The Spanish Civil War using Google Earth

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The Spanish Civil War from start to finish.
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[@GreatArjan]

Guerrilha do Araguia pls

[@jhapethlloydciron3185]

Can you do the american revolution? Havent seen it yets

[@ThatInsaneTaborite.]

I just saw the thumbnail and it looks like Franco looks like he is playing.

[@nphax2008]

Which is around 1 division for hoi4 players

[@NameTheEmpire123]

Quick question. How do you do this? Is it a website or is it in google earth? I really want to know

[@Model3140digitalalarmclock]

So you’re telling me the country didn’t just one day perfectly split in half like in hoi4??? 🤯🤯🤯

[@Oscar-ys9yx]

It got updated in Arms against Tyranny I reckon

[@cactisiusninja]

​@@Oscar-ys9yxIt did?

[@Europa1910]

Haven’t seen any change yet in my game.

[@fluxions3710]

Since when does it perfectly split in half?

[@petercui5464]

@@Oscar-ys9yxbut in the game there is an anarchist side in catalonia. I thought it was historical. That's not what happened?

[@Feldgrau752]

Always remember that every number was a life, someone loved that person.

[@stasbz7867]

Franco was the best Spanish leader ever

[@faxfromfred]

no wth?
@@stasbz7867

[@user-sw1yj6jy7c]

unfortunately this is how things are.The loss of one man is a tragedy but the loss of millions are just numbers

[@Kkkokp]

All these soldiers are only seen as statistics for the leaders

[@mamacojackson9019]

​@@stasbz7867Álvaro Bazán, gran capitán, Blas de Lezo, Gran duque del alba>>>>>>>Franco

[@DeathMoonKnight]

Two of my great-grandfathers fought in this war. One in each side. Many common soldiers didn't fight in the side they wanted (they didn't even want to fight), but they fought in the side that came first to their village and recruited them; they had no other choice, or they would have been shot right there. One of my great-grandfathers died in a battle in Galicia, he was one of those numbers that rise so fast in the first years of the war. The other had better luck, after serving long time in such a horror, he could desert during the battle of Ebro, crossing the river swimming and escaping to France. He was "enslaved" by the French, forced to work in the mines, until he could come back home after the war. In his absence, my great-grandmother, with her mother and sisters, survived by smuggling of goods hidden in fake-bellies (they pretended to be pregnant). Those were hard times for all Spanish society. Not to mention all the crimes and mass murders of civilians commited by both sides.
It was not a war of good vs. bad, or right vs. wrong. It was a bloody disaster for our society, that all people had to suffer, all families were touched by it, and we are still bleeding from it, since many people even in Spain only focus on the crimes of "the other side", instead of acknowledging the history as shameful as it was in its full.

[@alejandrorivera1812A]

Yes but Franco and the other we in fact generals so they treason Spain. They received help from Hitler and and Mussolini then reasoned them. Then they said fighting a crusade... Let African provinces in hands of the neighbours... Republic was legitimate, the fascist only were lucky during cold war period

[@DeathMoonKnight]

@@alejandrorivera1812A yes, those facts are true, but they are not the whole story. Despite the republican government was "legitimate", that doesn't mean it was good. The years before the war were full of injustice, State terrorism, burning of churches, political assassinations, and many other abuses of power that resulted in many people being unfairly treated, tortured or even murdered. The Spanish second republic is often (and sadly) glorified as if it was a great period, when it was far from just ok. Half of the country did not went into rebellion because they were evil fascists that wanted to destroy the country: the fascists, as in any country were they reached power, fed on the social crisis that the State was facing, bringing hope to desperate people who fell into the fascist populism because they wanted change to end the madness they lived in. Of course none of that justifies the horrible crimes comited by Franco and his fascist dictatorship; but in the same way, the fact that the "legitimate" republican goverment was destroyed by the fascists does not erase all the crimes that the republic had commited against the population before (and during) the war.

[@fierylightning3422]

@@DeathMoonKnight wow, rare to see someone on the internet who actually has a well-informed and nuanced take that takes into account all sides and biases of the historical area he is talking about. Quite glad to see that people like you are still around.
As always history is never black and white; it's always shades of grey.

[@DeathMoonKnight]

@@fierylightning3422 thanks, it's indeed quite difficult to stay objective and seek the truth in our polarized society. Sadly, Spain is still deeply divided, and our politics are taken by populism full of hate for "the others". I don't know if we will ever be able to overcome such divisions. The way people tend to blindly "choose one team" in wars as if they were just football games, even with current conflicts (e.g. Israel vs. Palestine), is sick. Nothing good will ever come from believing that in wars one side is full of evil people and the other is full of saints who always do the right things.

[@MegaXrafa]

​@@DeathMoonKnight as a Spaniard i like your take, Calvo Sotelo was the guy you were thinking i guess, a right wing politician who was taken from his house by republican cops and murdered, by many this is considered the break point of peace in Spain and the main reason the african military raise against the republic

[@ferra098]

Canción popular española sobre la guerra civil, basada en una historia real:
Caminando por el bosque
En el suelo vi que había
Una carta ensangrentada
De cuarenta años hacia
Era de un paracaidista
De la octava compañía
Que a su madre le escribía
Y la carta así decía
Madre anoche en las trincheras
Entre el fuego y la metralla
Vía al enemigo correr
La noche estaba cerrada
Apunte con mi fusil
Al tiempo que disparaba
Y una luz que iluminó
El rostro que yo mataba
Era mi amigo José
Compañero de la escuela
Con quien tanto yo jugué
A soldados y a trincheras
Ahora el juego era verdad
Y a mi amigo ya lo entierran
Madre yo quiero morir
Ya estoy harto de esta guerra
Madre si vuelvo a escribir
Tal vez sea desde el cielo
Donde encontrare a José
Y jugaremos de nuevo
Si mi sangre fuera tinta
Y mi corazón tintero
Con las sangre de mis venas
Te escribiría: Te quiero
Carta original:
Querida madre, no sé como empezar esta carta pero te escribo con mi rostro bañado en lagrimas, caen por la soledad, tristeza, dolor y sufrimiento que vivo día tras día aquí. Lo primero que tengo que decirte es Te Quiero y aunque no lo demuestre con frecuencia, Te quiero con locura, para mi eres la persona más importante, siempre has estado ahí apoyándome y protegiéndome, haces que las cosas malas parezcan buenas, tus consejos están llenos de sabiduría y siempre me has llevado por el buen camino. Ahora ya soy mayor de edad, tengo dieciocho años, puedo afrontar yo solo las cosas... pero la verdad es que no puedo madre... Perdóname, os hecho mucho de menos, ¡no quiero estar aquí! Se que desde casa junto a padre y mis hermanos os sentís orgullos de mi, podéis presumir de tener un hijo en el frente. Lo siento por ser un cobarde madre pero tengo miedo, más del que puedo aguantar. No entiendo esta guerra, no se cual es el bando bueno, no sé por qué lucho, no entiendo nada de lo que pasa, solo acato ordenes. El incesante sonido de los fusiles se mezclan con los gritos y llantos de la gente torturando mis oídos día y noche, vivo con una melodía continua de ametralladoras y lluvias constantes de bombarderos. Ya no hablo ni pienso, porque otros lo hacen por mi, solo me hace falta una frase para salir del paso aquí, “a la orden”. Dicen que el amor es suficiente para seguir adelante, que hay que luchar por nuestras familias, demostrar lo que valemos, pero ya no tengo el valor para estar en la batalla, las piernas me tiemblan sin parar, no duermo, me cuesta respirar, lloro a escondidas porque no puedo demostrar lo que siento delante de mis compañeros, se fuerte y lucha me repito constantemente, pero las palabras se pierden en mi mente como las vidas de la gente que esta a mi alrededor, soy la marioneta de un tirano titiritero. A noche nos lanzaron en paracaídas a una zona nueva de batalla, dicen que somos la mejor compañía jamás vista, la fuerza de los ochos nos llaman. La octava compañía paracaidista, siempre al frente luchando por su patria, por los ideales de un estado, viviendo el conflicto con lealtad y valor. Somos soldados valerosos, abrimos brechas en las filas enemigas, causamos bajas en ellos como si fueran animales y no tenemos remordimientos, pero todo es mentira pura mentira, solo fachada, una apariencia; los rostros de la gente demuestran lo contrario, sus caras se han tronado sombrías y pálidas, muestran el temor, horror y desamparo que se vive aquí, pero como nos repiten una y otra vez, “¡soldados o ellos o ustedes!” Madre para lo que realmente te escribo es para contarte lo que me ocurrió anoche. Me encontraba en el campo de batalla resguardándome del fuego cruzado y la metralla. Como siempre acataba ordenes, teníamos que superar una cota para llegar hasta un punto estratégico que nos serviría de base, para ello era necesario abatir al contrario con toda nuestra fuerza, no escatimamos en munición, ni violencia... Madre anoche en las trincheras vía al enemigo correr hacia mi, le apunte con mi fusil y sin darle tiempo a reaccionar le dispare; algo raro paso en ese momento, ya había matado a más gente antes pero en aquel chicho había algo distinto, una luz ilumino su rostro, la cara del enemigo al que asesinaba… madre era mi amigo José, mi compañero de la escuela, nuestro vecino, el hijo de Francisca, mi mejor amigo, con quien tanto yo jugué a soldados y a trincheras. Madre ahora el juego es verdad, no hay risas, solo oscuridad y llantos, no volveremos a jugar jamás, ¡lo están enterrando! Lo siento muchísimo, te pido perdón madre pero ya no aguanto mas aquí, me quiero morir, estoy harto de esta guerra, ¡no se dan cuenta que no va a ganar nadie joder! Tal vez te vuelva a escribir, pero la próxima que lo haga será desde el cielo, donde encontrare a José y jugaremos de nuevo. Madre ten por seguro que si mi sangre fuera tinta y mi corazón tintero, con la sangre de mi venas, te escribiría un “TE QUIERO”.
Hasta siempre.

[@szymonstaszak5765]

Najgorsza rzecz w wojnach domowych

[@TheRetroGuy83]

Bueno, esa supuesta carta tiene un poco de mito, no se sabe muy bien la canción de donde vino, probablemente de campamentos de boy scouts o religiosos de los años 60/70s.
Le ocurre como a la famosa carta del jefe Siux, demasiado buena, para ser verdad, en realidad fue creada en los años 60s con el movimiento hippie, pero si basada en una carta que a su vez se hizo 30 años después de un discurso del jefe Seattle en 1854. Y aun más, la version que suele conocerse en internet, es de los años 80s..

[@ferra098]

@@TheRetroGuy83 A ver, la canción es obviamente una adaptación. Pero hasta donde sé, la carta tiene propietario con nombre y apellidos.

[@TheRetroGuy83]

@@ferra098 Quien, Andrew Blanchtt Kensington periodista del NY Times? He buscado por internet en ingles, con nombres similares, blanchett kessington,... y NADA.

[@ferra098]

@@TheRetroGuy83 Jajaj no sé, me acordé de la canción, la busqué y la copié. Hará diez años que no le doy vueltas al tema más allá de cuando la tarareo. Pero en su momento te garantizo que leí algún artículo que explicaba de qué pueblo era y todo. Si me pides enlace... Pues no lo tengo. Que me la hayan colado? Pues a saber

[@YoussefDaanBenAmor]

Always interesting to consider the high amount of foreign volunteers and foreign legions sent there by states (including the USSR Italy and Germany) that all participated in the civil war. Kind of gives you a feeling that this was a 20th century European proxy war.

[@dement_tf2maybe]

Interesting, never thought of it like that

[@ivanmargosdoesEverything.2923]

Well it was. If their side loses they also lose the opportunity to get an ally and worse, risking it falling into the enemies hands and joining them

[@MilesianPaul]

A lot of Irish too strangely

[@feelcycling]

Right, kind of the first battle against fascism. But the Allies decided to maintain Franco's regime

[@shulky5803]

It was a WW2 proxy war though

[@rubenmicaelo3980]

My portuguese great grandfather worked in france as a mechanic at that time was caught in middle of the conflict as he was passing spain and got arrested by the spanish military , good thing is that it was close to Portugal and after some days in military custody some spanish guards let him go ,"vaya portugues , rapido rapido " and he manage to cross the border back to Portugal 😂

[@liquidsnake6879]

Pissing off Portugal would've been a MAJOR mistake for either side, with Spain divided like that Portugal could've easily swooped in and turned the war in either direction it wished (the fact they supported Franco can be seen as one of the main reasons for early Fracoist success), so he was never really in any danger they were always going to have to let him go, this is not just modern day Portugal, it was colonial Portugal, that could've easily pulled up like a million soldiers like it was nothing from it's African colonies, not a nation you'd want to anger

[@New_Sguy]

@@liquidsnake6879 why would 1 million africans help the portuguese

[@hotman_pt_]

1 million definetly not, but africans were a major part of the colonial garrisons and they activelly fougth in the colonial wars against the rebels@@New_Sguy

[@liquidsnake6879]

@@New_Sguy Not 1 million africans, but 1 million soldiers including reserves from there, they'd do it for the same reason they did during the colonial war, they'd just be conscripted same as the whites.
They were technically Portuguese nationals themselves in those days, there were no independent nations that exist today in those regions. So there wasn't the same distinction that there might be now about the "Portuguese" being a separate people that you're going to "help" you're just being conscripted by your nation same as if Angola called you up today.

[@esense9602]

​@@liquidsnake6879there's no point killing a foreign civilian in a conflict.

[@Trancymind]

My great grandfather avoided this war when he permanently moved to El Salvador in the 1890's. What a smart move. My mother moved to USA in 1974 and avoided the salvadorean civil war (1979-1982) another smart move.

[@hahayouarefunny]

I think you mean lucky. Smart implies inconsiderate things about your family’s countrymen.

[@Trancymind]

@@hahayouarefunnyYup you are right both smart and lucky moves. But if one of them passed away, I wouldn't have existed.

[@andresperedo1275]

It looks very very strange that you used blue for the republicans and red for the nationals, as both sides identified themselves and the others with the exact opposite (red=republican and blue=national)

[@user-vq6jc8uh6p]

I guess it's an USA thing, where the republicans are the right side and represented as red, while the left side is represented as blue.

[@MarkHewitt1978]

@@user-vq6jc8uh6p It is more of a NATO thing, blue is used for friendly and red for enemy. It isn't really to do with US politics the colours of which are relatively recent.

[@robert111k]

He knows nothing about Spain (and its Civil War). For example, the total amount of casualties was about 540.000 according to the demographic data available in wich most of the historians from both sides agree.

[@pable32]

@@robert111k I think casualties includes also wounded, not only dead.

[@tt_charli9604]

@@MarkHewitt1978 indeed i think that red is used for the attackants and blue for defenders

[@Ivsanval]

There are a few minor incorrections, but generally a good work.
Incorrections include:
- Not placing the italians at the helm of the Malaga Ofensive in early 1937, neither at the fall of Bilbao in mid'37.
- Not representing the Republican offensive at Teruel in late 1937 (which actually managed to seize the city, albeit shortly)
- Not representing the Nationalist advance towards Valencia in the spring of 1938, which was stopped around Segorbe in what became the last republican victory of the war
- Leaving the Germans idle around Seville, when the Legion Condor was in fact moving around constantly in support of the Nationalists in most of the relevant battles of the war.
But good work anyway. Your video is well worth watching.

[@SuhbanIo]

there weren't 10k soldiers if there is no flag

[@user-pg3pj3jf9j]

А ещё не было испанских анархистов

[@Philip-0]

The aerial bombing of Guernica killed ~1600 civilians, but the casualty counter only rises by a few hundred on April 26 1937.

[@enekolavinbellido5402]

could be that, but the Condor Legion work was significant anyway. They should not always follow that rule @@SuhbanIo

[@SuhbanIo]

@@enekolavinbellido5402 true

[@thatWerewolf_1289]

This war was bloodier than i expected

[@feelcycling]

Saddly

[@Xgamez01]

ye ik there were 1 million deaths but cuz of the economic crisis after and franco dictator ship the war caused 2.5 million casualtys 1 mllion of the war 400k from execution after war and 1.2 million cuz slavery or starve

[@dachicagoan8185]

Over a million dead and who knows how many injured or disabled

[@LMAO534]

​@@Xgamez01yeah sure commie

[@the_luthum]

​@@dachicagoan8185 Casualties usually count wounded beyond fighting capability as well

[@josem2100]

My grandparents were born in 1933 and 1936 in Murcia. Their lives where marked by this event, there was a lot of hunger everywhere and had to do anything to survive. I'm lucky to still have them and be able to ask them about stories and the way of living at that time, its gives me much perspective into todays life, and how people have became increasingly weaker

[@pma281]

Spaniard here. My grandma once told me that her mother had two sons that fought in the Republican army, both died, and she said she would wear black for the rest of her life if any of them, or both, died. True story that really shows what every Spaniard had to live through at the time to fight for their family and friends, or even for ideology's sake, no matter if they were Nationalist or Republican.

[@logratis1]

Una guerra entre hermanos, provocada por los de Apocalipsis 2:9, creadores y directores del Comunismo y la Masonería.

[@anthonyy9095]

Ta grand-mère était une communiste et ses enfants des salopars.
Franco avait trop attendu et les espagnols étaient en train se faire massacrer par les républicain communiste.

[@Smiley957]

As a Spaniard, your story doesn’t “show the brutality of the war”. Any parent would say something like this regardless of whether if there’s a war going on or not.

[@pma281]

@@Smiley957 yeah, I think my comment doesn't truly show the brutality of the war. Rather, it shows the tragedy family and friends live through it. My bad

[@pma281]

@@Smiley957 I've already edited my comment

[@amirabdulla6076]

I didn't know this war was so gruesome. Seems like it was a notable precursor to the second world war as well.

[@aksmex2576]

Alot of terror bombing of civilians by the Germans and Italians.

[@seanrafabagass]

Indeed, it also a good testing ground for new technology for the soviet and german

[@peterthesneakybastar]

Pretty sure the casualties were closer to 400-500k

[@AnasSaahirHuq-or9bv]

@@peterthesneakybastarThis also includes captured or injured soldiers. The number you are thinking of are fatalities.

[@Novusod]

The war was so gruesome Spain decided to stay out of the 2nd World War. WW2 would have went sideways if Spain joined the Axis. If they captured Gibraltar it would have been a devastating blow for the British. They would not have been able to resupply their troops in North Africa.

[@ferherraiz]

My two grandparents fought in the Spanish Civil War, despite living on each other a few kilometers, one lived in the national zone and the other in the Republican, as the vast majority, they were forcibly recruited and fought on sides in sides opposites.

[@eldariontelcontar278]

Es curioso que al bando republicano lo pinten de azul, y al bando nacional de rojo ... se nota que no lo ha hecho un español ...

[@USA_UNITED1776]

Sorry I dont speak spanish but why would you call them republicans if they were straight up communists?

[@oberonchu6597]

7:46 Mr. Stalin, I don’t feel so good

[@Intel-i7-9700k]

Someone went to the gulag for that one for sure

[@hectorherrero1638]

Holomodor 😘

[@ArgusOnlineIG]

​@@hectorherrero1638 if fake

[@hectorherrero1638]

@@ArgusOnlineIG that we want your think Young goy😉

[@isabelrayas3286]

@@ArgusOnlineIG you*

[@juliuspringles2239]

As an spanish citizen im astonished of how epic and accurate is this video. Well done.

[@galobeaumont529]

No es muy fiel a lo que fue el movimiento del frente real

[@peterthesneakybastar]

Which side do modern Spanish people side with?

[@galobeaumont529]

@@peterthesneakybastar spanish society is very confronted because that conflict, maybe a little bit more supports the spanish republic

[@Ivsanval]

@@peterthesneakybastar Most spaniards were either pro-republican or indifferent a decade ago. Then the left made a law banning apology for Franco and, of course, provoked a surge of support for francoism, mostly to piss off the current leftist goverment. You know how it works, ban something and it will inmediately become trendy.

[@algime17]

And all that people dont know anything

[@lolimateo4610]

I'm Spanish and I think it's a great job. I think many of my fellow citizens, especially the younger ones, should watch this video. There is a lot of ignorance and double standards when it comes to telling this horrible civil war.

[@hokumdog]

The republicans were godless nun raping subhumans

[@Atreas1845]

FRANCO, saved Spain from being the Second COMMUNIST Country in Europe along with ROMANIA.

[@miguelcarunchod.1493]

Horrible proxy* civil war. And the pattern for many to come.

[@patag2677]

España una, España grande, España libre

[@lagartijadeaqui9996]

@@patag2677 los nietos de los rojos que no se pudieron matar, nunca os daremos tregua ni paz.

[@brads.260]

The allies and russians threw the game by forgetting to send volunteers.

[@DerDrako]

The USSR even tried to split the republicans further.

[@brads.260]

@DerDrako I know, I was referencing hearts of iron 4. The video doesn't really show the extent of allied and comintern support the Republicans received during the war and how infighting and the formation of different brigades hailing to their own political ideology was one of the main causes for them to lose the civil war altogether. The nationalist front was united in their goal of winning the war, where as the republic was too busy deciding what they would do after the war.

[@adrv7919]

​@@DerDrakoYes, that's the case with the P.O.U.M militias

[@Open89182]

1.2 Million Casualties (includes wounded people), I didnt know this war was so Bloody

[@aksmex2576]

They also did nazi level crimes after the war was over. Like medical experiments, mass killings and concentration camps.

[@ariton2990]

Wikipedia says way less casualties so i dont know if this video or wikipedia is lying.

[@Batmack]

@@ariton2990 Casualties normally imply killed, wounded, captured, deserters, et cetera. The usual proportions seem to fit with Wikipedia

[@Manuel_Bache]

​@@aksmex2576You're crazy
we wanted bread, water and light after the war. We were busy making babies and have almost no people to make experiment with ...

[@Ivsanval]

It wasn't. Casualties include wounded, captured, etc... Note in the video how in the last days, when the Republic collapses, the number of republican casualties goes up by exactly the same amount of republican troops left before the collapse. The Nationalist casualties figure is less affected by surrendered troops, and if you apply the general principle of 20% dead 80% wounded, then you get close to the figures in wikipedia, which only account for dead soldiers. Then you have to add up the people murdered by rearguard repression in both sides, which should amount to aproximately 60k executions by the republicans and 150k by the nationalists (including post-war executions). If you add civilian deaths from famine, bombings, etc... you will get a final death toll of about half a million people.

[@jugstery]

I think that the interpretation on this video is very good, specifically considering the units shown with flags, I thought it was pretty cool seeing the Italian troops pouring in. Thank you for the wonderful productions.
Edit: This is my first RUclips Post with over 100 likes so thank you all!

[@IreneSalmakis]

It would have been nice to see the anarchists of Catalonia, the POUM militias, and other factions within the republic.

[@user-microburst]

They had a bad time in Guadalajara

[@miguelrodriguezluque7742]

​@@user-microburstnothing new, italians being italians in war

[@user-microburst]

@@miguelrodriguezluque7742only during WW1 and 2. Otherwise italians used to be quite badass fighters

[@miguelrodriguezluque7742]

@@user-microburst well, they didn't do much better in Ethiopia hahaha but yeah, I agree with you

[@ohhi1134]

Amazing video, so well put together, thank you!

[@mariusmihai1292]

I have huge respect and love for Spain.

[@JmtcOriginal]

We appreciate that

[@IndusRiverFlow]

JRR Tolkien supported the Nationalists in this war, interestingly enough. He was an admirer of Roy Campbell, who he compared to Aragorn (then named Trotter) in a letter. Campbell was a British fascist who fought in Malaga against the Republican General Villalba. According to Tolkien he recovered a religious artifact that the general had looted.

[@davidlopez6703]

He knew how evil the Republic was

[@hello-rq8kf]

based tolkien

[@pedroeldiablo811]

​@@davidlopez6703nationalists executing thousands of civilians isn't evil to you ?

[@pedroeldiablo811]

Yeah Tolkien was clearly closer to fascism than socialism, to say the least.

[@user-microburst]

Tolkien abhorred of totalitarianism, the Soviet one even more than the nazi. Most people believe the nationalists were a bunch of bad guys who toppled a proper democratic regime, like the French Republic or the UK. But it was very far from that. The Communists and anarchists and such wanted a proletarian revolution (they failed the coup in 34). The nationalist coup of 36 was bound to happen. Also, the spanish fascists acquired ten times the influence and importance at the onset. They were few before the war. Later Franco got them in his pocket, for he was no fascist, but the staunchest “Franquista” of them all.

[@alomaralsulaiman6501]

Mussolini giving a speech in German language is pure comedy

[@Vetiyx]

lmao exactly it was kinda funny

[@noobster4779]

Took me compleatly of guard honestly
Not sure if he spoke german or just read his script, but his pronounciation was definetly not that bad

[@Aldebaran80]

i don't know because i don't understand german... he speaks it bad?

[@Mozedo]

that Hitler speech with japanese captions was there too.

[@conny5296]

@@noobster4779 he used to live in swiss so there he got it from

[@kuk2394]

Una de las historias más tristes de este país. A día de hoy, aún tenemos heridas y nos cuesta remontar aquel momento.

[@ElArchivador]

Con franco ocurría 20 veces menos violaciones q ahora y la natalidad era la de un país con futuro , ahora es la de un país al borde de desaparecer para siempre.

[@Astures]

Porque no interesa a los políticos para poder ir vareandote a donde quieren.

[@javiervll8077]

Destacar que el golpe de Estado de julio de 1936 contra la Segunda República española comenzó en Melilla el 17 de julio de 1936 y de allí se extendió al Protectorado español de Marruecos y a las Islas Canarias, quedando también ambos territorios en zona franquista. Fue clave el puente aéreo entre el Protectorado y las provincias de Cádiz y Sevilla para trasladar las tropas coloniales de Marruecos a la Península para marchar hasta Madrid.

[@robert111k]

No sé si llamarlo "golpe de estado". Dos años antes hubo otro parecido del PSOE contra el gobierno republicano legítimamente elegido (no como en las elecciones de febrero del 36) y ha pasado a la historia como "Revolución de Asturias". Como dice el dicho: o todos moros...

[@carlosruizdeeguino5621]

Fue una revolución contra la tiranía de la República de izquierdas.

[@Christian-rb8wk]

Gracias a Dios por el levantamiento contra la inmundicia comunista.

[@nacionalistagalego]

​@@Christian-rb8wkMenudos patriotas, matando a medio millón de españoles y hundiendo el país

[@ene5227]

Pues esperese que estemos en el día del Gran Juicio, allí en ese día será el 2-0...

[@iseaman]

This civil war marked all of Europe

[@DefinitelyNotHidan]

Ikr? Imagined if the Republican were the one who won

[@moondiegordr]

How?

[@ivanvladimir0435]

@@moondiegordr A lot of the warfare methods used by the axis were tested in there, and had the republic won spain would have been another battlefield during operation barbarossa

[@feelcycling]

​@@ivanvladimir0435
Right. Picasso's painting of "Gernika" was de representation of the bombing over Guernica by the German nazi and Italian fascist aviation

[@manucracklol1582]

If the republic was victorious probably today we were communist

[@Mister.Unknown]

It's so sad that, counterintuitively, Franco's ruthlessness is what extended the war for so long. Madrid was at his hand relatively early in the war, yet he chose, and stuck with "Victory without conditions" and, almost literally, bled the republican band to death, instead of granting them a dignified coup de grace early on. He knew full well what he was doing, and that, in order to save "his half" of the country, he would have to genuinely sacrifice almost the entirety of the "other half".

[@PargusAuriga]

Great video, thanks!

[@CobraForce007]

Franco achieved the rank of General at 25 one of the youngest generals in history like Napoleon.

[@thebigflop3118]

Because spain is very corrupt

[@feelcycling]

Yeah, and both demonstrated great hability when it comes to kill people

[@kabodra]

​@@feelcycling I have a genuine question. Are you Italian?

[@feelcycling]

@@kabodra nope

[@rrn7689]

@@feelcycling do you realize that that war ended 84 years ago?

[@nullpointer7]

Hi there! Great work video!
My great grandfather, one of them, was on republic side as volunteer after a luftwaffe warplane almost kill him on the mountais. His horse didn't had so luck an die. He told me terrible stories about, brothers fighting each other, it was very sad.
After the end of the war, he was continuing fighting in the mountains with other rebels. But unfortunately, the allies(EEUU, UK, ...) Didn't help republic side and my grear grandfather lost all hopes. He had to surrender, he almost die.
I never forget one thing he said to me about war: "las guerras son muy malas, pero las guerras civiles son lo peor." Honor to Valeriano García, my great grandfather, RIP.

[@manu_rm5525]

God Bless him

[@RuheForst1949]

Based great grandfather

[@spanishmapper671]

This war was the worst thing that could happen to spain. God bless him.

[@basedkaiser5352]

Should've joined the Nationalists.

[@spanishmapper671]

@@basedkaiser5352 ur probably not even spanish, u shouldnt give your opinion if you dont even know about what happened.

[@AunbisDirectingSouls]

War sucks, but this channel is fucking awesome.

[@sld1776]

Really puts it into perspective it was a war of attrition.

[@Ediel_cool]

Spain will never die!1!1!1

[@feelcycling]

Unless Spaniards decide to end up with each others 😂

[@Ediel_cool]

​@@feelcyclinge

[@georgezee5173]

Spain is going to disappear in less than 100 years (and I'm being generous). It will become a Moroccan province. The invasion has already started.

[@TheD4rkGamesXD]

No soy de españa pero tiene bastante potencial e historia increible y no se tiene que derrumbar nunca, VIVA ESPAÑA

[@Simplemente_novato]

​@@andromeda45188Espero y lo hayas dicho de broma...

[@Xgamez01]

@@andromeda45188por no poner pared

[@Xgamez01]

@@andromeda45188no ya enserio latam se emprovecio el mismo por querer idependencia mexico argentina peru colombia la quisieron pos la tuvieron ahora si no se independencaria españa y latam si fuesen solo un pais tendria la 3 economia mas grande del mundo

[@TheMrCrowle]

@@Simplemente_novato En realidad si tiene razon en que nos hayan explotado, pero su comentario está fuera de lugar con el tema del vídeo, que es muy interesante

[@Simplemente_novato]

@@TheMrCrowle No niego que nos hayan maltratado ni nada , pero la cantidad de oro que se llevó España en sus más de 300 años en América es la misma que produce Perú en tan solo 1 año , osea casi nada.
Y al final de cuentas , España no tiene nada que ver con que nuestros países sean pobres , la gente que vive en el país es culpable del estado del país al ser esta gente la que maneja al país.

[@brok8085]

The spanisch civil war is a canon event

[@yemannwaiphyo8817]

The Italians really helped out Franco's Forces. The were at the Assault Forefront when big maneuvers happened, and one of the many reasons Italy performed less in WW2 was because italy was bankrupt from supporting and supplying Nationalist Spain, and needed a lot more time to refurbish the Nation's Economy and Army.

[@ismaelguzman8256]

By 1938 80% of soldiers in the Italian CTV were spanish so they weren't that ''helpful''

[@robert111k]

Hahaha. The Italians where mocked by the Nationalist side (Franco's) themselves because of their cowardice. Look up for the Battle of Guadalajara. There are even jocking couplets dedicated to them

[@alfonso87ful]

My granddather fought with nationalist as a young captain and he said italians would here a shot and run away quickly. They never saw it as their war

[@GXSergio]

Where did you hear that? Italians barely participated on air bombing campaings, they took advantage of the war as a training platform for their novel air force.

[@ciudadanodelmundo4206]

Los alemanes también apoyaron al bando nacional (fascistas) de hecho probaron todos sus nuevos "juguetes" en España, justo antes de que "empezara" la ll.G.M

[@ColonelSandersVI]

My Hoi4 knowledge is helping me understand.

[@albertomunoyerro5562]

I am from spain and my grandmother was a kid at the start of the war. She told me how the republicans send arround 20 men to asegurate the town and try burned the churc. From a bigger town near mine (arevalo) the guardia civil (like military police) came to the town and captured it for the nacionales. No more figthing happen and it stayed in nacional hand troufth all of the war. His father and 2 uncles when to war. All survive, and one was in a republican concentration camp

[@Pao234_]

Asegurar = secure

[@rocket1399]

What did your grandmother say about life under Franco?
Qué abuela dice lo que vida en España Franquista (no hablo bien castellano)

[@pedroeldiablo811]

I always like how some people are shocked that some churches were burned to make the republicans look bad, but it doesn't seem to bother them that a democratic gov was destroyed by fascists who executed dozens of thousands of civilians during and after the war and did numerous crimes, torture, etc.

[@ChSugnwhtm]

@@rocket1399 Mine was born in 1919 . She told me that even though laws were unfair to women, she liked that society much better than the 90´s under ¨democracy¨ and modern degeneracy.

[@kasperfz]

​@@rocket1399 That depends a lot on which side were you in. If you were a republican in fascist spain, you had it very very rough. If you were a fascist in the republic you had it very very rough. The thing is, a lot of people didn't want to take a side, so that made them the enemy or they were forced to fight. As you can see, a very dark time for a lot of people, before, during and after the civil war.

[@huberthuanqui]

It is also interesting to see the actions of the central banks in financing the war, which were very clever plays.

[@dsl5693]

La familia march...

[@redgokudera]

My great grandfather deserted from Madrid and got exiled in southern Brazil. He served in the Brigada Mixta, but when their numbers were dwindling and they were about to form the 11th división, he somehow escaped under enemy lines to Galicia and took a boat to South America.
His original plan was to reach Argentina, but he got stuck here lol.
José Maria González.

[@yanx4797]

Wow, it started and also resolved so fast, but the front line remains unchanged for the majority of the wartime.

[@aulus3792]

3 years is fast?

[@dillonhunt1720]

@@aulus3792 I think he means how fast the frontlines moved when they actually did move.

[@cactuscartocratus7228]

@@aulus3792He meant that the start and end of the war were sudden not that the war itself was fast.

[@ferra098]

Sí, es muy comentado el hecho de cómo Franco fue asegurando los territorios ganados en vez de avanzar terreno. Hay que tener en cuenta que detrás de las filas, en los propios territorios ganados seguían pasando cosas feas para evitar nuevos alzamientos.
Por otra parte, el inicio fue repentino por el crudo contexto de la época, de hecho, en muchos cuarteles alzados se escuchaba el himno de la República, aunque al final todos los alzados se adscribieron al futuro dictador Franco.
Volviendo al tema de la lentitud, muchos de los esfuerzos de la guerra se centran en Asturias (Norte) y Cataluña (Noreste), dos frentes muy complicados y que, una vez resueltos, era fácil prever que los demás se rendirían.

[@user-microburst]

Not fast! It was a failed coup that resulted in a 3 year slaughter of neighbours

[@dlm_182]

que locura verlo así. Si me hubiesen puesto este video antes de explicarme la guerra civil, la hubiese estudiado más motivado por aprender sobre ella

[@i.c.wiener2750]

while the whole world was fighting, Spain was just on a side quest.

[@kasperfz]

I'm spanish and watching this hurted so much. So many dead people. So many kids forced to fight. It's absurd. The worst thing, we learnt NOTHING from all those dead. We are still divided like we were in the past. No politician has come to unite Spain, they always want us divided to create hate and gain more votes. Fuck all of them, Spain doesn't deserve this. I just dream for a better tomorrow on my country, because I love it so much, yet it's so hard to not leave the country for a better place in Europe.

[@Witnessmoo]

Franco saved you from communism dude…
In my country the communists won and we suffered 60 years of hell. They annihilated the intellectuals and clergy and the business culture so totally that it’s taken us 30 years to recover maybe 10% of what we lost. They even blow up ancient churches! Imagine if your country had been subjected to that horror? The tombs of your kids and churches blown up. The Spanish culture being systematically taken apart piece by piece so all you can do is quote Marx or Lenin.
You guys were so fucking lucky Franco saved your asses from that horror.
By the way… the man who enabled the communists to win in my country was a certain man called Mehmet Shehu who fought on the Republican side in Spain… if only Franco had killed him!

[@feelcycling]

That is because no judgement was made after Franco' dead. Everything continues the same and still the victims are searching for the bodies of their parents and grandparents (I think Spain is the seccond -if not the first- country with more people dissapeared in mass graves).
The State has done nothing to repair all the crimes and to properly remember the victims, as other post-dictatorship-states did. In Spain, after 1975 omertá was imposed. It is not the propper way to heal wounds

[@royale7620]

@@feelcycling And its happening again with your beautiful garbage socialists igniting the flames. I think the solution is pretty f-ing obvious, outlaw leftism, put the King in power and keep it Catholic and keep it Spanish as socialists are acting against Spanish interests.

[@ignaciogonzalez7904]

​@@royale7620not only a fascist but also a monarchist, god does punish twice

[@Donkeypapuas]

And the bolcheviks criminals? Those who murdered Calvo Sotelo.

[@neryxax]

Truly bloody war. Happy Spain is having some better times now.

[@pygmy.]

They are the verge of another

[@neryxax]

@@pygmy. yes but it is much better now.

[@pygmy.]

@@neryxax Still major division. Look at whats happened recently.

[@flame-ry7ps]

​@@pygmy. what happened

[@pygmy.]

​@@flame-ry7ps The founder of VOX was shot and Socialist and Catalonian separatists are working together... again

[@submarino006]

Thanks for doing my country!

[@Riketi]

War is the worst aspect of human nature, but even more so are civil wars that destroy coexistence and leave an incurable social fracture for a long time.

[@carlruth5692]

It took the nationalist side a long time to break the Republican side, but when they did, it was over really fast.

[@federicotornices9519]

I don't know how they were informed to make this video, but I am Spanish and I can assure you that the total casualties were 500,000 to 600,000.

[@MarcelinoHernandezMartin-xe7df]

Viva España Saludos Desde México
Somos La Unión Hispana
Feliz Año Nuevo 🇲🇽🤝🇪🇦

[@rebelliousgoath88]

​@@MarcelinoHernandezMartin-xe7dfde rodillas ante mi bandera Tarzán 🇪🇸

[@susomedin5770]

No fueron ni la mitad

[@a_random_lebanese_guy8797]

Request: Lebanese Civil War 🇱🇧 (1975-1990) + nice video btw

[@SushiPadovani]

There was a Lebanese civil war? Wow i didn’t konw

[@DefinitelyNotHidan]

@@SushiPadovani Of course there is

[@WARLORDDOM]

​@@SushiPadovanilmao
It was wild

[@o00nemesis00o]

@@SushiPadovani They took in a lot of Muslim refugees, who decided that the country would be a lot nicer if it were an Islamic state.

[@lolitzdefaltboy5063]

Woah!!!

[@PreGyCT]

Cartagena was the last city conquered during the Civil War, but the map wrongfully reflects its conquest 2 days before when it actually did.

[@goldiefox7128]

Since the Spanish-American War, when Spain lost many overseas colonies, Spain was an internal disaster. In the early 20th century, poverty and inequality were extremely widespread, thanks to an ineffective monarchy. As is normal with these kinds of conditions, the people found solidarity in political parties and organizations. On one side, we have the Nationalists. Landowners, devout Roman Catholics, aristocrats, military generals, and businessmen. On the other side, we have the Republicans. Middle class people, agricultural workers, and the lower class. It’s important to note and be aware of what the Spanish Civil War was NOT. It was not necessarily fascists against communists. There were moderates and extremists on both sides. Many moderate conservatives identified with the nationalists, and many moderate Republicans were, well, Republicans. However, they both had their extremes. The nationalists had many fascists, and the Republicans had many members who were anarchists.
In 1931, the Second Spanish Republic was founded. A fairly moderate, average democracy, it promised things like human and workers’ rights. However, these were the Republic’s fatal flaws. See, in the years prior, politics grew increasingly polarized, and once the Republic came around and attempted to compromise with both sides, neither side was particularly happy.
Now to the outbreak of the war itself. On February 16, 1936, the election was won by the Spanish Popular Front, which was a coalition of the leftist and anti-fascist elements of Spain. The nationalists were not happy, and on July 17th, the nationalists, led by Francisco Franco, attempted a coup to overthrow the ruling party and install a fascist regime. The Popular Front was not willing to step down, so they took up arms. Thus began the Spanish civil war

[@begigachad]

Great video. Keep going. Viva la Spania.

[@elmexo4375]

La Spania 💀

[@USA_UNITED1776]

What fucking language even is that

[@TheCountZopolai]

I always thought the Spanish Civil War had a strong claim to be considered a part of WW2, if not indeed the *outbreak* of WW2 in Europe.
Plainly it's thematically very similar- you have formal Soviet support making common cause with informal Western support backing up one proxy, and Italy and Germany backing up the other. Then there's the timing- the time between the end of the Spanish Civil War and the invasion of Poland was 5 months, and the time between the end of *that* and the invasion of France was 7 months... all seems part of a continuum to me.
Same with the Sino-Japanese element of the War before 1939. I've never really understood treating this war as being a *separate* war until the involvement of the West, and then a part of wider WW2.
I do sometimes wonder if it's not just Anglophone hubris that leads us to overlook these events.. on the basis that we weren't directly involved. Maybe that's going too far, but still...

[@ismaelguzman8256]

In Asia Japanese invasion of China is considered WW2

[@mwittmann68]

It's a prequel to WW2. The nazis and Italians could try their weapons during this war to prepare themselves for the incoming war.

[@TheCountZopolai]

I mean yes, that is the conventional view. But I suppose my perspective is that this *undersells* the degree of connection with wider WW2

[@ismaelguzman8256]

@@mwittmann68 I think that the whole concept of the powers of the ww2 trying their weapons in proxy wars is a bit wrong .
Like they didnt extract practically nothing from these wars that they could use it was a really different type of war

[@TheCountZopolai]

@@LeeZaslofsky It's not nearly as clear cut as that. As at 3 September 1939, only Germany, Poland, France, the UK, and some of their colonies or protectorates were at war, and from the French and British perspective, that wasn't much more than a proxy war.
A lot of the really big players- Italy, the USSR, the USA, or indeed anyone else in Europe- weren't involved at that point.
The Spanish Civil War saw outright proxy war between Germany, Italy, and the USSR and a very large number of foreign volunteers from almost every European state.
Personally, I don't see much of a difference. A proxy war is a very real thing- if not, there would be no Western-Russian conflict in Ukraine, which is just obviously wrong.
And of course, all of that ignores the Pacific Theatre, which was in a continuous state of international conflict (the Second Sino-Japanese War) from 1937 to 1945, though I accept we're talking about the European context.

[@alejandrosotomartin9720]

Congratulations for your map.

[@Lxz3]

My great-grandfather had to fight with the Republicans because depending on who got first to the place where you lived, they recruited you and you had no other option.
But then he managed to switch to the other side, that of the “rebels” or “sublevados”. Republicans almost killed him for deserting and rebels for thinking that he was from the other side.
So he told what they did because he had been on both sides and he said that one of the reasons why the Republicans lost the war was that they destroyed and burned everything in their path so when they had to retreat they had no supplies and they also began to have disagreements and kill each other.

[@darekfodor2168]

Thank you so much!

[@Carlosyo2905]

Well, the advance of the Franco's army was from South to North, Badajoz es the first battle and was attacked by the army from Africa, not as the video, you forgot the battle of Toledo and Guadarrama battle in the south of Madrid also Teruel was a subleved city, was taken by Republic's army and retaken by Franco, in the North also are mistakes and so, well it is difficult

[@danielcaiado6924]

I'm glad Franco won but I'm glad Orwell didn't die also.

[@joeannandale6047]

Love Spain and the Spanish people, just here because I finished reading George Orwell’s ‘Homeage to Catalonia’ which followed his time as a militiaman on the frontline during this period.

[@varunrajesh6516]

Imagine being the Portugese during this war. A bloody Civil War is happening literally just next door and there's nothing you can do but just wait it out and hope it doesn't spill over to Portugese land on accident (misfired rocket for example).

[@Rodklavier]

Curioso que Portugal apoyara de forma monetaria a franco ya que en Portugal tenía una dictadura fascista

[@seanrafabagass]

​@@Rodklavierthat's why it shown portugal in red shade similiar to the nationalist

[@algime17]

En q momento portugal fue fascista? No confundan autoritario y fascista

[@hotman_pt_]

portugal wasnt fascist, it was totallitary@@Rodklavier

[@Rodklavier]

@@hotman_pt_ fine fine i retracted sorry

[@dimk5960]

After the ww2 the proxy war between ussr and the west moved to Greece as a civil war

[@CubeAnimator]

I wonder why this even was a thing

[@FootageFactory]

The reason the war started, is because one side wanted less yellow in their flag.

[@lothar29]

😓😭😭We are repeating history. my grandparents died in this war

[@luke.4317]

wich side?

[@Alex-oj1pm]

Que mas da de que bando sean mameluco

[@donizetebelinato2808]

Awesome, Thank You! Please do one about War of Paraguay: 1864 - 1870

[@poyorudo]

Mis abuelos tuvieron que emigrar a Venezuela durante la guerra y no pudieron volver hasta que murió Franco y aun después, vivieron con miedo el resto de sus vidas por temor a que les vinieran a buscar a sus casas cualquier noche mientras dormían para asesinarlos. Es por eso que odio tanto a los políticos que tenemos ahora que solo piensan en dividir a la población. Esa guerra no la ganó nadie y parece que algunos todavía no se han dado cuenta. España es un país muy bonito pero su gente es tóxica.

[@PipeFreeStep]

Colours are inverted, because in the right side were Socialist and comunist must go on red, and the enemies at the left were the "blue army" (el ejército azul).
And it's missing the help of Stalin to the comunists...
But rest of things are correct.

[@tefky7964]

Right when I finished Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia". What a tragic, overlooked conflict.

[@me67galaxylife]

Tragic because if the "republicans" won the communist would have taken power and things would have been even worst

[@tefky7964]

​@@me67galaxylife 1.Communists weren´t trying to create communist Spain. That was one of big parts of the book.
2.Communists got power mostly because Soviets were only major country supporting republicans. If democratic countries supported them democratic forces on the republican side would have much stronger position.

[@me67galaxylife]

@@tefky7964 Hum yes they were. Any communist party has the goal of taking power. And they sure as hell would have if they weren't already in power if they won, and things would have been 10 times worst for post war spain.
And, why does it matter if it's "because democratic countries didn't support enough", the communists would have still taken power regardless which is the point. Even if more democratic support was given the communist would have attempted a takeover anyway. That's how communism works and has worked throughout history.

[@IAmTh3Doom]

FYI: Catalonia was never a country or a kingdom, they love to try get people mistaken with it. They pretty much stole evything from the Kingdom of Valencia (later joined the Kingdom of Aragón): Their language, culture, history...

[@tefky7964]

@@IAmTh3Doom So?

[@fmm3892]

Como buen español, me emociono al ver este video. nuestros políticos y potencias extranjeras están intentando destruir España. Pero volveremos a vencer una vez más

[@iggyboo5075]

Foreign powers? I suspect, Russia is being not guilty now.

[@pablogomezperez3927]

La representación es mala, al principio de la guerra fue del sur hacia el norte pasando por Extremadura y parte de Andalucía con el objetivo de llegar a Madrid pero acabaron llegando a Toledo. También el desembarco a las islas de mallorca que ni siquiera esta. Por ultimo el final de la guerra, los republicano se rindieron en el 27 de marzo cuando los sublevados aun no habían conquistado ni castilla la nueva ni la comunidad valenciana.

[@MacElMasMancoDeTodos]

15 de junio de 1936, Valencia.
Manuel Azaña, en el lado de los partidos republicanos y las asociaciones de proletarios, envia un mensaje de radio a toda España.
Los falangistas, militantes de la CEDA y los militares a favor del cambio, reciben la chispa que necesitaban para alzarse.
Azaña preguntó a los españoles:
"La tortilla con o sin cebolla?"
Y asi empezó la guerra...

[@theworldisyours2944]

sublime. excelente. gracias!

[@javiervll8077]

It should be noted that the coup d'état of July 1936 against the Second Spanish Republic began in Melilla on July 17, 1936 and from there spread to the Spanish Protectorate of Morocco and the Canary Islands, both territories also remaining in the Franco zone. The air bridge between the Protectorate and the provinces of Cádiz and Seville was key to transferring the colonial troops from Morocco to the Peninsula to march to Madrid.

[@Isidroalfa]

Así sí. En inglés, el idioma de los progres acomplejados. Jajajajajajaja.

[@LMAO534]

​@@Isidroalfajaja

[@AnasSaahirHuq-or9bv]

@@IsidroalfaMost people here know English, if everything here was in Spanish then that would limit the amount of views and comments this video gets. It is important to have more people know about this conflict than just Spaniards.

[@Isidroalfa]

@@AnasSaahirHuq-or9bv Todo el mundo habla inglés…sobre todo tú que eres “británico”, jajaja.

[@gitanoerrante84]

@@AnasSaahirHuq-or9bv more people in the world know the truth about this conflict than the spanish themselves

[@jonny-b4954]

They held the north for a few months eh? War seems to have been static for quite long periods. Hahah Would be cool if it was a period accurate map (with roadways, cities etc) as you can't forget how insanely much the world has built up the last 75 years. Like, easily doubled in size of settled areas, density etc.

[@LeHispania]

HAY QUE RESISTIR 🥶🥶🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸

[@Dilley_G45]

Didn't know Mussolini could speak German. Strong accent but understandable

[@LibertyAnd1776]

But I thought the 50/50 split in land control happens on day 1 of the Spanish Civil War. It says so in hoi4!

[@feelcycling]

Lets say people divided in two, but the revolted army had to came from Morocco, where they had been posted by the gouvernment at the time the coup was planified

[@aulus3792]

Hoi isn't that inaccurate for a long time except the stupid anarchist uprising that ruin everything. But the starting borders are kinda accurate and the position of international support. That being said economy is very inaccurate as republic should be waaaaaay stronger in that regard but nationalists start only a little bit weaker and after taking Bilbao they are actually stronger industrial wise.

[@dillonhunt1720]

HOI4 thinks Vikund Quisling was able to muster a large army and navy while also taking complete control of Oslo hours into the German invasion of Norway. Paradox makes fantasy games.

[@aulus3792]

@@dillonhunt1720 Paradox forgot about Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939 and forget that Warsaw wasnt captured in quick raid and that it was held until the last days of war while being totally encircled and cut off from anything and that Poland didnt surrender right away after losing it like France which is ruled by Blum because they forgot about Daladier and many more.

[@New_Sguy]

@@aulus3792 dude not everything has to be historial how the fuck is poland gonna hold out while i do 40 cas damage and have 2 medium tank template heading to warsaw

[@Waksen_yt]

A million and more lives lost, even more ruined, a generation lost, a tragedy we should never forget

[@blight1934]

What happened at the final days of the republic. I saw some units retreating and disappeared. Were they destroyed or just routed and surrendered? Or did they go into hiding knowing the war is lost?

[@DefinitelyNotHidan]

If the Republic won the war. I couldn't imagined how communist Spain will interact with USSR in the cold war after WW2 ended

[@miliba]

Spain wouldve been devastated by WW2 had the Republic won. Franco was able to keep Spain neutral and rebuild

[@masfishing3614]

​@@miliba Neutral? he sent troops to fight URSS along the nazis

[@DM-qj7eh]

@@masfishing3614indeed but still if spain was communist im sure the nazis would have invaded and ravaged the country. Also those troops he sent were officially "volunteers" because Spain was technically "neutral" even if Franco had sympathies for the Nazis

[@aulus3792]

Republic wasnt communist but they didnt have any other ally that tried to help them in any way. You may never heard of it but 2nd biggest "ally" of the republic was probably Poland which was selling outdated equipment, that's how bad the situation was for them. If the republic would win they would try to cut off soviet influence.

[@rrn7689]

@@aulus3792 at the beginning it was quite plural, but at the end of the war everything was controlled by people and ideas close to the USSR. The dissolution of the "milicias populares" and the creation of the "Ejército Popular de la República", and the repression against anarchists and parties considered "lukewarm" or Trotskyists was the turning point that led to this.

[@tonaperez60]

Viva España!!

[@MarcelinoHernandezMartin-xe7df]

Viva España Saludos Desde México
🇲🇽🤝🇪🇦

[@user-goop1769]

Wow thanks for doing my idea

[@JoseTorres-ni3fr]

Great job

[@creation662]

as a spanish, this is very accurate and low-key mythical with the speeches given during the war. I'm proud of my country's history, as we have a very old and rich one

[@maynardburger]

Just cuz you're proud to be Spanish shouldn't mean you take pride in ALL of its history. This Civil War was not a shining part of Spanish history at all, especially with the fascists winning.

[@iggyboo5075]

You have, señor! Viva Christo Rey!

[@techelitesareadisease8816]

@@maynardburger The righteous, Christian side winning is absolutely a shining part.

[@s-m-i-l-e-e-x-e-]

Hace menos de 100 años y parece que ya se le ha olvidado al mundo... Recordamos a todos aquellos que murieron por la libertad.

[@LPnoa]

Viva España y viva Franco!

[@Christian-rb8wk]

@@LPnoa Viva

[@ezkatonibw2225]

España fue liberada del comunismo y avanzó más aue nunca

[@arnaul_de_lapras5853]

@@LPnoa Qué es lo que te gusta de franco. Y no me digas las presas.

[@LPnoa]

@@arnaul_de_lapras5853 ¿Que instauró la democracia en España tras dos repúblicas fallidas que casi arruinaron el país, y evitó que entráramos en la 2a guerra mundial? ¿No te parece suficiente (además de las presas)?

[@DhaarioHD]

I am from Spain, 100% Valencian. This war was key to the history of Europe, once you see the real context.
I do not support the dictatorship, and the last towns to fall like:
-Castilla la Mancha: South center of the peninsula, just below Madrid. Its citizens were heavily punished even after the war and today they have the reputation of being pro-dictatorship, when they are very peaceful people, from whom the dictator extracted their industry, imposing laws that today do not allow them to industrialize. Its people were greatly humiliated after the war, and there are small towns and villages that were built around a certain factory that today was extracted to the north.
We Valencians had high executions and humiliations, which we continue to suffer to this day.
I just want to leave this message because in the last 4 years, history, along with bodybuilding, has become one of my passions and I have had to research hard and travel to be able to see this situation.
I include this message because many of my compatriots are unaware of all this.

[@1995LEBRONJAMES1995]

Cool video! As I’m Spanish I need to express how funny/unfortunate the choice of colours is from my perspective. To represent the side of Nationals you could find better than red. 😅

[@sirsancti5504]

It's a NATO thing.. Red for attackers, blue for defenders.
(I know, it's a civil war.. I guess "attackers" are the ones going to change the regime, opposed to the ones that wanted to keep it).

[@user-ig3il9wh2l]

De todas la vida se llamó, rojos o azules. No es porque el autor del vídeo quiso poner ese color.

[@1995LEBRONJAMES1995]

@@user-ig3il9wh2l están los colores al revés inculto

[@manueld848]

@@user-ig3il9wh2l Pero aquí están intercambiados los colores; de ahí el comentario.

[@manueld848]

@@sirsancti5504 Para identificar a atacantes y defensores en este vídeo, no hace falta recurrir a argumentos políticos, sino solo visuales. Los atacantes son los que avanzan victoriosos, y los defensores los que retroceden.

[@JuanSebastianParraMartin-uj8xg]

Crazy how at the end of the war is when is the bloodiest for the losing part

[@feelcycling]

Franco didn't take prisoners. He directly killed them. Also after war

[@JosephStalin-sv5lm]

3:48 What is happening to Mussolini's hand 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@mathiasmingardi9272]

"my hand is an helicopter, your arguments are invalid"
Joke aside in italy that hand gesture means irritation and "to had enough" to the counterpart arguments

[@gurufabbes1]

Fall of Madrid was 28th March, 1939. This is the culminating end of the war.

[@Robertperezshow]

From a global empire to a fractured peninsula

[@pma281]

Basically that, but I don't want a second Spanish Empire bc that'd never happen again like it did from the late 15th to the 19th century

[@acusticamenteconvusional9936]

thats every empire in history

[@pma281]

@@acusticamenteconvusional9936 yup, all empires had rises and downfalls...always has been

[@Joridiy]

Not really. Look at France, Netherlands, UK and USA. They even got to keep part of their former colonial empires

[@pma281]

@@Joridiy u know they're called overseas territories, right?

[@Alice-Angel-Demon]

If you are German and understand what they say.

[@creedgamingpizza]

how did you make this? editing or using some app or website?

[@sergiudina2507]

Perhaps this helps someone understand a little more why Catalonia wants the independence. And how the present Spain was constructed. In any case, I don't think I have ever experienced such pain watching numbers grow.

[@Loxu69]

Also the years of oppression that the people of Catalonia felt under Francos reign

[@lucadeluca-nq7lv]

In the war you can see some italy troops and nazi troops

[@GregHeffley19]

i saw nazi and italian troops

[@BBebroslav]

That's how it was

[@newhoi4guy]

volunteers (or what in hoi4 they say)

[@SerbianGuyAntiOgism]

Fact:Nazi germany and italy are been allies with nationalist spain.

[@harrybuttery2447]

The Italians sent a reasonable number of soldiers to aid the Nationalists.
Germany sent the Condor Legion which was predominately made up of pilots, advisors and such and did not really fight on the ground. They tested a lot of equipment there however and that was where a few German aces got their start.

[@AwoudeX]

What i found amazing is at the start of the war, the nationalists were at a 1:3 disadvantage, still they held strong and made more casualties. Does anyone know how this difference in quality of troops can be explained?

[@scabrous]

Franco and his supporters came from a more military background and there was a lot of infighting between the republican side (communists, socialists, anarquists...) while the nationalists had more of a common goal, but there is probably more nuance than this.

[@AwoudeX]

@@scabrous makes some sense, thanks for replying

[@Axlin52]

The army supported the Nationalist, the republican army was built of civilians, so they had no experience at all,. In the other hand, Francl's army had experience due to the different conflicts in Africa

[@dsl5693]

La historia que escribieron los vencedores dice una cosa, pero la realidad es que sectores capitalistas extranjeros apoyaron al bando franquista, por no hablar de la familia march que hoy sigue siendo la mas poderosa de españa en la sombra.
Hoy españa tiene vendidos todos sus recursos estratégicos al extranjero, y lo único que tenemos es sol y deuda al BCE→ BPI

[@Axlin52]

Si, las brigadas internacionales ayudaron a la republica, el mayor problema era que tampoco tenian experiencia alguna, pues eran todos voluntarios. La Republica tuvo que crear un ejercito desde 0, mientras q el bando sublevado se levanto con la ayuda del ya existente.@@dsl5693