Can you also state the position of Portugal during WW2 please

Can you talk about China and civil war also fall of Qing?

What software aer you using to animate the maps?

Please subtitule in Spanish

Subtitule in Spanish please

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Brazil, Argentina and Mexico are also part of the "we don't wanna take sides, we wanna sell to both sides". All were "friendly" to Germany, however. Quite a few other countries wanted in the war but lacked sea power to get to Europe or the Far East. The US and Britain controlled the oceans. Politics and money together =trouble.

“You can’t be destroyed in a World War if you destroy yourself in a civil one.” China: um, about that...

Their the Spanish economy was a Shambles like the Southern and Border states of the USA after the Us Civil war. Like Ireland they Spain saw little benefit and likely further Damage to their economy and cities-"fledgling" Industries if they became involved..

Well, if you're already destroyed, you might as well join, as you have nothing to lose.

even with the focus they never join..

As a EU4 player I want to get into HOI4 but I don't want to go through a similar painful learning curve again...

@@kennyPAGC it is far more easy to learn hoi4 than eu4 don't worry

@@kennyPAGC honestly, I've got HOI4, stellaris and EU4 and I love HOI4. But EU4 and Stellaris are just so complicated to use that I just quit after 20 mins

@@kennyPAGC HOI4 is way easier to learn than EU4.

His experiences there turned him against Communism.

peter west Lol not. He fought on the communist side and is a known socialist. He rallied against totalitarianism, but supported anarchist communism

Yeah, and those same Communists who labeled him as a 'Fascist' and tried to have him arrested, whom he said that they "Lied at every opportunity!". Orwell, who wrote Animal Farm, about as anti-communist as you can get...

@@communismisthefuture6503 Come back and comment when you know what you are talking about. You are obviously just a far left bigot, who thinks "totalitarianism" applies only to the far right. Read Stephen Keebler´s post and start to learn.

@Mandragora Ouroboros Name a Communist regime that has not been a clone of Stalinism. That is the way it always ends up.

You once heard? From whom? Yourself?

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No basis for that

I think that was said by the Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs at the time, Mihai Antonescu (not to be confused with Ion Antonescu, who was effectively ruling the country). Note: When this was reportedly said, Romania had already participated in the invasion of the Soviet Union.

The British Commonwealth fought the Japanese on mainland Asia so remember that the Americans did not fight Japan alone. In fact, the majority of Japans forces were on mainland Asia fighting the Chinese for 4 years before America joined in not to mention they had a million men in Manchuria. The US never faced more than 20% of the IJA. The myth that America fought Japan alone is just that, a myth, an American one at that.

Ok

Reasons why general Franko distrusted Germany: In July of 1936 socialists and communists of Spain started the wave of terror, which Comintern was secretly planning and financing since 1932. On July 16, in Barcelona, the left began a real massacre: at least 700 priests were killed, the palace of justice was captured and routed, all judges and lawyers were shot. Churches, shops, and private homes burned. On July 17, the Communists announced the formation of their own armed forces. Spain government asked Germany for help, but received no answer. At that time Franko had no place in Junta, he was commander of the African Army in Morocco. Franco used his personal connections to get Junkers Ju-52 transporters to bring soldiers from Africa to Spain. Germany and Italy agreed to give him some credit to buy weapons and ammo. There were no free staff for him. Moscow helped republican forces with tanks, airplanes, cannons, light weaponry and ammo. Then Berlin began to push for the adoption by the nationalists of the Four-Year Plan " Montaña " - the establishment of direct control of the Third Reich over the Spanish mining industry. The Nazis threatened that in response to the rejection of the plan, Germany would no longer help the nationalists. In fact, they were preparing Spain the status of a German semi-colony. When Franco refused that plan, Germany stopped the flow of any military supplies from the Reich and refused to resume them for almost a year - until the beginning of 1938.

Franco’s army vs. Republicans army When we look into the tactical and technical data, we’ll see the armament of the Republic far exceeded the Francoist. For example, in the core of the nationalist fighter planes fleet were Italian biplane “Fiat CR.32” and German single-seat biplane “He 51”. Both types of fighters were not able to catch in the sky the Soviet SB bombers and I-16 fighters (republican). In armored vehicles, the Republican advantage was generally overwhelming! Only less than a hundred German Panzer II tanks had guns (20 mm caliber), and absolutely all 362 Soviet tanks were armed with 45 mm (or at least 37 mm) guns, moreover, about of Republican’s 70 armored vehicles (BA 3 and BA 6 type) also carried a 45 mm gun. And yet: 150 Italian-made tanks of Francoist army, in fact, were not tanks - their armor was thinner armor on Soviet-made armored vehicles, and the weight, respectively, was almost half that.

Reasons why general Franko was against Soviet Union: The USSR supplied the Republicans with weapons and food for free, HOWEVER (!) Moscow took for “temporary” storage about 73% (that is, 510 tons) of Spain's strategic gold reserve (incidentally, the fourth in the world at that time). The gold was exported by the authorized NKVD in Spain, Alexander Orlov, aka Leib Feldbin, aka Comrade Miguel, aka «Bank оf America» representative George Blackstone. The republicans sent the remaining 193 tons of gold to Paris to pay for supplies of arms and food, of which about 40 tons the Franco government was able to receive after the war ended. Thus, out of 700 tons of the country's gold reserves, the Republicans put to waste more than 94%! In response to demands to return gold, the USSR stated that it had gone to pay for the supply of weapons ... It should be noted that a number of Spanish ships, once in the Soviet Union, were also confiscated due to the “debts” of the Spanish Republic for the supply of weapons. For example, new large and high-speed «Cabo San Augustin» (built in 1931, deadweight 9900, speed 16 knots) had become “Dnepr”, and «Juan Sebastian Elcanо» (built in 1928, deadweight 6200, speed 16 knots) had become “Volga” .

Did u even listen?

He was no fool that's for sure. May the great General Rest peacefully 🙏

He could have done the right thing and joined the allies rather than secretly trying to help the nazis? Guy was a germ.

@@sampats89 he should have joined the germans,that would be the right thing,you're a traitor to your race..

He also provided sanctuary to another truly great general, politician, and European nationalist, the indomitable Leon Degrelle.

@@kingconan9271 :O

@Zeros DaBast Agreed, in this time Italian army was too bad to fight against powerful powers, but if they developed and trained their army for more than at least 5 years, they could do better, but Mussolini was too naive about that.

@@user-pz2dy7wc9c not really, I think Mussolini gave germany the year that they would be "Fully ready" to start their fight (it was something absurd like 1943 or something)

@@jameslegrand848 I remember it, it's 1943 I think too, but he already brought Italy to war much earlier.

Zeros DaBast 👏👏 FAX

The comparison does not make sense,study a little bit more please.

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@Justin Case I know that story but I think that Germany would loose any way. Portugal joined the war In 1917 one year before the end of the war. In 1917 the war was already won for the allies. But in ww2 Portugal influenced Spain to stay neutral. If Spain joined the axis Portugal would have to join the allies. Portugal gave an military air base in the Azores Islands to facilitate moving airplanes through the antlatic. Portugal received many jews refugees. And portugal was the biggest trader of tungsten in Europe. Germany had to pay got the tungsten but Britain did not. Portugal was neutral but always helping a bit the allies. Portugal knew that if neighbor Spain turned to the axis, Germany would invade Portugal. Portugal did the most smart decisions for his people, even the Portugal being an dictatorship.

The U.S. used portugal for spies going in and out of France. Along with transmission of radio signals to the English coast line.

Não sabia que o sr que canta tão bem, era tambem bastante culto.

My gran_grand father fighted in SpanishCivil war so-called International brigade je fighted in same brigade like Hemingway...Yugoslavian students from Prague and Paris organised troops

Do they not have schools or libraries I your area....seriously...and this taught you...hahahahaha

Input where...jesus wept.

EXACTLY!! ME TOO!! All I really know was that they were going through a brutal Civil War but, that ended not too long after the start of WW2... plus Franco also supported Hitler... I believe the 2 even met with eachother... so I'm curious to see why...

Da Bome sure it was a great man !

The tragic part is they cancelled his Parler account.

Spain was non beligerant, not neutral, and the Division Azul wasnt the spanish army itself but rather spanish citizens serving as volunteers in the german army. Spain knew their side, but they also knew they were not prepared. also they had good commercial relations with UK and they pmuch depended on them as spanish economy was crumbling after the civil war, so it wouldnt make sense for Spain to declare war on them u can hate Franco all u want but he was extremely smart during WW2 and during the Cold War

Actually the blue division was a clever move by Franco to send off the most radical elements of his party to die in the East and ensure political stability within Spain.

Don't say "Volunteers" They were Volunteers. From the south yo the north, to the defeated to the fascist, allí of those Volunteers worked Togheter to destroy the soviet Union, and Oh boy, they killed a lot of those red heads haha!

Awesome

They weren't two sides of the same coin. They both held nationalist and imperialistic views (just as the Brits did), but Franco was a Catholic leader, under the limits of Christianity, whereas Hitler knew no limits to his Übermensch brutal ideology.

A lot of people confuse neutrality with pacifism. For example Switzerland and Austria are neutral countries ergo they don't support either NATO nor Russia but they still spend a lot of money on their military. They actually spend more per capita on defense relative to their neighbors because of the fact that they are not under the protection of either power. Austria's position is rather curious as an attack on the EU would compel them to fight with NATO (as 90% of the nations are members) but if an EU and NATO member attacked let's say Russia over Ukraine they could stay out. EU and NATO have been speeding up Ukraine's integration process just so they could get a reason to deploy there, Russia of course sensing this is creating as much chaos as possible to delay the process. In that case under the EU's mutual defense clause Austria could be called to war.

Neutrality has always been a myth. For instance, Sweden was secretly allies with the U.S. for the entire cold war.

Yup, as the video showed, volunteer citizens only serve to make the concept murkier.

Yes, it's hard to make a statement sometimes. In this case, Spain didn't want to lose immediately after a Civil War, and they couldn't afford a war.

Turkmenistan is the first self proclaimed (upon independence nonless) and truly neutral country to this day.

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MilkTrafficker Not to mention, Hitler signed the nation he loved in all his heart its own death warrant by declaring war on the USA and USSR, I believe that had he invaded the caucuses regoin first before doing the push to Moscow, he would have a higher chance of winning the Eastern front, then after a possible victory on the east, he can now put all of his focuses on Britian. And also had he not made an allaince with Japan, he would not have to declare war on the USA, thus would’ve saved his nation from further complete bedlam.

Except it wasn't Franco's choice, since he wanted to join. It was Hitler's choice.

Third point is false. The Spanish units in the Eastern front were more effective than most of the German army.

@@onlytolerantoflactose1531 These men had no reasons fighting the Russians. If Germany won the war, Spain would be the next sitting ducks.

the Blue Division were spanish citizens who fought as German Army volunteers. it was NOT the Spanish Army

Actually, the Blue Division were fascist sympathisers who willingly enlisted, but there were also relatives of republicans who fought to minimise their time in prison. Despite supporting a wrong cause, all of them acted bravely in combat and didn’t abuse the Russian civilians.

@@aggerktm nonsense many from division Azul were army members

@@anothernpc4943 so what? they were all still spanish volunteers enlisted in the Wehrmacht. they fought as german army, not as spanish army, the same way many exiled republicans fought for the Allies in France.

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@@Knowledgia I think your name isn't means nothing, because every time I watch your videos I learn something new! * O *

We... Tend to make that impression

@Daddy Mcdada Because they're a neutral country that would've been invaded if they didn't complied. Hell the US has Nazi Scientists in their ranks after the war.

@@ousamadearu5960 it was a difficult position, Germans helped in Spains civil war so you can’t fully dog them and because they hated the soviets, but were more aligned with Americans and brits. On top of that you’re broke from the home civil war which requires a great deal of attention to keep tensions in society stable during the aftermath.

On top of that, Franco arrived about an hour late at their meeting in Hendaya. True story. Typical Spanish incompetence, rubbish communication system…? Who knows.

@T bird and Reds if you say so!!. I have no idea of such theory or politic. I heard the cops story before. But never heard that Mexico was trying to destroy the US

@T Bird and Reds imagine bulls running wild all over ny my dream bro JOKE That theory sounds like a minimum of 20 dollars of Maria, nice shet xDD

Yes he experienced 'the horrors of war', since he was directly responsible for a number of those horrors. I agree his greatest strength was pragmatism.

Just about every individual in ww2 was a seasoned fighter, Europe had just seen ww1

franco was a monster. My father fought in the Spanish Civil War as a Republic. franco was a curse word in my household. Because of franco, l never meet my ancestors, l nearly lost my entire Spanish family because of that man. ( Small f for franco intentional! )

@@arthurrubiera8029 I'm an outside observer and I have concluded that Franco was basically a phychopathic killer who enjoyed killing. Politics was secondary to Killing.

@@arthurrubiera8029 I mean its a civil war, did u expect him to win it without killing anyone?

My parents in Portugal suffered from hunger and poverty. They do not had shoes...

@@contraplano3157 all latinos were dirt poor back then,most of us are still poor as hell.You’re parents weren’t the only one’s so don’t feel left out

@@bloodredrainlatin Europeans aren't considered latinos, Latinos are people of Latin American decent

@@Pazuzu-tn7bv oh my bad,let me correct myself:Romans

@@Pazuzu-tn7bv latin europeans ARE latinos, why do you even think it's called LATIN america in first place?

Franco was a pragmatist who kept Spain out of a pointless war. He played both sides in the interests of his country. He also industrialized the country and led a miraculous economic recovery. Most importantly, he got rid of the filthy communists.

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@@downwiththethiccness9406 Thousands and thousands of Spaniards starving to death does not sound like much of a recovery, but a tyranny. Franco's dictatorship was perhaps the most oppressive since the Muslims invaded the South of Spain centuries before. The Second Republic were Social Democrats. Learn about the Spanish Civil War before posting

I can't say we educate you. But I think through these videos you may find History even more interesting and you will do research by yourself, and thus learning more :)

Good point. I always thought the same.

Some things never change!

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Except for tungsten, of course.

No, Churchill bribed Franco's generals not to enter the war.

@@dredd1981 the hell do you mean??? Spain was before the richest nation in the world. Today Spain is one of the richest nations in the world and the 5th richest nation in the EU (this is after 2008). Before 2008, Spain was even richer. The 2008 economic crash and the ruling socialists stagnated Spanish economic growth but soon enough it will begin rising once more.

Well, not playing by choice is not the same as not playing because you can't. Spain did not have the financial resources nor an economy to participate sustain a war.

Spain win? Wut? What did they win? Territory? Money?

@@no_se_nada_de_nada Not being invades by Allies (To be honest I think it would be better if they did this instead of keeping the dictatorship, but it's just my opinion)

@@no_se_nada_de_nadaatleast spain dont got crisis after ww2

@@cheeko9052 they were in crisis already, that's why they didn't participate in the first place.

Wrong. If US didn’t join the war, most likely Spain would’ve joined.

@@kevinlopes1343 It's possible. Despite the modern misconceptions, the U.S DID save Europe. People have this idea in their heads that Germany succeeded during Barbarossa then got stomped. They didn't. They fell back sure, but by the time the allies started succeeding in Africa, Germany was already pushing back again. It's a total toss up as to who would have won. But let's say Hitler didn't declare war on the U.S and the U.S just let bygones be bygones. Spain could have definitely been THE turning point in the war. I definitely see them taking north Africa. And with Hitler not only never sending millions to the eastern and southern fronts, but also getting REENFORCED with hundreds of thousands of men (possibly millions with a draft) that puts Germany, who was already pushing back, on the same level as Russia in terms of manpower. Plus that opens up tons of supply options with a taken Africa and an opened up Mediterranean.

@@kevinlopes1343 You mean if Russians didn't join

Southern Italy too.

@@WiseSilverWolf Naples

Faake

Admiral Canaria was a spy for the British.

GOOD On You Unbelievable That Communism Was Never Mentioned ; The Most Important Factor ... The Republicans Quickly Became pawns of Stalin : after All Spanish Gold was " given to Stalin ; stopped sending Aid " Franco Deserves A LOT of Credit ... HE STOPPED Hitler from Entering his Starving Country ... His Very Good Friend from WW 1 was Admiral Canaris Who Warned Him... And He Arranged to Conduct the Study as How Difficult It would be to Take Gibraltar ... ( British Myth ; especially early in the war ) Take from Vichy French North Africa ; 11 Miles !! If The Germans / Italians had taken Gibraltar A Within Weeks Of The " Fall Of France " ... War With the British DONE... Italian Subs And Their FAST Cruisers .... Heck send the Bismarck & Tirpitz With Constant Luftwaffe Escort & A Big Wolf Pack ... Sink & Drive the British OUT.. Block the Suez Canal ... Give the Brits OK Terms... Then Really Build Up Correctly For " Stalin the REAL Enemy "" Franco & Adm. Canaris Stopped Hitler .....

Exactly. He was ultracatholic, anti masonist and anticomunnist

Let Communism spread!

@@jetsprobe1949 not before we spead your guts first

@@jetsprobe1949 at least Fascists don't let their own people starve to death. Filthy commie

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Should've been the entirety of Spain.

In the end Franco allowed his friends to die and was unsuccessful in preventing the rise of liberal politics in Spain He was a staunch anti-communist, great nationalist and a champion of the catholic faith, he failed tremendously in that regard as today Spain is among the least religious, nationalist and most leftist state in Europe All Franco won in the end was a comfortable death, his fascist friends veiwed him as a coward and the allies who loathed him veiwed him as a temporarily useful idiot who's legacy could be trashed once he'd served his purpose to them, which is pretty much what happened

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We’re not your brothers, Muhammad. Remember that little thing called the Reconquista? That means not welcome in Spanish. 🇪🇸

@@thebrocialist8300 Turkish people aren't even real Turks but Cappadocian Greeks who were conqueroed by Seljuks. Also completely irrelevant but eventhough Palestinians are muslims, their land is only for them and not Israelis. We must remember that sefardis had an influence on the entrance of the moors into Spain.

Turkics are not proper Meds.

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On the sides of the Spanish Republic there were communist, socialist, liberals, anarchist, conservatives and centrist. The communist gained more influence when it became clear that the allies had abandoned the republic and the USRR became the only international support alongside Mexico.

@@gfyphg9871 That's true, but I think the point still stands. I don't think it's accurate to describe them as the "liberal" side.

The Republic was a standard bourgeois liberal democracy. They had socialists in parliament (like any other liberal parliament) but the state itself never went down the road of seizing/redistribute property or any of that shit. There were communist and anarchist partisans who nominally fought on the republican side of the war, but they fought each other nearly as much they fought the fascists. Read Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia for more information.

@@thebrocialist8300 The Stalinists took over the Republican side within three months of the atart of the Civil War. They did not "nominally fight on the republican side." They were also the ones who refused to co-operate with the Liberals, Anarchists and POUM. Indeed, they hunted them down and killed them.

Yes Hemingway & John Dos Pasos went as " Correspondents ; very pro " Liberal ; Dos Pasos Instantly Saw the '' Stalinist's Hard Core '; Assassinate Popular Union Leader... & Warned Hemingway BUT No He Would Listen.. Dos Pasos wouldn't Speak to him After.

I am talking about the spanish volunteers

That is not true.

@@GeorgeVenturi Can you tell me what is not true?

Spain in WWII = perfect definition of a snake

It wasn't Franco's decision, it was Germany's decision...

He was still a nazi lover

President Truman: "Well I am the man in the comments section that would punish neutral countries and Finland for doing their best to survive"

@@Ktaurus26 not really, Franco is fucked by Germany, America, Britain, Hitler, and Truman. He didn't liked the Nazis, but is grateful for them helping them win the Spanish Civil War.

But there was Spanish and Portuguese volunteers in the blue division in the Wehrmacht

@@liampetersen7548 And Spanish volunteers fought for the USSR and British volunteers fought for Nazi Germany. Your point?

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Franco also had that lastname "Andrade", which can be traced back to galician noblemen in the Middle Ages.

Yeah

My family name is Andrade. Im filipino

Franco was not a fascist, not every dictatorship is fascist or communist, dictatorships existed long before those ideologies. He put a monarch as his successor and catholic church had massive amounts of power during Franco regime. He was just a usual conservative dictator.

USA: also gave USSR military equipment to push back the Germans.

They helped Spain against communism. In the case of Germany, just for their experiments

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Curious question: How do Spaniards view their (formerly) fascist government? I'm opposed to fascism but I also understand that being from the U.S gives me freedom tinted glasses. From what I hear a lot of Spaniards consider Franco to be the best leader they've ever had and some consider him the absolute worst.

@@spiffygonzales5899 It was a war against mad assasin comunism. The second republic and the "Frente Popular" (a mixture of socialists, communists, anarquists etc etc the worst of the worst), crossed all red lines with civil rights, killing people that only went to the church, the church themselves with their priest inside, persecutions..., so something needed to be done. Last straw was the assasnination of the leader of the right wing, Calvo Sotelo, which marked the beginning of the rising when half the military said "not anymore, this is it". Spain still stands, even to this day, as the only nation that has defeated communism in the field, because our civil war was about that, to free ourselves from communist madness, and we won..., for now, because as you now comunism, after the fall of the wall only changed dress, to come later as the dreaded "Political Correctness" we have been suffering since early two thousands, and which goal is what they call here in Europe (The EU goverment is the people's enemy right now, something similar to your democratic party there in USA, which is the devil itself), "Agenda 2030", which objective is to eradicate private property eventually, which means, simply speaking, communism winning, and we won't tolerate that, again. By the way, if you truly from USA, you ee even your country falling to communist message (Political Correctness), that you have also been suffering since latest nineties. Have you seen your youth right now going mad and defending socialism and communism as the alternative?, you're about to fall, and if USA falls, so do every single free nation in the world..., so please don't do it, and if you must do what we once did in order to defeat communism..., then you must, otherwise it will be the end of actual freedom. Fascim, apart from being a derivation to communism, was also a direct answer to it. Franco and its fascist goverment gave us the pilars of all we enjoy today, (Seguridad Social, etc)and freedom with democracy after regimen. I mean, you cannot end a war, and a civil one which is the worst (you USA know about that too, right?), and install a democracy straight away, specially aftert your direct enemy was communist..., you have to do a very deep clean man, otherwise the cancer will grow again. This might ring you a bell: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson". You must react to communism taking over your country too man, for its being done since forty years ago. Watch this video carefully, everything explained by a very ex- KGB agent: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j5-Eqcx62r60g3k.html Kind regards

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@@spiffygonzales5899 the spanish right still likes him or is lukewarm to him. The spanish left depises him and isn't willing to attribute to him anything good spain achieved after the civil war. That's pretty much it.

Franco made unreasonable demands that he knew Hitler couldn't accept in exchange of entering the war, precisely because he didn't want to join the axis.

That's the way the real state prices skyrocketed in Mallorca in the 90'.