And the amount of Soviet-supplied armaments shipped to the "Republicans" was impressive, not to mention all the communist troops dispatched to fight in Spain.
Even worse, while German pilots in the Condor Legion were definitely supplied to Franco (along with their planes), I have not read a single account of German ground troops in Spain. Not one; this appears to be a pure fabrication. Even the revisionist History Channel has never claimed this; it mentions Italian ground troops, but never German ones.