. Viva España
This is such a channel! You are so underrated.
The video is frankly good, though I would like to point out a few caveats:
First of all, Primo de Rivera's coup was supported by the monarchy. After the 1870s republican experience, and specially after the 1898 disaster, the "Restauración" made it so that the King wasn't in clear support of a specific political party, for that was what had brought down the previous government. Therefore, the King was some sort of garanteur of the bipartisan political stablishment, and also was very linked with the army, in fact the King at the time, Alphonse XIII was known as "El Africanista".
This made was the reason why the disaster of 1921, the Annual Disaster was so important. If the army lost its credibility, the King and the political stablishment would lost it too. Therefore the King sanctioned the coup de etat of Primo de Rivera in an effort of maintaining the monarchy.
Secondly, about the ousting of the monarchy, that's a funny business. The election that brought it down wasn't supposed to be some sort of political referendum. The military dictatorship was exhausted and the King and his political cabinet, once again, wanting to preserve the monarchy at all costs, decided to get rid of it and return to the bipartisan political stablishment. The idea was to build up the government from the local level, up to the provincial, and finally the national. This was because in the previous years the power of the bipartisan moderate parties, Cánovas's Conservative Party, and Sagasta's Liberal Party had been ensured through the ingrained corruption of the elections in Spain, specially the figure of the "Cacique" which ensured the vote towards this parties in the rural parts of Spain.
Yet, in this local elections, the candidates started labelling themselves as "monarchists". This wasn't needed, it hadn't been done before and it was kind of stupid. The Republican candidates capitalised on the opportunity and labeled themselves as republican.
When the election ended, although there was a majority monarchist vote, and though the election was non-binding, the King and his cabinet realized that in the cities and major urban zones the Republican candidates had won.
This meant that, were further elections to be carried out, the "Turno", meaning, the bipartisan system, wouldn't be posible, and the monarchy would be in danger.
Therefore the King just straight up left, taking with him the legitimacy that his figure provided, which would be q reason behind the Republic's instability.
Finally I would like to add that 1936's coup de etat wasn't by any means the first one. Before it many others had taken place, most famously general Sanjurjo's one, but also others such as general's Barrera.
This makes me wanna learn to code just for the soul purpose of making a Spanish civil war overhaul for hoi4. It quite literally is a mini ww2 and everyone is involved and it could give some good buffs to each of the major Warring powers (of ww2) and even has some good alternate history potential
Your vids never disappoint
More detail here on the securing of food supplies. The Victorious Counterrevolution: The Nationalist Effort in the Spanish Civil War (Michael Seidman) Covers how Franco would get supplied by farmers without resort to looting.
So was Spain essentially a beyblade stadium, all four sides let it rip and Fascism came out on top?
hey at least this fascism was still a conservative and a devout Catholic Religious bunch. 2 thing that Hitler or Mussolini abandoned for their ideal of socialism.
Never I see it was Catholic faith( plus conservative ) was the only thing that keep the Nationalism united unlike the Republic faction.
The Falange were a shell of themselves by the end, Franco made sure of that. I would hardly say the Fascists came out on top.
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@@thanhhoangnguyen4754Catholicism is based that's why. ¡Viva Christo Rey!
Love your vids :)
14:40 I just noticed you put battle plans there lol
9:38 The Chaplain did not realize that the Litany of Hate only works on melee attacks.
My grand granduncle fought in the war and was captured by the reds, and he was 1 year and a half in a prisoner camp (concentration basically) in Albacete . They basically never feed him, and was tortured. When the final offensive happen the guards just left, and the communist gurd were force to not kill the prisoners to avoid future problems. He stayed in the town until the nacional army arrive and save them. In Spain no-one speak of republicans barbaries
There is a extreme level of revitionism that has started since the rice of PODEMOS and the new PSOE in the XXI century. Funny enough, that radicalism has create a equivalent in the right: Vox
They need too because the modern government is set on destroying Nationalist monuments and Glorifying the reds
Franco didn’t go far enough.
@@The_Tuareg ok edgelord
@@sinistersweet5236 cope.
thanks to the thumbnail I can't help but hear the demon days album songs while the video plays
Fun, interesting, and underrated video 🦃
Fun fact the natonalists while more united than republicans still hated each other for example after the war ended carlist held a mass but it was bombed by falangists because they did not want the church to hold power in the country
The carlists and falangists, despite their differences, could still at least somewhat tolerate each other since they generally had similar socially conservative and reactionary beliefs. The different republican factions however could not. A conservative monarchy and conservative military dictatorship are far more similar than a capitalist democratic republic, a socialist state and an anarchist society.
That's not totally true. Both sides were catholic, the difference was in the actual political ideology, since falangists wanted a syndacalist state while carlists wanted the monarchy back. Also, the event you mentioned probably happened not because of anti-church sentiment, but because the falangists had been provoked.
Just wanted to try make some clarity👍🏻
@@kaiservonpanzer213falangists were neither reactionaries nor conservatives, they were revolutionaries. They despised both the left and the right, and wanted to establish a national-syndacalist state. It was Franco that changed the whole ideology so not to divide the nationalist front (thus making the falange just another right wing conservative party that would support his regime)
@@lancio8635 Exactly. OP makes it sound like the Falange was anti church when they weren't. They were/are proud Catholics
Great video 👍🏼- it’s crazy to see how little politics in Spain has actually changed since then 😂
there's no falangists or communists nowadays
@@WillySalami *FO and Vox extreme factions looking at eachother*
@@menk4 Uh, no.
FO is still a pretty fringe faction in politics, though it is on the rise. Also, FO is not communist and while it has radical marxist-leninist elements, like it's very leader, communism is pretty secondary.
And VOX is just your average National-Conservative party.
It's more extreme wing may be considrered Neofalangist? Maybe. I would rather call them "Pseudofalangist", though I think they are more similar to some sort of Idealized Neofrancoists.
@@WillySalamiThe Falange still exists thankfully
Why isn’t this channel getting more recognition!!
I know how it ends and I'm still hyped! 😁🙌
11:57 Ah Spain, you truly are something.
Gotta mention Demon Days being the thumbnail
The Hoi4 soundtrack improved the video a lot for me lol. But seriously great video!
An interesting tidbit is that the Falange's executed leader was a son of the old military dictator, Primo de Rivera.
Wow a largely unbiased breakdown of the Spanish Civil War, this is great.
Not going to lie man I'd love to have a conversation with you I've been into Anthropology political science and all sorts like it and I really enjoy your content 😁
I'm still in the middle of reading Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell.. 😅
Nice video 👍👍
It would be really cool videos talking about National Liberalism and Conservative Liberalism.
4:14 The fact he uses the flag of Morocco, which had nothing to do with the battle and war instead of the rif republic who they actually fought makes me die inside a little. I'm guessing it's a error
It's the modern equivalent of the region. Like using the modern Greek flag for ancient Greeks.
@@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts even so, you wouldnt use the turkish flag for the hitties or the modern Iranian flag for early persian empires. Plus they were berbers
It is very simple, he literally explained that Moroccans in the Army of Africa were used as light infantry. The modern moroccan flag is just used to represent them.
@@thatdoppioguy1825 No, that is in other parts of the video, but that one specific part he is refering to the Rif Republic beating the spanish. Berber Riffians in a Rif Republic state, not Moroccans.
Spanish civil war the actual battle royal before fortnite took over
@@SwePol not much Russian civil war was just Red army streemrolling to the entire Siberia while white army continue to infighting
@@SwePol but in the end they all were crushed quite easily
@@SwePol unlike Spain where it was an battle between two teams filled with different factions. In Russia factions really didn't matter since at the end of the day everyone was againt the Red army even the russian socialists cooperated with the white army
@@SwePol the Red army and Ukraine anarchist movement did have a limited cooperation but that was it. Infighting has played am huge role since every leftist have an different interpretation of "revolution" while the right wings more easily cooperated with each other since they all hated the leftist pig "ruining" their nation culture and religion
@@Trollge398 you would be talking about the Mensheviks who where not opposed to the Conservatives in the white armies. Compared to the Bolsheviks who were entirely anti capitalist.
Very nice video.
Is anyone gonna talk about Turkey being in the center of the screen with prop wings and turkey head on them at 8:10?
We are so back Ezekiel bros 🦃
20:59 Mexico was really in a good shape during the presidency of Lazaro Cardenas.
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0:09 This is true.
I had no idea so many feathered Americans participated in air operations! 🦃
I love how the civil war feels like the most TNO shit ever, but was 100% real
I hate advertisements they're annoying and I know I'm never going to use them but I got to say that was an awesome way to introduce grand news
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Nice turkey emoji
That thumbnail is hard asf
Random question but has the thumbnail changed once and is now back to what it was?
Great vid btw
a great vid ezekiel, but what's that music playing when your describing the politics and what situation, what's the music's that played?
I've tried to find it but no luck, I know its hearts of iron (or I presume it is), I just don't know the name, once again, great vid, perhaps in the future, in your descriptions you can add the music names, seriously you find and use good stuff
"As God is my witness, I thought Turkeys could Fly" Arthur Carlson, General Manager WKRP, Cincinnati, OH.
🦃🦃🦃This particular civil war somehow seams very relevant for no particular reason!🦃🦃🦃
- I'm talking notes on the turkey thing
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Good video
Well heres an acutal fun fact tho, theres a song that sometimes kids sing and it goes along with the spanish anthem