The Spanish Civil War | Civil War in the Civil War and The Ebro Offensive | Polandball History 

After finishing this series, could you try doing a series on other South American dictatorships during the Cold War??

Could you cover Peter Kemp’s other two books?

Why do all your background tracks slap

You’ve fallen to the dark side

PLEASE after the Spanish episodes, PLEASE do the greek civil war

Years of academy training wasted

There goes my history degree

Hoi4 tends to lie "7TP: great war light tank chassis" "Nationalist Spain (fascist)" Are mere examples.

Paradox games are like total war games. They'll give you mostly accurate history, but the game play will blow it so out of proportion that you'd think the boshin war was actually a major Japanese war with hundreds of thousands dead on either side

Nooooooooooo

sometimes historical does some funky things

Nope, moscow infiltrated your floor and now is all коммунистическая почва

Another way hoi4 lies to you: makes AI Germany invade Benelux and France before Denmark and Norway

​@@The_whales indeed

Extremadura is like the Resident Evil 4 village so probably very hard

It's so beautiful to watch commie filth destroy themselves.

​@@The_Soviet_Onion real

@@The_Soviet_Onion I honestly might not blame them... I wouldn't even force the Alcazar Puzzles on even my worst enemies :'(

@@The_Soviet_Onion Except with 90% less latinoamericans xD

He also wanted to consolidate power inside the military junta. Originally, he was declared leader "as long as the war lasts". This meant that it was against his own interests to win before he knew he would be able to keep the power after.

He wanted to kill every socialist, catalan, or basque

Communist propaganda.

Really though? I know very little on the Spanish Civil War but won't any diplomat tell the country they're in that they are most definitely not going to invade them?

@@KaiHung-wv3ul i mean you just had to look at France at that time, and they were not ready to go to war anyways, and Franco knew. It was politically divided and its army and industry destroyed by the left wing parties directly obeying to Stalin. And often if you're going to invade someone, you threaten him first, in order to get what you want without fighting.

Sigma Anarchist Grindset.

Mother anarchy loves her sons... right up until they make deals with tankies

You just dont get the lifestyle of a true hustler

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@@nuttmc4803 damn guess I don't

Agreed

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@@Aquelequedesconhece I think he said he survived the concentration camp because the Catholic Jesuit school he was in as a child was tougher and more austere, pretty sure he was joking but still.

Source?

@@tenanaciouz Trust me bro

@@Fordo007 Yeah, thats total BS, the Jesuits were Allied with the Nazis and made sure their guys had enough to eat even if they were officially starving.

Leftist infighting is always glorious

Sounds a lot like the Russian Civil War had the whites beaten the reds.

Yeah that would be really interesting, it was very short though.

The history of the leftists is pretty interesting, too. Two of the leading figures in the communist Red Guard: Otto Wille Kuusinen and Edvard Gylling were ardent nationalists early on who took inspiration from Kalevala, the Finnish national epic. While Kuusinen later became an internationalist, but Gylling still wanted to make a communist Greater Finland during the Civil War. After the Reds lost, Kuusinen became a yes-man for Kremlin and was pretty much responsible for most of the Finnish communist leadership getting executed for "nationalist chauvinism", including Gylling.

I want a video on this, I'm currently reading a book about it and its pretty interesting.😊

Commie rats call everyone fascists. And have no standards.

Tankies keep tanking

smartest communist

You gotta do what you gotta do😏

Stalin would purge tankies as well.

Honestly, its weird that it didn't happen more

​@@therealgeneralMacArthur literaly this

fuck soviet communists, all my homies hate soviet communists

Makhnovia?

How did the Soviets betray the anarchists?

Most of the books covering it as well tends to be *insanely* biased, so Ezekiel's video is a rare breath of fresh air

​@@DogeickBateman True that, I, being Spanish, tried VERY HARD, to find some non political biased book about the civil war, let me tell you, is fuking hard, the less political biased books i have are Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" and Peter Kemp's recolection whose name i can't remember.

@@Defsould I read one of those Oxford Brief Introduction books written by some British academic lady and I realized halfway she wasn’t just a Republican, she was a communist. Why

@@Defsould Like Orwell once said, the most rational opinions are at the front, the least rational are those who know it all yet are away. Or something like that

@@Defsould, "Mine Were of Trouble" is the book you're referring to, I believe.

Communism: “Food? Not in my country!”

Ikr

The reason the republic lost was because nationalism is a superior ideology, communists are evil filth, and anarchists are utterly useless.

We'll it's not completely wrong

That was the exact issue. The fascists had modern fighter and bomber support from Germany, and the Republicans had the garbage that they managed to scrap together during a Civil War.

​@@Inoffensive_name I think this series made it abundantly clear that that was not the exact issue. Between the infighting and Stalinist infiltration, as well as overall bad leadership and terrible strategic decision making. Their few advantages were numbers and PR, the latter of which they squandered. They arguably didn't even have a moral advantage given the child soldiers the Republicans used, though that advantage largely depends on whether you think that is better or worse than leaning towards Nazi Germany.

There was some degree of leadership, at some level they did "elect" officers who could be replaced again by another vote it was convoluted and didn't really create a stable corps of officers who knew what the hell they were doing but they did have some hierarchy

@@KalashVodka175 yeah, voting in military is stupid the same way voting for the most popular passenger of a plane to be the pilot.

​@@KalashVodka175 This is why history is so important to learn. If the Anarchists read why the French Republicans and Soviets quickly abandoned electing officers, they would have at least had some sort of proper organization.

@@imgvillasrc1608 Fair point but it would go against their objective of having no « unjust hierarchy » Like a dog eating its own tail

@@imgvillasrc1608I mean there is some examples where it worked, such as the mongols, though I’m guessing there weee some aspects that made it work. when they voted for someone it was usually someone who did know what they were doing, replacing an incompetent commander. I won’t defend this practice but it’s probably the reason they would vote

I agree

there are some games about Spain but they're pretty old. I forget their names but I believe one might've been an old call of duty game, another kinda played like Arma, it might've been a mod, there was also a top down strategy one based on small house to house fighting where you move troops into and out of cover like crates and houses but it received controversy in spain because "It reminded people of the horrors of the war which they still have not gotten over" essentially.

​@@delano4526the call of duty one is actually a mod, not a standalone game, but it's pretty good, at least it's not that demanding of cpu, compared to the back2fronts one

They were Commies and had no idea how to run anything.

Es como somos los españoles, buenos soldados, pero pésimos líderes

Do all the communist civil wars. Russia, Spain, Finland, China, etc.

Second.

That's because historical revisionism is a key tactic by leftists.

Reminder that the right didn't start fighting back in earnest until the communists murdered their political opposition, burned churches, raped nuns, and stole property. Those Godless heathens got what was coming to them and then some.

Stop the victimism, the dictatorship had decades to find the bodies and they couldn't care less about your great grandfather or any other of the "españoles de bien" they were pawns and they were treated as such by their own side. Now the heirs of the dictatorship laugh at their own victims when they try to find the bodies of their ancestors

​@@JamesFTW1 It is ironic that you speak of victimhood when the left is the first to bring up the subject of the civil war and complain about having lost the war. Not to mention that more than 85 years have passed. But when we talk about the terrorism of ETA or the extreme left in Spain, which was killing until 2011, they say that the only thing we do is to politicize and say "ETA no longer exists". Franco is not there either and that does not stop you from talking about him all the time. And that you talk about pawns.... When during the war the left was dedicated from the beginning to kill each other in 1936, or when the republican government mobilized children from 14 to 17 years old, the so-called "quinta del biberon", or that they did not mind at all to sell part of Spain to foreign powers. And nobody laughs at those who are looking for their dead relatives. What happens is that they only remember the dead of the republicans, and when you mention the dead of the nationalists, they respond by saying that they were coup perpetrators and that they deserved to die.

The left always had good cancel culture

Who is that?

​@@robertortiz-wilson1588 North-african tribes, Franco was very respected and admired by these men, they even thought he had "Baraka".

@Eyrik Valkland ah, thank you.

@@Defsould Franco was very kick in gaining their support, that when the republicans call them in descolonization talks, they were not even there because they were supporting Franco in the Peninsula

​@@robertortiz-wilson1588indigenous Moroccans. These specifically were race traitors who had put down liberation movements in Morocco against their Spanish occupiers. There were plans on the Republican side to try to influence these to go back to Morocco and care for their families instead of dying in a war for their colonisers.

Franco reading the letter probably felt like it was a "You Win!" screen

So true.

​@@ambiguousdrink4067 It's like the ending screen in Minecraft when you beat the Ender Dragon

I need elaboration on anarchists.

​@@amhuman5138 Me too

@@pannik_lucas he possibilistes libertaires (who won the majority of votes at the 1936 congress and whose leader is the general secretary of the CNT) are anarchists who essentially want to take control of the state with the help of a party or a trade union (basically, they're Marxists who don't take on too much, but I'm biased here). Anarchist ministers don't come out of nowhere. Treintism, its life of the "Manifesto of the Thirty", in 1936, they merged more and more with the possibilists and the main difference is that they had split in the 20s/early 30s to make a libertarian party. And the radical anarchists are mainly the Durruti Column, the Friends of Durruti (there's a lot of Durruti for people who are supposed to burn idols, isn't there?), the Iron Column and the Libertarian Youth. These are the groups that stay true to doctrine and refuse to deal with the state/bourgeoisie. They were the ones who took up arms during the May Days of 1937. That said, even in the radical branch, one criticism is that they have tended to want to form defense councils, and that these are merely states in disguise. That said, the CNT's divisions are not the part of the social revolution I understand best. If you're interested, read CNT et le pouvoir (by César M.Lorenzo, more of a possibilist) and CNT dans la révolutions de 1936 et lutte de toujours (by José Peirat, more of a radical).

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It's a trend that when society breaks down, the most radical of positions eventually take over rather than the more moderate ones.

Like with the Russian Civil War, Chinese Civil War, French Revolution, etc.etc.

​@KaiHung-wv3ul They all got L's eventually, lol. The Bolsheviks eventually got moderated when Stalin died (long-term W for Mensheviks), the French Republic became the French Empire when the republic was too weak to govern itself and Napoleon cleaned up the mess that the Republic made, and the PRC no longer follows the Maoist vision when Deng Xiaping took control.

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God bless them

Honestly, they made the right decision. The republicans were a mess.

@@Kaiserboo1871 even worse they're all godless heathens

are you proud of that? You're proud of your fascist family? Yikes.

the artist is Portuguese

based fellow leftist trying to get unbiased perspectives

no gods no masters, my comrade

Based af, Ezekiel's video on Anarcho-Syndicalism is also very convincing

You a christian anarcho socialist what?

This isnt really unbiased and its no surprise you as an anarchist support the fascist propaganda rather than the communists because you hate real communists because you are just another fascist apologist liberal scum

There are few holdouts left, and they will eventually sell out in time....alas, how the mighty has fallen.

the egoist are gonna enjoy this one.

It is, in fact, a reference

Better red than green!

Hahahaha...Imagine if Stalin was Running Spain...That is your answer.

@@silverhawkscape2677 yeah, i feel like people always say, 'oh how terrible, the world let fascism continue into the 70's' but they would hate the other side more, because they wouldn't be going to Barcelona for their holidays. Imagine Barcelona like a hot Moscow.

I highly doubt the Soviets would have been able to hold lots of power over Spain. Stalin couldn't even hold Yugoslavia within his grip and he had multiple puppet governments surrounding him. I highly doubt he would be able to hold a country on the opposite side of Europe, surrounded by Capitalist powers, in his grip. If the Republicans survived after WW2 they likely would have adopted neutrality as its stance, Spain likely would have a similar foreign policy to Yugoslavia. In addition any style of socialism implemented would be much different than implemented in the USSR, due to the influence of the anarchists it is likely Spain would have a bottom-up power system instead of top-down like in the USSR, which replaced rich elites with bureaucratic elites.

​@@pavan923lol...of course, every defeated communist movement would surely have built a fair and equal utopia.... funny how that's never happened in reality.

Gulags but with a Spanish name that sounds less industrial, a few million dead in a famine created by the glorious socialist state in the name of progress and the greater good, eventually mass alcoholism, stagnation and despair...*edit* and ugly grey architecture.

Right? Everyone ou here talking about Estremadura being ideal to split up the Nationalists seems to forget the fact that there would always be supply routes through the west via Portugal. Now, to be fair, Salazar was very cautious in his support, and so the Nationalists certainly wouldn't have that much power in this, but it'd probably be enough to still supply Seville and such. Estremadura itself also didn't have that much value. Like, it wasn't very populated nor industrialised, and it wasn't even that productive as an agricultural base. Really, the only major benefit of taking it would be the strategic values of the region, and that could only be applied fully if you could perhaps move down the border and cutting of all major roads. The Republicans did control the navy, so I doubt the Nationalists would get that much support by sea. In all fairness, Estremadura was a very good place to make an offensive, but it wasn't the only one, and perhaps some other places, if well organised (which wouldn't happen because Republicans, but still) would probably be even better.

@@12D_D21 They definitely couold've gotten supplies through, but I doubt Salazar would've let them bring troops over, so it's still a good idea, better than attacking Madrid anyway.

​@@KaiHung-wv3ulyea Salazar in no way would allow troop movements or heavy supplies just for the sole reason that he wouldn't want a bunch of armed militia men roaming the Portuguese countryside

Might as well give them Ada County.

My brother in Christ. They are literally Spanish militias, did you expect them to NOT be stupid?

En los últimos 100 años, perdimos un imperio, estuvimos en crisis, teníamos un rey con pañales, perdíamos muchos en revoluciónes marroquíes y tuvimos 3 guerras civiles anteriores a esta porque un hombre quería ser rey en lugar que su sobrina, y eso es básicamente siglo 19 y comienzos del 20 si eras español

​@@therealgeneralMacArthurhonestly the Napolionic wars should have been an indication of how competent Spanish militias can be.