Apocalypse World War 2: Spanish Civil War, Training Ground for Countries Participating in the Second... See More
Apocalypse World War 2: Spanish Civil War, Training Ground for Countries Participating in the Second World War!
If we talk about Spain then we are talking about a country with the most unique history in the world. How can it be said that it is not unique? In fact, Mr and Sista here will know that it was not only Muslims who once ruled in their land, anarchists have also been in power and held important positions in this country. Perhaps many people already understand this ideology which was first pioneered by Bakunin, whereas from the past until now the anarchists have only looked at the government with hatred because they consider it a form of oppression against humans, so we can wonder how people can do it. Spanish anarchists took control of the country's government?
In this country, some time before the Second World War, especially in Europe, there was a classic upheaval between the socialists and the fascists between 1936 and 1939, Spain could be said to be a testing ground for an even more devastating war a few years later.
When the government together with anarchists, communists, including anarcho-syndicalist workers and socialist peasant militias united against the coup of the fascist military generals led by General Franco who received full support from Germany and Italy, later on they would return this assistance by sending blue battalions to the eastern front to help the Axis bloc against the Soviet Union, this could also be in response because during the Spanish civil war the leftists also received assistance from the communist country.
Compared to France and England, which were neutral in the war and implemented an embargo on both parties, this was very different from Adolf Hitler who focused on defending Franco from the start of the war in a country that continued to rage even though King Alfonso the 8th had resigned as leader of this country, one of the reasons was because many Spanish officers were worried about the increasing dominance of the left.
Franco, who was exiled by the socialist government to the Canary Islands, was returned home to lead reforms in that country, starting a big movement from Morocco, which was still under Spanish rule at that time, a big power that split Spain into two groups between nationalists and republicans.
However, Franco's national troops quickly succeeded in completely crushing the republicans even to their strongest base in the region of Catalonia. The help of planes and tanks from Germany and Italy were met with great difficulty by the leftists who received assistance from several international brigades and foreign units from communists from America, the Soviets and France, especially when defending the capital Madrid. These troops were very tough, Gansist, because they were even able to defend Madrid until the end of the war.
January 1939 Catalonia was controlled by Franco and with the fall of the strongest leftist base this caused all republican parties to disappear and on March 28 1939 the nationalists entered Madrid in victory, the civil war ended with the loss of up to 1 million lives in the most devastating conflict in the country.
In this war, several countries that would later fight in the second world war showed each other their respective military capabilities, perhaps it could be said that the civil war in Spain was a training ground for Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union.
Meanwhile, one of the most famous Nazi assistance in the war was the participation of Lutfwaffe warplanes in destroying the small Basque town of Guernica with a population of 5 thousand people, which from the start was neutral but was suspected of being sympathetic towards the left, after being approved by General Franco, finally several Nazi warplanes arrived at the town at 16.30 and devastated the town for 3 hours, killing a third of the Basque town's population and causing fires for days, this unprovoked and indiscriminate attack was one of the tactics that will be adopted by most of the conflicting parties in the second world war later.
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