"The Trotskyists must be rooted out and disposed of like wild beasts!!!" - Dolores Commiebárruri lol yeah this video was ehhhh...

Actually, Orwell never joined them. He was en rout to joining them when instead he joined POUM, when he decided he wasn't doing much in the POUM lines he made it to Barcelona in time for the May Day fights between the Republicans, the Anarchists, and POUM. He ended up not joining them, though he initially he wanted to.

so Orwell was a communist?

Matti Suutarinen he was more like a Trotskyist

​ @Matti Suutarinen @@Lc62195 He was a 'democratic socialist'.

So, you wished Hitler and Mussolini would have won? That a world with no democracy, with no race but the pure Arian, with no tolerance for religion and having your life completely controlled by a regime, is better? We are talking about freedom and human rights, and I don't care if the ideology is left or right as long as I'm free to defend my beliefs. And I know what I'm talking about because I lived, and my parents lived under Franco. My mother could not have a bank account without permission of my awful father, she could not have a passport or driver's license without permission of husband. We could not have basic health or mony because she was separated from him for being abusive but legally separation was not allowed, and I could go on. So, please before defending a dictator, think.

@@lobavulcana Womp womp

@@lobavulcana plz search the haavara agreement on google

@@lobavulcana "aryian race" lmaoooo

Ah yea the guy who literally killed socialists all of them

Lone Monarch a floating comment I see (that has no implications at all)

Spain did participate albeit in a minimalistic manner if a division can be called minimalistic. But why not a full commitment? Simply put Franco wasnt an expansionist. He was only interested in shaping Spain in his vision. Why? If Spain lost (and it would have being on the side of the axis powers) then the Spain he and the Nationalist fought for would have been lost. Then...and this gets tricky...we may have had an iron curtain in the northwest of europe. After all it was vs Russia that the little commitment fought against and Stalin got what he wantec post WW2 because the others were either ill and/or sick of war. Stalin was a shrewd bastard and would have had a lot of pull in Spains future....

James Mackenzie I heard when Franco was asked to fully commit into the war that his demands were "too much" so Hitler wanted nothing to do with him afterwards (if Franco intentionally made his demands too big to avoid war is anyone's guess), I have also heard he had accepted a bribe from Britain to stay out of the conflict... Franco's Falange did show some expansionist views however, with one of their goals after the civil war being to take back the territory of the former Spanish Empire.

franco did what he could to stay out without looking like he was an enemy of hitler or mousolini. it was purely strategic, as spain was not really a part of the axis. if he looked too 'neutral' then spain would have been red meat for either hitler or mousolini. he had his own war to take care of and took care of it. life is complicated and you make ends meet. spain flourished for a short period afterwards, now its back to square one. understanding the history of france and spain is to understand history itself. there are a tremendous amount of issues now that have direct ties to what happened to these countries in the past. but, alas, good old commie public schools wont teach the truth will they?

Spain didn't participate because of his civil war. After the war the country was nearly literaly destroyed, the only thing Spain could give to the Axis was a veteran army. Yet, as he regime was pro-axis and wanted to "show gratitude" to Hitler for his help, he allowed many things to germany that didn't allowed to the allies, like spies routes and safe ports, to the point that Spain sent a voluntary division to the Soviet Union front. Nevertheless, Spain rellied a lot economicaly on the allies, and added to the situation of the country before the war, being at war with them would have been a disaster. So I would say that it was a combination of both Hitler not wanted or not needed Spain, and the necesity of trade with the allies for the economy. (Also Uk bribed a lot of spanish generals to convince Franco to stay out)

Seriously?

@@johnathanmay9143 Yes

@Ceo of racism Franco wasn't falangist.

@Ceo of racism "CEO of Racism"

Thomas Headley What "grief"? Actually, I'm not clear what you are saying. Perhaps if you simplify, I would. Now, regarding state control, we (of the US) have more of it today than the last century's dictatorships did. If the world ever corrects itself to the better, it will historically look back at the imprisonments of current America and the ones of Stalin as roughly the same. Although American prisons today are more survivable, the per capita numbers are higher.

Thomas Headley Your post may be "self explanatory" to you, but you aren't writing for yourself; you're writing for a reader. You need to make one point and explain that. Otherwise, readers won't understand and you're wasting the time of both yourself and the reader. I'll try once more. What "grief" are you talking about? I'm not grieving about anything.

Thomas Headley hjiiyokpy

Isn't that a great view on life. You don't like your boss, but you need a job. Since you work for your boss, you are practically your boss. Nice logic kid

USA coerced or forced Spain to join the league of American mass murderers a.k.a. nato with a small n

In the harshest years of Franco's dictatorship Real Madrid didn't win ANYTHING, we are talking about FIFTEEN YEARS, while Barça won a lot of Spanish League titles and Genaralisimo Cups. Franco was a pariah in Europe, so Real Madrid's brilliant row in the European Cup was an achievement made by Real Madrid itself. Face it, Real Madrid has been globally better than Barcelona. Face it, Culerdo.

rufo3 stfu he was in reign in the 50s and they won 4 ucls consecutively and 1 in mid 60s. Before Franco BARCA nd Bilboa were killing it in spain ever since this guy took over they had a harsh time, nd fck real madrid

Stalin lived on the other side of Europe. Stalin wouldn't have been in Spain had the Republicans won, any more than Hitler and Mussolini were by their support of Franco. Now, the foreign Moorish mercenaries that brought the war to Spain, along with the religious zealots and fascio-nazi foreign supporters, without which Franco's aristocrats would have lost the war, those certainly were in Spain.

@@Libertyjack1 I have a funny feeling that the Republicans overall goal was to eventually turn Spain into a Marxist Leninist type country.

@@thewhiteheromainchannelPerhaps more Marxist than Leninist. It was mostly an anarchist experiment to start with, but required the backing of a foreign government, upon Franco's military intervention. In any case, with the exception of France, at least during the first phase of the War, Spain faced the hostility of its neighbors, which seems to be an underlying story for any country that tries to cater to more than its wealthiest citizens.

@@Libertyjack1 you realize that the soviets were Financing and supplying Spanish republicans (Bolshevik communist Marxists) with military equipment and soldiers right? The entire Soviet objective was to instigate Bolshevism across Europe. If not, they shouldn’t have financed Spanish leftists. That’s how they tried to conquer Europe. Weaken the west till they can invade.

@@freckleheckler6311 They weren't the only ones.