Talk:Republican faction (Spanish Civil War)

I cant tell
Were they Democrats/Capitalists or Communists? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.28.188.56 (talk) 19:58, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Both. 96T (talk) 20:24, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

So basically a war was waged between the Nationalists/Fascists and everyone else? I like how a year later I get the same question and lo and behold someone answered it for me last time XD — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.28.188.56 (talk) 04:49, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
 * It is rather more complicated than that. The Republic that Franco's (Fascist) rebels tried to overthrow in 1936 was a democratic one, which had come into existence through democratic elections. Legislation passed under the Republic included such things as freedom of speech, women's right to vote, and the separation of church and state. All quite familiar to those from democratic republics like the USA. But some aspects of its behavior towards the church strongly alienated parts of the population -- Spain was and still is a staunchly Catholic country. To add to the confusion, the Republic also supported the nationalist aspirations of various regions of Spain, granting them autonomy. Therefore, some of the most ardent opponents of the Fascists were actually regional nationalists who saw defending their own regional autonomy from the Fascists as far more important than any ideological causes of left versus right -- and some of the most ardent supporters of the Fascists were in that camp to protect the established Church from what they saw as the threat from elements of the Republic. The government of the Republic also became more socialist in support and in agenda in the elections of 1936. Once war broke out, the tendency was for those on both sides to join, or be led by, extremists. Much of the material support for the Republic came from Soviet Russia, which tended to push its own ideological allies into positions of power. But many of those on the Republican side were still fighting for "freedom", or simply against the Fascists, rather than for any particular ideology. Some on the Fascist side would have taken the view that it was actually a war waged between "the Left and everyone else", with God and all respectable people firmly on the "everyone else" (Fascist) side. Talk pages are not really for discussion of the topic, so you may get better answers at the WP:Reference desk. MPS1992 (talk) 19:12, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

Political Parties involved relevance
Shouldn't the political parties involved be added in the first paragraph like in the nationalist faction 193.179.63.34 (talk) 10:19, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

"External support"
"Although it hardly received external support from the Allied powers of World War II, due to the International Non-Intervention Committee, the support of the USSR stands out, fundamentally, which together with Mexico together with France and Poland at the beginning of the war."

Would someone care to turn that into a grammatical and meaningful sentence? I can't even.. Harfarhs (talk) 17:45, 5 May 2021 (UTC)