The Spanish Civil War | Anarchism, Communism, Falangism, Liberalism, Monarchism | Polandball History 

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hoi 4 soundtrack. The backbone of every historical channel .

"Saving your army by air-dropping turkeys" sounds like a great Thanksgiving movie.🦃

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.

"The Republicans don't even need outside help to loose" - one of my favourite hoi4 event comments.

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

I hope you continue to cover the Spanish Civil War, we’re sorely lacking in good, high-quality content on the subject.

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

"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.

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

Fun fact: Francisco Franco was the youngest general of Europe at that time, he was only 33 years old.

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.

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.

Spain’s anarchistic movement was; I need a drink. 🦃

And it's really interesting looking at our modern social fabric in comparison to all these

I'm so glad they talked about the Turkey landings 🦃

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!

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!

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*

As a Spaniard, I found the history displayed here really great. The video in itself is really enjoyable.

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.

Oh, you are a Carlist? List all the cars.

Holy shit this entire war is such a manifestation of spanish culture.

"The international volunteers", used for propaganda purposes, for show, with no actual military use, man those things never change.

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.

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 Spanish civil war is my third favorite. Behind U.S and Russian civil war.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

"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

19:17 when the fate of a nation is decided by a tabletop session of W40k...

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.

Where did spains gold go?!?!?!?!???? (Totally not to the U.S.S.R)

Ahh gotta love seeing 🦃 airdropped into your besieged monastery

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.

19:23 really hit home for me

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).

An interesting tidbit is that the Falange's executed leader was a son of the old military dictator, Primo de Rivera.

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.

Excellent work as always. Just finished "Mine were of trouble" today, glad to know more context about the wider situation in Spain.

The Spanish civil war has always fascinated me. Thank you for making another video about it. 🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃

So was Spain essentially a beyblade stadium, all four sides let it rip and Fascism came out on top?

No way someone who covers both sides without devolving into biased drivel? Gigachad

My greatgrandfather was killed in Andalusia by the nationalists because he was a socialist leaving my greatgrandmother with 8 kids and without a house.

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9:38 The Chaplain did not realize that the Litany of Hate only works on melee attacks.

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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.

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.

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🦃 A Turkey for the heroes of Spain! Viva la Hispania! 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸

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.

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

The thumbnail has changed twice and it got better each time

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

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

I love the new style of presenting this information, your videos have been rising in quality. also obligatory tukey emoji:🦃

I love how the civil war feels like the most TNO shit ever, but was 100% real

Gotta mention Demon Days being the thumbnail

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

14:40 I just noticed you put battle plans there lol

Your vids never disappoint

Great video 👍🏼- it’s crazy to see how little politics in Spain has actually changed since then 😂

I had no idea so many feathered Americans participated in air operations! 🦃

This was excellent, please cover Mikhail Krassnof and Operation Keelhaul

Love your vids :)

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

Something important is that falange wasn't monarchist. They support a nationalistic religious republic as Iran today.

Why isn’t this channel getting more recognition!!

Who else loves history

That thumbnail is hard asf

Wow a largely unbiased breakdown of the Spanish Civil War, this is great.

Fun, interesting, and underrated video 🦃

You can’t fight when you have nothing to fight for

0:09 This is true.

11:57 Ah Spain, you truly are something.

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 know how it ends and I'm still hyped! 😁🙌

This is such a channel! You are so underrated.

Spanish civil war the actual battle royal before fortnite took over

What is the song at 5:06 I've been looking for it forever and could not find it for the life of me! Please help!

Random question but has the thumbnail changed once and is now back to what it was? Great vid btw

"The Republicans don't even need outside help to lose"

🦃 Here some supplies 🦃

thanks to the thumbnail I can't help but hear the demon days album songs while the video plays

The Hoi4 soundtrack improved the video a lot for me lol. But seriously great video!

🦃🦃🦃This particular civil war somehow seams very relevant for no particular reason!🦃🦃🦃 - I'm talking notes on the turkey thing

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Very nice video.

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This is the reason of ALL of our actual political problems. Parties in Spain keep talking about this war and Franquism. We must look forward too without forgetting mistakes we made. It is so sad for me as a Spaniard to see the division our country has right now.

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

Great video! some mistakes to adress: Primo de Rivera's fall didn't happen as a direct product of economical incompetence, but as a result of spanish dependence of external capital, whose flow was cut short after the 1929 wall street crash. also, Alphonse XIII didn't abdicate because of a pleibiscite, but because of the defeat of the spanish monarquists in the 1931 municipal elections in the big cities (Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia,....). last but not least, the fouder of Falange's name was Jose Antonio Primo de rivera (yes, he was related to the dictator).

20:59 Mexico was really in a good shape during the presidency of Lazaro Cardenas.