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  • Опубликовано: 14 авг 2024
  • Sheen's uncle Matîas had made efforts to stop the coup d'état at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. He was arrested and charged with military rebellion by a military tribunal, even though Franco's group were not the legitimate government. The tribunal condemned Matías to life imprisonment.
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Комментарии • 327

  • @juanitolopez9731
    @juanitolopez9731 Год назад +77

    I am Spanish, and I am Galician, and I have always admired Martin Sheen (real name Ramón Estevez). He is proud of his origins and of his father's name, and he visits our homeland regularly.

    • @jamesscully529
      @jamesscully529 Год назад +1

      From what I understand, 'Martin Sheen' is truly a stage name and that all of his identification, including passports and drivers license remains Ramón Estevez. He accepts that people call him Martin, but he is still Ramón.

    • @jean6872
      @jean6872 Год назад +1

      Make that: Ramón Estéves. His uncle was steeped in luck to get released after serving only four years in prisons and being under house arrest with a loving family for emotional support is not so bad. So many of Franco's enemies, including scores of innocent children, lost their lives.

    • @davidalons0
      @davidalons0 Год назад +2

      He could be proud of whatever you want, but i don't understand why he doesn't speak any Spanish...

    • @jean6872
      @jean6872 Год назад +7

      @@davidalons0 It's natural, given that he was born in the USA where he grew up.

    • @juanitolopez9731
      @juanitolopez9731 Год назад +1

      @@davidalons0 Yes, that's right. He doesn't speak Spanish, and I don't understand either. Laziness? His sister, a retired teacher, moved from the U.S. to Galicia years ago, and she speaks Spanish perfectly.

  • @TheGrandkarl
    @TheGrandkarl Год назад +74

    Irishman here.....so proud of Ramon's ancestors,they,Galicians and Gaelic,fighting for the common man.💚👍💚

    • @tedfebo1741
      @tedfebo1741 Год назад +4

      Galicians are the Spanish version of Gaelics, the Celtiberians.

    • @wandson5410
      @wandson5410 Год назад +4

      ​@@tedfebo1741No. The celtiberians were the Lusitanians and another tribes in Iberia. The Galaecians were just celtics.

    • @MaxMax-me5gv
      @MaxMax-me5gv Год назад

      @@wandson5410 los gallegos son celtiberos(igual que los castellanos, asturianos,cantabros etc...) , no son unicamente celtas

    • @Vamosalla-fi6yu
      @Vamosalla-fi6yu Год назад

      ​@@MaxMax-me5gvrecuerden que Galicia fue poblada también por los Suevos tras la caída del imperio romano. Los Suevos eran tribus germanicas

    • @MaxMax-me5gv
      @MaxMax-me5gv Год назад +2

      @@Vamosalla-fi6yu minorias , como los visigodos en espana , geneticamente los gallegos no diferencian de los demas europeos

  • @fjp3305
    @fjp3305 Год назад +35

    The Spanish Civil War didn't start in Galicia, it started in Melilla, North Africa, on 17 July 1936.

  • @hombrequemiralaluna
    @hombrequemiralaluna Год назад +18

    Just a quick historical clarification: the war didn't start in Galicia (northwest Spain, north of Portugal), but in the Spanish-controlled northern Morocco and, from there, to the south of Spain. Galicia, as a matter of fact, was one of the first regions to be controlled by Francoist troops, there were minor skirmishes in the region, but nothing major. Matias, as a member of the Communist Party, would have been incarcerated during the summer of 1936.

    • @viquiben4919
      @viquiben4919 6 месяцев назад

      He flew on July 16th 1936 to Morocco from Tenerife where he held the General Captaincy of the Canary Islands.

  • @mmedefarge
    @mmedefarge Год назад +42

    My uncle and father escaped from Asturias and made their way to Cuba, waiting to have a chance to enter the U.S., which they did after WWII.

    • @xalau5270
      @xalau5270 Год назад +3

      Have you visited Asturias? It´s a beautiful land

    • @mmedefarge
      @mmedefarge Год назад +3

      @@xalau5270 I've never been there but I've seen photographs and yes it is beautiful.

  • @steviekenny581
    @steviekenny581 Год назад +44

    A true CELTIC warrior background. Irish and Galician. Incredible family story👏👏👏

  • @andresmartinezlopez6751
    @andresmartinezlopez6751 Год назад +55

    Brave Galicians !!! Brave Irish !!!

    • @marioceva7163
      @marioceva7163 Год назад +1

      Gallegos

    • @kilt825
      @kilt825 Год назад

      @@marioceva7163
      Es la traducción, melón.

    • @marioceva7163
      @marioceva7163 Год назад +1

      @@kilt825 obvio melon.

    • @UnbrokenWillll
      @UnbrokenWillll 11 месяцев назад

      I know Spain has a lot of different influences from the Visigoth Germanic and ummayad North African in the south. And of course the Roman /Latin influence. But isn’t northern Spain and Portugal populations come from Celtic cultures and Celt Iberian tribes that intermarried celts ? My point is not Matter what Martin is still Celtic and it reflects in the way he looks

    • @randalthor1955
      @randalthor1955 Месяц назад

      @@UnbrokenWillll actually Galicia isnt the celtiest region of Spain. the inner and center spain was, if arqueologists, historians and linguistics are right, more connected to the celtic continental world (France, Germany, northern italy....) BUT its true that northern Spain has a genetic link to the british isles dating back to prehistoric times. (being settlers from Spain the first ones to get there some thousand of years BC) at least, thats what DNA studies suggest. everything is quite an incredible thing.

  • @dsan5825
    @dsan5825 Год назад +22

    That relative looks like Emilio, Martins Son.

  • @lstone3633
    @lstone3633 Год назад +35

    I just think the world of Martin Sheen. So sorry his uncle suffered, as so many others did.

  • @Annaorlando22
    @Annaorlando22 Год назад +30

    You can see Emilio in Martin Cheens uncle.. strong genes..

    • @doniehurley7634
      @doniehurley7634 Год назад +2

      My thoughts as well

    • @feliciagaffney1998
      @feliciagaffney1998 Год назад +3

      Agreed. I had the same thought. Lol

    • @EMVelez
      @EMVelez Год назад +2

      Sheen

    • @alicialyons3356
      @alicialyons3356 Год назад +1

      Yes,you are so right. I didn’t realize until you said so.

    • @Annaorlando22
      @Annaorlando22 Год назад

      I spelt his last name wrong. Don't know why I put a C, ? Brain fog.. 😆

  • @johhny711
    @johhny711 Год назад +62

    Interesting that both sides of Martins's family were fighting for freedom, it's obvious where Martin got his bravery from .

    • @alfredodistefanolaulhe2212
      @alfredodistefanolaulhe2212 Год назад +15

      Freedom? Freedom was in the other side. Unless you think freedom is in Popular China and not in Taiwan... facts vs propaganda.

    • @lennartandersson75
      @lennartandersson75 Год назад

      @@alfredodistefanolaulhe2212 Of course, a fascist doesn't like a democratically elected regime!

    • @BrandonjSlippingAway
      @BrandonjSlippingAway Год назад +12

      @@alfredodistefanolaulhe2212 let's see, against fascism and against the suppression or ursupation of democratic self determination. Yeah nah you're talking out of your hole.

    • @alfredodistefanolaulhe2212
      @alfredodistefanolaulhe2212 Год назад +6

      @@BrandonjSlippingAway Blablabla, what kind of freedom you see in North Korea? That's the leftist type of freedom. You have Popular China, there was a Civil War and the chinese liberals won the war against the conservative faction. And what happened? They got 80 years of communist dictatorship. On the other hand you have Taiwan, where the conservative chinese faction is exiled. And what you have there? A democracy, just like in South Korea.
      Facts vs myths.

    • @BrandonjSlippingAway
      @BrandonjSlippingAway Год назад +19

      1) The Spanish Republic was not communist and had a plurality of leftwing ideologies supporting it.
      2) The government was democratically elected.
      3) Your selection bias ignores all the right wing military juntas installed and propped up with (principally) U.S support across Latin America among others.
      4) This post is about both serving the IRA and international brigades and both had a democratic mandate (Sinn Féin's crushing 1918 election victory where their party platform was declaring independence, and foreign volunteers defending the elected sitting government of the Spanish Republic vs a rightwing authoritarian, materially supported by the Nazis.)
      Your bad faith arguments are just pathetic. There's a reason the Spanish right wing try their best to keep the skeletons in the closet of Francoists buried.

  • @76ludlow
    @76ludlow Год назад +96

    Martin can be truly proud of his two uncles who fought for freedom against fascism.

    • @joseignaciodiezsojo3789
      @joseignaciodiezsojo3789 Год назад +1

      Error...sus dos tíos lucharon en el bando de los comunistas de Stalin...la segunda república española no era para nada democrática...se impuso por un golpe de estado, estaba diseñada para que la derecha no pudiera nunca gobernar, se llevó a cabo una terrible persecución contra cualquiera que no fuera izquierdista, se asesinaba a políticos de la oposición, a miles de sacerdotes y monjas...era un régimen dirigido por partidos socialistas y comunistas directamente dependientes de Stalin.

    • @lizaburgos
      @lizaburgos Год назад

      Considering how catholic Martin sheen is, I doubt he is proud. The commies killed many priests, nuns, desecrated churches..killed Catholics because they were Catholics…they are considered martyrs …The persecution was awful and was directed by Freemasons.
      It’s sad how the propaganda continues to brainwash many people’s mind. Same thing with the French Revolution and the Russian revolution. Now you see who is in power - the Freemasons.

    • @eq1373
      @eq1373 Год назад

      What they were fighting for was not freedom.
      The Spanish Civil War was fascism vs. communism.

    • @DeOmnibusDubitandum76
      @DeOmnibusDubitandum76 Год назад

      At least one of them as a communist for the Stalinist Popular Front, nothing to be proud of, much like those on the other side with blood on their hands.

    • @KrGsMrNKusinagi0
      @KrGsMrNKusinagi0 Год назад

      fascists won in spain

  • @bahiras
    @bahiras Год назад +17

    What great DNA has Martin Sheen!

  • @janefitzgibbon4312
    @janefitzgibbon4312 Год назад +17

    What a fantastic story. 👍🏼

  • @Peace28275
    @Peace28275 Год назад +6

    One of my favorite actors in history. I have known for years that he has Spanish and Irish roots. 😀
    I have looked for what Attenuated Prison means and in the RAE (Royal Academy of the Spanish Language) it says Attenuated Prison, it is a type of provisional detention consisting of the fact that the deprivation of liberty of the accused is verified at his home, with the surveillance measures that are necessary, when due to illness the internment entails a serious danger to their health.
    Bravo to your uncle Matías Estevez Martínez for fighting against fascism 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

  • @ifyouvote.5005
    @ifyouvote.5005 Год назад +5

    Most people don't know the connection Eire ànd Galicia have,

  • @SeanRCope
    @SeanRCope Год назад +39

    My Grandfather and his brother was among the American Volunteers of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Grandpa came home his brother Albert was captured and executed by the Italian blackshirts at the Ebro.

    • @AlejandroLopez-ed8kj
      @AlejandroLopez-ed8kj Год назад +18

      You can be proud of them. Thank you from Spain.

    • @SeanRCope
      @SeanRCope Год назад +5

      @@AlejandroLopez-ed8kj they’re my hero’s. Someday we will find Albert and have the decision to bring him home or let him lay.

    • @springstrike10
      @springstrike10 Год назад

      ​@@SeanRCope I'm so sorry about Albert's dead, he really suffered a lot, I wish someday you with your family can come here to take him home, I am very glad that your grandpa survived I hope he have been enjoying a happy and peaceful life with his wife, children and grandchildren, tell him that he will always welcomed here in Spain

    • @hernandemornay7559
      @hernandemornay7559 Год назад +1

      So you grandpa was a traitor too

    • @lennartandersson75
      @lennartandersson75 Год назад +8

      @@hernandemornay7559 And your wheel is turning, but the hamster is dead!

  • @SunnyIlha
    @SunnyIlha Год назад +11

    His ancestor Matias The Uncle battled the great beast fascism.
    He was a soldier against all that was evil dictatorship, against the scourge against Humanity.

    • @sugarkane4830
      @sugarkane4830 Год назад +2

      He was a communist. Different side of the same coin.

    • @DeOmnibusDubitandum76
      @DeOmnibusDubitandum76 Год назад +2

      He appears to have been a militia man for the murderous Popular Front. Not a badge of honour in the least.

  • @debbieflaherty1975
    @debbieflaherty1975 Год назад +6

    History has definitely repeated itself!

  • @actoraa
    @actoraa Год назад +4

    Why does the narrator say the Spanish Civil War started in Galicia? Not much at all happened there.

    • @Xiroi87
      @Xiroi87 Год назад

      The Army there supported the coup from the first moment, I suppose that's what they meant.

  • @WileChile51
    @WileChile51 Год назад +13

    When I close my eyes, I hear the Illusive Man. What an iconic person Mr. Sheen is.

  • @naninickynino
    @naninickynino Год назад +13

    Charlie looks just like his aunt Carmen!

    • @carmendelucas9324
      @carmendelucas9324 Год назад

      Preguntó?la tía Carmen es hermana de este actor Y vive en España...?

    • @whatupgangsta
      @whatupgangsta Год назад

      ​@@carmendelucas9324asi parece

  • @seanheeney4517
    @seanheeney4517 Год назад +14

    Both is Irish and Spanish blood is flowing with revolutionary vervour! Respect!

    • @leatherandtactel
      @leatherandtactel Год назад

      That was decades and centuries ago, now the spanish people are sheeple. In the 19th century we defeated Napoleon, but today the Spanish are a people without blood or initiative that swallows all the lies of the media and the state and submissively obeys.

    • @jamesthefirst8790
      @jamesthefirst8790 Год назад

      Galician and Irish blood is the same... they are the same people. Spanish are mainly "Celtiberos", but Galicians are 100% Celtic like the Irish.

    • @aldozilli1293
      @aldozilli1293 Год назад +1

      @@jamesthefirst8790 There's some distant relation but they're not genetically exactly the same as you state

    • @maritta01
      @maritta01 Год назад

      ​​@@aldozilli1293Europeans are genetically basically the same, differences are minimum, that's why when they mix, their children can look from whatever of both countries. If an Irish person and a Spanish person marry, they can have children who look like native of whatever of both countries, that happens usually between European countries. Looking at pics of his Spanish ancestor, he looks similar to him, and he resembles a lot his Spanish father too, but he can pass as Irish too

    • @aldozilli1293
      @aldozilli1293 Год назад

      @@maritta01 also in Galicia there are generally more blonder blue eyed people than the rest of Spain

  • @klavierish
    @klavierish Год назад +5

    The first Spaniard president of the United States

  • @jimmycarrollgodblesspoland5521
    @jimmycarrollgodblesspoland5521 Год назад +11

    Yes, Irish communists fought against the Fascists during the Spanish civil war, Fine Gael, Michael Collins political party fought on the Fascist side

    • @BrandonjSlippingAway
      @BrandonjSlippingAway Год назад

      Fine Gael didn't even exist when Collins died. You can blame it mostly on that fascist wannabe and alcoholic O'Duffy, and the church for its red scare.

  • @quikstrike9899
    @quikstrike9899 Год назад +2

    In the Spanish Civil War, you either fought for Communism or Fascism. Makes sense that his uncle was Red. He is.

  • @courtneyholland6215
    @courtneyholland6215 Год назад +5

    What an amazing story

  • @aelfycarcini3992
    @aelfycarcini3992 Год назад +3

    Martin Sheen's uncle was a hero!
    And a communist too!
    JUST WOW

  • @Nachscrach
    @Nachscrach Год назад +7

    I think "Prisión atenuada" means "to be on parole"

    • @Peace28275
      @Peace28275 Год назад

      In the RAE (Royal Academy of the Spanish Language) it says Attenuated Prison, it is a type of provisional detention consisting of the fact that the deprivation of liberty of the accused is verified at his home, with the surveillance measures that are necessary, when for reasons of illness the hospitalization entails serious danger to his health.

    • @Nachscrach
      @Nachscrach Год назад +1

      Sí pero tú dices la traducción directa ¿No?¿Existe la categoría " atenuated prisson" como tal en el sistema legal estadounidense o se llama de otra forma?.
      Yo sospecho que "Parole " es el equivalente más cercano en inglés jurídico y por tanto sería la traducción más razonable

    • @Peace28275
      @Peace28275 Год назад

      @@Nachscrach La categoria en el sistema legal estadounidense vendria a ser dimmed prisson.

    • @sexysadie2901
      @sexysadie2901 Год назад

      ​@@Nachscrach No, porque "parole" no implica arresto domiciliario.

  • @alejandragrumbles8232
    @alejandragrumbles8232 Год назад +2

    So interesting! Such marvelous stories

  • @paulurdaneta
    @paulurdaneta Год назад +4

    Wars are horrible. People from all sides suffer. This video though, makes it look as if everything was Ok during the Republic and that suddenly the civil war broke out. If you want to tell the truth, tell the whole truth.

  • @alin81-82
    @alin81-82 Год назад +15

    He must be proud of his relative. He was a fighter.

    • @DeOmnibusDubitandum76
      @DeOmnibusDubitandum76 Год назад

      An outlaw member of the Popular Front militia, by the looks of it. Not much to be proud of.

    • @jamesthefirst8790
      @jamesthefirst8790 Год назад +2

      Yes, he must be proud of him... even if he was fighting for the wrong cause... the "Dictatorship of the Proletariat".

    • @jesusseoane2296
      @jesusseoane2296 Год назад

      @@jamesthefirst8790 that’s just your opinion! ( wrong in my opinion) irrelevant in both cases.

  • @alyu1129
    @alyu1129 Год назад +27

    The Spanish civil war was highly complex. Read up on it first before you decide on the good guy vs bad guy simplified narrative.

    • @valentinr.dominguez2892
      @valentinr.dominguez2892 Год назад +3

      Well said.

    • @Kwijiboz
      @Kwijiboz Год назад +8

      Who made a coup against a democracy that resulted in 3 years of war and atrocities? who then established a 40 year long dictatorship? The conflict and it's origins are indeed very complex, but don't use it as an excuse for fascism and oppression.

    • @valentinr.dominguez2892
      @valentinr.dominguez2892 Год назад +9

      @@Kwijiboz Those atrocities that you mentioned were on both sides. More than 6,000 innocent priests and nuns were killed by the Republican side many of which have been canonized and beatified. The Republican side also burned many churches that were posing no threat to anyone.

    • @eq1373
      @eq1373 Год назад +5

      ​​@@Kwijiboz it didn't start with a coup. And don't use it as an excuse to beatify communists.

    • @rrn7689
      @rrn7689 Год назад +3

      @@Kwijiboz the II Spanish Republic was established after municipal elections, of which there was no total vote count. It is not the best way to legitimize a democracy. That is to say, the Second Republic was established when there was already democracy, what existed before was a parliamentary monarchy...democratic.
      As for the Second Republic itself, at the end of the war, the government was as democratic as they were the Francoist but at the opposite end of the political spectrum from those days. A total disaster when the two strong options are totally extreme.
      This is not as simple as saying some were good and others were bad, so I agree with whoever said that. By the way, my paternal grandfather was an anarchist and my maternal grandfather was a Carlist in that war.

  • @ezequielvega3120
    @ezequielvega3120 Год назад +4

    Celtic blood from both sides: Irish and Galician.

  • @BrandonjSlippingAway
    @BrandonjSlippingAway Год назад +11

    Good on all those who bravely stood against the scourge of fascism. ¡No pasarán!

    • @eq1373
      @eq1373 Год назад +5

      And lost

    • @leatherandtactel
      @leatherandtactel Год назад +2

      It was not fascism, what we had in Spain was a different ideology.

    • @wthwasthat8884
      @wthwasthat8884 Год назад +4

      @@leatherandtactel Fascism applies to it whether you like it or not! If the definition of the word satisfies the criteria, then it's Fascism.

    • @Xiroi87
      @Xiroi87 Год назад +4

      @Miguel Rey no, that wasn't fascism, just a bunch of lovely people, whose gracious actions were misunderstood just because they killed and jailed thousands of people who believed in democracy even after the war was over.

    • @leatherandtactel
      @leatherandtactel Год назад +2

      @@wthwasthat8884 Don't be nervous. It was not fascism because this ideology is exclusive to Italy, it did not occur in any other country. What we had here was an ideology influenced by fascism, but it was not fascism. Not even "Falange", the party closest to fascism, was a fascist party.

  • @willhovell9019
    @willhovell9019 Год назад +7

    Let's not forget the volunteers for the Spanish Republic from Ireland, Wales , Scotland and England in the mid & late 1930s

  • @celticlofts
    @celticlofts 7 дней назад

    Spanish and Irish ancestry - What could be more lethal?

  • @CasaVipera
    @CasaVipera Год назад +3

    Estevez!

  • @jesusseoane2296
    @jesusseoane2296 Год назад

    I just visit San Simon island ( very small island ) very lucky leaving that place alive.

  • @user-eb9pv4dw5p9
    @user-eb9pv4dw5p9 Год назад +1

    Should people from all over the world form an international brigade in the U.S. and fight the 100m fascists there?

    • @Xiroi87
      @Xiroi87 Год назад

      Or you could implement a better school system that doesn't create illiterate idiots unable to think for themselves.

  • @Jude107c
    @Jude107c Год назад

    @ 1:44 His grandmother looked like Charlie!

  • @begonaprada7187
    @begonaprada7187 Год назад +3

    Es curioso pq tanto gallegos como Irlandeses tienen el mismo origen celta.

    • @arturojimenez7087
      @arturojimenez7087 Год назад

      Hay investigaciones que indican que los celtas llegaron a Gran Bretaña desde Galicia.

    • @kilt825
      @kilt825 Год назад +1

      @@arturojimenez7087
      Al revés.

  • @apintofbeer1667
    @apintofbeer1667 Год назад

    Fantastic insight

  • @TheTennesseeFistMachine
    @TheTennesseeFistMachine Год назад +4

    Its good to see that Martin sheen cares more about the history of his bloodline then his son charlie does.

  • @jaimeemattingly1745
    @jaimeemattingly1745 Год назад +12

    So is th name Sheen just a stage name??

    • @Downhomeherbwife
      @Downhomeherbwife Год назад +11

      A family name on his mother's Irish side

    • @marychair10
      @marychair10 Год назад +12

      In fact, the last name Sheen has nothing to do with his family. He took that last name from a Catholic archbishop who appeared frequently on television. 😉

    • @holeefuk413
      @holeefuk413 Год назад +4

      ​@@Downhomeherbwife that was phelan

    • @heraldomedrano1417
      @heraldomedrano1417 Год назад +5

      Spanish came from Europe. 1492🇪🇦

    • @heraldomedrano1417
      @heraldomedrano1417 Год назад +1

      🇪🇦🇮🇪

  • @ardibeltzak1197
    @ardibeltzak1197 Год назад +2

    🤣🤣🤣…ósea, que el Sr. Matías, estaba luchando contra el golpe de estado antes de que este se produjera…

  • @user-eh3ou7oq4w
    @user-eh3ou7oq4w Год назад +1

    Sheen is a 100% Genetic Rebel.

  • @nevereverever1521
    @nevereverever1521 Год назад

    And now (2023) in Spain we are facing the possibility of a comeback of a fascist rise to power.

  • @angloaust1575
    @angloaust1575 Год назад +1

    He did a movie about camino
    In spain however it was a drama rather than a documentary unfortunately
    About problem people!

  • @abelcastrof
    @abelcastrof Год назад +3

    In Spain we fear a big problem with fascism and also with communism

  • @pinquifrustri
    @pinquifrustri Год назад

    Communist were not precisely nuns during the war...

  • @palacio802
    @palacio802 Год назад +36

    Sorry Martin, but everything you've been told here is highly biased. You should talk to someone more moderate to get a true understanding of what happened in Spain. If you think it was a war between democrats and fascists, you are sorely mistaken. I know many people in the United States believe this, but it is false.
    In the Spanish civil war there were several factions fighting, there were probably some fascists, but the bulk of the people on the national side were conservatives. On the republican side, there were people who defended the democratic Republic, but there were also anarchists (whose aim was really to destroy it from within) and there were also socialists and communists, who aspired to a Soviet-style revolution. Many atrocities were committed, on one side AND the other. What is said in the book about your relative is very similar to what has been demonstrated in many other towns, where the forces that supposedly defended legality took the law into their own hands and murdered many people, in addition to assaulting army and civil guard barracks, or burning catholic churches. To affirm that what the book says is "mere propaganda" because it is written by a francoist priest is an ad hominem fallacy. It would be necessary to go to the town and investigate if something of what is reported happened or not. Go and ask the people if you want to know the truth.

    • @Kwijiboz
      @Kwijiboz Год назад +14

      His Uncle was arrested for opposing a coup d' etat against a democracy. The coup was the spark of all that violence, and there' s only one side responsible for that. Sounds like you are just making excuses. That coup resulted also on 40 years of Dictatorship and very limited civil rights in Spain. Please, stop making excuses to defend fascism.

    • @palacio802
      @palacio802 Год назад +23

      @@Kwijiboz you have a great ignorance of the history of Spain. In addition to a dubious judgment capacity and a more than dubious morality.
      In the first place, the violent events in Spain did not start with the coup d'état, but originated well before it. The opposition leader himself, Jose Calvo Sotelo, a member of a right-wing party, was assassinated on July 13, 1936 (5 days before the coup) by left-wing activists. Before the coup, countless violent events had also occurred in many towns in the country. Several parties on the right and on the left had armed militias that sowed terror on the other side. Therefore, what the book tells about Martin Sheen's relative is quite plausible. If it is true or not, it would have to be determined with a field investigation, asking possible witnesses, or relatives of witnesses. Just dismissing it makes no sense.
      My concern is not for those who joined the militias of one side or the other, but for the thousands of people who were neutral and fell victim to the criminal actions of one or the other, who were covered up by those on their side behind the fallacies of the "fight against fascism" or the "fight against communism".

    • @arturojimenez7087
      @arturojimenez7087 Год назад +9

      Un falangista revisionista, supongo.

    • @palacio802
      @palacio802 Год назад

      @@arturojimenez7087 no se exactamente qué hay que revisar aquí, pues son hechos comprobados, que ningún historiador cuestiona, y que incluso figuran en las actas del congreso de la propia Segunda República.
      Por ejemplo, en el acta de 16 de junio de 1936, se hace el siguiente recuento de altercados:
      - Desde el 16 de febrero hasta el 15 de junio, inclusive:
      Iglesias totalmente destruidas, 160. Asaltos de templos, incendios sofocados, destrozos, intentos de asalto, 251. Muertos, 269. Heridos de diferente gravedad, 1.287. Agresiones personales frustradas o cuyas consecuencias no constan, 215. Atracos consumados, 138. Tentativas de atraco, 23. Centros particulares y políticos destruidos, 69. Ídem asaltados, 312. Huelgas generales, 113. Huelgas parciales, 228. Periódicos totalmente destruidos, 10. Asaltos a periódicos, intentos de asalto y destrozos, 33. Bombas y petardos explotados, 146. Recogidas sin explotar, 78.
      - Desde el 13 de mayo al 15 de junio, inclusive:
      Iglesias totalmente destruidas, 36. Asaltos de iglesias, incendios sofocados, destrozos e intentos de asalto, 34. Muertos, 65. Heridos de diferente gravedad, 230.
      Atracos consumados, 24. Centros políticos, públicos y particulares destruidos, 9. Asaltos, invasiones e incautaciones -las que se han podido recoger-, 46. Huelgas generales, 79. Huelgas parciales, 92. Clausuras ilegales, 7. Bombas halladas y explotadas, 47.
      Haz la cuenta. Salen unos 300 muertos en 4 meses.
      En la misma acta, se relatan cosas como que se estaban produciendo "detenciones de los coches y automóviles que circulan por las carreteras, para exigirles el pago de una contribución para el Socorro Rojo Internacional".. Hasta tal punto de que el Automóvil Club de Inglaterra, dictó una circular diciendo que no se garantizaba a ningún coche que entrara en el territorio español.
      Y me pregunto yo ¿quienes eran esos que quemaban iglesias? ¿o los que extorsionaban a la gente en nombre del Socorro Rojo? Pues gente como 'presuntamente', el familiar de Sheen. Si les preguntáramos a ellos mientras asaltaban una iglesia dirían que estaban 'luchando contra el fascismo'. Obvio.

    • @eq1373
      @eq1373 Год назад

      ​@@arturojimenez7087 maybe this fight is going to start again

  • @guatopo1985
    @guatopo1985 Год назад +3

    Obviously he was wrong...he just helped comunists...

  • @mmbell
    @mmbell Год назад +5

    He can be so proud of his uncle for being part of the Segunda Republica🖤

    • @leatherandtactel
      @leatherandtactel Год назад

      La Segunda República fue la primera dictadura. Mira lo que hicieron en Casas Viejas y Yeste y en tantos otros sitios. Matanzas indiscriminadas de campesinos que querían recuperar las tierras comunales robadas en el siglo XIX y que la república reprimió a sangre y fuego. De eso nadie habla, ni siquiera los de derechas.

    • @jaimegarcia9408
      @jaimegarcia9408 Год назад

      La segunda República no es motivo de ningún orgullo, fue un auténtico desastre y culpable del caldo de odio y ambiente guerra civilista.

  • @BeatlesTranscriber
    @BeatlesTranscriber Год назад +3

    All the Sheens speak Spanish just in case you all ignorant people thought they were « American »

    • @Xiroi87
      @Xiroi87 Год назад +3

      Not all of them and not fluently, Martin himself needs an interpreter when interviewed in Spain.

    • @the_ag_101
      @the_ag_101 Год назад

      The fact that you seem to think that them speaking Spanish somehow makes it impossible for them to be American speaks only of your ignorance, nobody else's.

  • @frank5891
    @frank5891 Год назад +4

    We never got fascism in Spain.

    • @xalau5270
      @xalau5270 Год назад +3

      Yes we did. That´s why Hitler´s airforce bombed Gernika and the italians fought in Spain.

  • @lassekarlsson5385
    @lassekarlsson5385 Год назад +4

    he could be a great president

    • @jamesthefirst8790
      @jamesthefirst8790 Год назад

      I thought Martin was the President for 8 years in the nineties... wasn't he?

  • @tanyazhukova7186
    @tanyazhukova7186 Год назад +4

    Nope, he actually fought for the establishment of Communism in Spain, and fortunately, he lost.

  • @tonnygomez2511
    @tonnygomez2511 Год назад +6

    So Sheen's uncle fought in favor of Communists, supported by Stalin, in the Spanish Civil War.??? Shame on him.

    • @davidmallon8300
      @davidmallon8300 Год назад

      The Communists were on the side of Democracy just like the thousands of international volunteers who were Communist, Socialist or Anarchist. There were also many kinds of Communists from the PCE (Stalinists), POUM (Centrist Marxist) and there were Trotskyists and Leninists. The PCE massacred the POUM. The Fascists had Nazi's from across Europe fighting for them!

  • @pepidiazgonzalez591
    @pepidiazgonzalez591 Год назад

    Español porfavor

  • @Mrleesors
    @Mrleesors Год назад +1

    Oh, yeah... What kind of fascism? Italian fascism, liberal fascism, or socialist fascism?

  • @SarahBright
    @SarahBright Год назад

    El rato? O el raton?

    • @deifnalo
      @deifnalo 9 месяцев назад +1

      Aunque la palabra correcta sería "el ratón", existe otra especie de roedor que son "las ratas", y aunque lo correcto para referirse a una rata macho sería decir justamente eso "una rata macho", también podría ser que (al ser un simple "alias") se refieran a "el rato" como el masculino de "rata", en forma de jerga. Yo también creo que puede ser un error, pero además de que puede ser "lenguaje informal, jerga", también podría pasar que se use la forma "el rato" en alguno de los diferentes idiomas del norte de españa (asturiano, leonés, o gallego en este caso). En españa no solo se habla castellano (cuyo nombre internalcional es: Español). Igualmente, no tengo idea de si se dice "el rato" de una forma informal (mi primera teoría) o por alguna razón idiomática (mi segunda teoría), pero sí tienes razón en que "el rato" no es de uso común y podría ser una equivocación. O también podría ser correcto proque realmente se hizo llamar así, aunque no sea un buen uso de la lengua española estándar.

    • @SarahBright
      @SarahBright 9 месяцев назад

      @@deifnalo interesante teoria

  • @mcmc1103
    @mcmc1103 Год назад

    MS milked the fairness of his skin to become an actor.

    • @michelles2299
      @michelles2299 28 дней назад

      What a ridiculous statement and totally irrelevant

  • @hildamaine8319
    @hildamaine8319 Год назад

    Martin Sheen. 😊❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😊

  • @davidbrown5411
    @davidbrown5411 Год назад +4

    So he fought on the losing side then?

  • @enriquesaez1996
    @enriquesaez1996 Год назад +3

    They were not fascists, they were falangistas. Very biased documentary

    • @GLopezMad
      @GLopezMad Год назад

      Exactly! Absurd how badly informed is the script..

  • @hughsmith7668
    @hughsmith7668 Год назад +28

    Let's not forget that the Communist committed horrific atrocities in Spain... It's a good thing they lost.

    • @Dopaminapalospollos
      @Dopaminapalospollos Год назад +10

      I'm spanish. Agree with you. Deeply respect for Ramón and his family. The war was a national tragedy but the II republic was a complete liberticide because URSS wanted to create in Spain a comunist pole in western Europe.
      The republic was destroyed by the left parties not by the right wing.

    • @ferkara8223
      @ferkara8223 Год назад +2

      You are right!!!

    • @Kwijiboz
      @Kwijiboz Год назад +7

      Who started the war with a failed coup that enabled those atrocities (on both sides, but specially on the nationalist side) to happen? who established a 40 year dictatorship? exactly my dear fascists...

    • @Dopaminapalospollos
      @Dopaminapalospollos Год назад +4

      @@Kwijiboz The alzamiento was a reaction to the atrocities of the II República.
      Talking about dictatorship... Do you think you are free now? Do you think citizens really have any power? Everything is a theatre, an illusion of freedom.

    • @Kwijiboz
      @Kwijiboz Год назад +7

      @@Dopaminapalospollos What atrocities?? and are you seriously telling me the country's situation now is equal or even worse than it was under the dictatorship? Of course modern democracy has many flaws, but come on, just tell us that you like fascist regimes, we will end this conversation sooner.

  • @Medes06
    @Medes06 Год назад +3

    Against fascism? This is rubbish.
    You are making a story that it is not true.

  • @xute89
    @xute89 Год назад +4

    Viva la República!!

  • @RafaelLopez-le6sq
    @RafaelLopez-le6sq Год назад +3

    His uncle fought with the comunists, no against fascism.

  • @CT-7567R3X
    @CT-7567R3X 9 месяцев назад

    There never was fascism in Spain

  • @isabelrodriguez6717
    @isabelrodriguez6717 Год назад

    Reportaje inglés? De la misa, la media

  • @juanribas6789
    @juanribas6789 Год назад +1

    I am sorry but is not only Galician too Spaniard, my name is Julio and i am from Barcelona Spain, but i am think to american people are the best on the world . I am sorry for my english .

  • @amafirenze-vi1uh
    @amafirenze-vi1uh Год назад +1

    ..and he lost!

  • @SharpTac
    @SharpTac Год назад +7

    And he's a socialist 😂

    • @jillybe1873
      @jillybe1873 Год назад +11

      Outside of U S America socialist is a huge compliment

    • @SharpTac
      @SharpTac Год назад +4

      @@jillybe1873 maybe to socialists, not to freedom loving sane people

    • @hartubmoses6645
      @hartubmoses6645 Год назад

      @@SharpTac Like the Maga's traitor's who tried to overthrow the United States Government, those sane freedom loving people?

    • @EMVelez
      @EMVelez Год назад +17

      Americans have no idea what socialism actually means. Yet they are terrified of it.

    • @stevenconnor4221
      @stevenconnor4221 Год назад

      ​@@EMVelez 💯%. It's due to the indoctrination of the American culture and the shear size of the country. They keep spouting Freedom, yet do not realise that they are corporately governed and have been since corporations were given legale status as individuals.

  • @juliancate7089
    @juliancate7089 Год назад +2

    WDYTYA: The show that only does genealogies on people whose ancestors were either enslaved or were victims of the Nazis, because they need to push...THE MESSAGE.

    • @eq1373
      @eq1373 Год назад

      Critical Drinker reference 😂

    • @juliancate7089
      @juliancate7089 Год назад

      @@eq1373 Yep, Critical Drinker and Paul Joseph Watson, but there are others also. Not sure who's the first to coin it.

    • @Xiroi87
      @Xiroi87 Год назад

      No one in their right mind would be happy to know their ancestors were slave traders or nazis, let alone share it with the world, as simple as that. You can safely remove your tin foil hat now.

  • @andyayala9119
    @andyayala9119 Год назад

    Libs say fascism started with Trump and it has to do with racism.

  • @patricialear8001
    @patricialear8001 Год назад +3

    I didn't watch this but found it funny that Martin told the electors to not vote as the people wanted with trump...a fascious. Ironic.

    • @hartubmoses6645
      @hartubmoses6645 Год назад +8

      What? The people voted for Clinton, the electors voted for Trump! Martin Sheen pleaded with the electors not to vote for Trump, to allow the people ( the popular vote), wishes to stand.

    • @EMVelez
      @EMVelez Год назад

      You mean fascist 🙄. Another Trump supporter who cannot spell.

    • @patricialear8001
      @patricialear8001 Год назад +2

      @@hartubmoses6645 no we live in a republic. First of all. Second if the people want hand counting why is it being fought so hard? You need to look for a bit deeper. But you won't.

    • @hartubmoses6645
      @hartubmoses6645 Год назад +5

      @@patricialear8001 First of all, we live in a democratic republic. Second, What are you talking about? Who's talking about hand counting and what did it have to do with the electors electing Trump?

    • @johhny711
      @johhny711 Год назад

      @@patricialear8001 See Fox news $800,000,000 settlement with Dominion for lying to the Ameircan public on behalf of the Tump gang.

  • @ramonmunoz7113
    @ramonmunoz7113 Год назад

    Subtítulos en español please

  • @ikurrinegartzia5487
    @ikurrinegartzia5487 Год назад +4

    That is not the true story.

  • @rebel7234
    @rebel7234 Год назад

    Viva la República.