Posted on 12/27/2020 10:03:01 AM PST by HogsBreath
Every November 6, the Roman Catholic Church in Spain commemorates the saints martyred by the Communists during the Spanish Civil War. During the Red Terror of the 1930s, Communists killed more than 6,800 bishops, priests, monks, and religious. Yet outside Spain, their story is largely forgotten.
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'a coalition of left-wing parties including the Socialist Party, Esquerra Republicana, and the Communist Party – took power in 1936, through election fraud according to historians Álvarez Tardío and Villa García. That heralded an era of lawlessness. Leftist forces organized illegal demonstrations intended to foment revolutionary discontent. All respect for private property was abandoned. “Police delegates” – who had previously served as socialist activists – led the arbitrary arrest of many right-wing politicians, the forcible dissolution of rightist and monarchist groups, and an escalation of political violence during these months.'
This sounds like something democrats would celebrate.
I just read Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia. Couldn’t tell who the bad guys were.
Similar happened in Mexico 1917 when the socialists revolted and overthrew the government.
The Loyalists won. One could certainly make an argument that forty years of Franco cost Spain dearly as far as moving into and through the twentieth century.
The movie industry and Hemingway obscured and hid the communist activity on the Republic side and made the commies into heroes. Franco was no saint, but he was the type of mean bastard they needed to save them from a lot worse.
Maybe so, but I’m not sure being under the yoke of the Soviet Union until it’s collapse would’ve been much better?
Here in the USA the Lincoln Bde. was looking for a retirement check and veteran benefits? With Biden and Harris they may get it. ?? Sure they were patriotic Americans, only with a little leftist lean. They fought for the Republican side. It was a good war for the Germans and Russians, they got to practice tactics and test weapons for WW II.
I can think of three movies with different “heros”.
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Socialists the good guys.
The Angel wore Red. Socialists the bad guys.
Pan’s Labyrinth, Socialists the good guys.
You mean “Missing”? I think “The Mission” was set back in the conquistador era.
Yet all you ever see is that retarded Guernica ‘painting’ by Picasshole.
The Soviets also got to scam their Republican “allies” out of the Spanish gold bullion supply, as well as use the OGPU/NKVD to eliminate Republican factions that were Trotskyite or otherwise unacceptable to Stalin.
Right
The Communist Inquisition, forgotten to all except students of George Orwell.
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston did an exhibition on the art of the Revolution in Mexico. Never once mentioning Communist even though the iconography was there.
Wasn’t call far left either.
“Similar happened in Mexico 1917 when the socialists revolted and overthrew the government.”
A good movie about that is “For Greater Glory: The True Story of Cristiada,” 2012. One of Peter O’Toole’s last movies.
Sometimes there are no good guys.
Partisan and not really accurate. The Spanish republican government was originally controlled by radical socialists and anarchists who started killing priests before the civil war began. The republic was only supported by the Soviet Union and Mexico, while Germany, Italy, and Portugal aided the Nationalists. The republic got weapons from the Soviet Union in exchange for the entire Spanish gold reserve, then still the 3rd largest in value in the world, mostly old coins from Spanish American gold. The Communist wound up in control of the Republic. Both sides executed hundreds of thousands. The Communists executed anarchists etc. on the their own side as well as nationalists. Franco ruled Spain for about 30 years there after. The Nationalists were considered Fascists by many, but were more reactionary, against Socialist and for the Catholic Church.
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