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Paradox games are like total war games. They'll give you mostly accurate history, but the game play will blow it so out of proportion that you'd think the boshin war was actually a major Japanese war with hundreds of thousands dead on either side
14:00 Franco knew that the French wouldnt attack in fact, because french diplomats had told him. The reason is the same that why he didnt take Valencia in 1937 when he could or headed towards Toledo instead of Madrid in 1936: he knew he was going to win, but he wanted to inflict as many casualities as possible to the Republicans and test the loyalty of his generals for after the war
He also wanted to consolidate power inside the military junta. Originally, he was declared leader "as long as the war lasts". This meant that it was against his own interests to win before he knew he would be able to keep the power after.
Really though? I know very little on the Spanish Civil War but won't any diplomat tell the country they're in that they are most definitely not going to invade them?
@@KaiHung-wv3ul i mean you just had to look at France at that time, and they were not ready to go to war anyways, and Franco knew. It was politically divided and its army and industry destroyed by the left wing parties directly obeying to Stalin. And often if you're going to invade someone, you threaten him first, in order to get what you want without fighting.
Carlist pretender to the Spanish throne, Prince Xavier, ended up fighting the Nazis in the Belgian army and French Resistance. He was imprisoned at at Dachau concentration camp and condemned to death by starvation until being liberated by US troops.
@@Aquelequedesconhece I think he said he survived the concentration camp because the Catholic Jesuit school he was in as a child was tougher and more austere, pretty sure he was joking but still.
@@Fordo007 Yeah, thats total BS, the Jesuits were Allied with the Nazis and made sure their guys had enough to eat even if they were officially starving.
I loved your interpretation. In Spain, we are mostly told that the main reason the republic lost was a lack of international support, being Germany's and Italy's help much higher than that of the USSR.
That was the exact issue. The fascists had modern fighter and bomber support from Germany, and the Republicans had the garbage that they managed to scrap together during a Civil War.
@@Inoffensive_name I think this series made it abundantly clear that that was not the exact issue. Between the infighting and Stalinist infiltration, as well as overall bad leadership and terrible strategic decision making. Their few advantages were numbers and PR, the latter of which they squandered. They arguably didn't even have a moral advantage given the child soldiers the Republicans used, though that advantage largely depends on whether you think that is better or worse than leaning towards Nazi Germany.
This is prob my fav CallMeEzekiel series ever, the Spanish Civil War is so underexplored but is deeply interesting, also interesting to learn that the German tactics used during the war was developed here in Spain
@@DogeickBateman True that, I, being Spanish, tried VERY HARD, to find some non political biased book about the civil war, let me tell you, is fuking hard, the less political biased books i have are Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" and Peter Kemp's recolection whose name i can't remember.
@@Defsould I read one of those Oxford Brief Introduction books written by some British academic lady and I realized halfway she wasn’t just a Republican, she was a communist. Why
@@Defsould Like Orwell once said, the most rational opinions are at the front, the least rational are those who know it all yet are away. Or something like that
The history of the leftists is pretty interesting, too. Two of the leading figures in the communist Red Guard: Otto Wille Kuusinen and Edvard Gylling were ardent nationalists early on who took inspiration from Kalevala, the Finnish national epic. While Kuusinen later became an internationalist, but Gylling still wanted to make a communist Greater Finland during the Civil War. After the Reds lost, Kuusinen became a yes-man for Kremlin and was pretty much responsible for most of the Finnish communist leadership getting executed for "nationalist chauvinism", including Gylling.
If I had a nickel for every time the anarchists were betrayed by the Soviets, I would have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot, but's weird that it happened twice, right?
We need a fps game focused on the more forgotten wars and campains of 30s. Spanish Civil War, Italo-Ethiopian War, September Campaing, you get the idea.
there are some games about Spain but they're pretty old. I forget their names but I believe one might've been an old call of duty game, another kinda played like Arma, it might've been a mod, there was also a top down strategy one based on small house to house fighting where you move troops into and out of cover like crates and houses but it received controversy in spain because "It reminded people of the horrors of the war which they still have not gotten over" essentially.
@@delano4526the call of duty one is actually a mod, not a standalone game, but it's pretty good, at least it's not that demanding of cpu, compared to the back2fronts one
My great-grandfather's brother was a civil guard (policeman) stationed in the south of the country, specifically in Estepona. He was arrested several weeks after the beginning of the war, and before the nationals arrived in Malaga, the republicans shot him and several of his comrades. The reason? He was a Catholic and a conservative civil guard. His body was not found, it is supposed that the militiamen threw his corpse into the sea. In Spain people never get tired of talking about the crimes committed by the Nationalists, but they do not talk about those committed by the Republicans.
Reminder that the right didn't start fighting back in earnest until the communists murdered their political opposition, burned churches, raped nuns, and stole property. Those Godless heathens got what was coming to them and then some.
Stop the victimism, the dictatorship had decades to find the bodies and they couldn't care less about your great grandfather or any other of the "españoles de bien" they were pawns and they were treated as such by their own side. Now the heirs of the dictatorship laugh at their own victims when they try to find the bodies of their ancestors
@@JamesFTW1 It is ironic that you speak of victimhood when the left is the first to bring up the subject of the civil war and complain about having lost the war. Not to mention that more than 85 years have passed. But when we talk about the terrorism of ETA or the extreme left in Spain, which was killing until 2011, they say that the only thing we do is to politicize and say "ETA no longer exists". Franco is not there either and that does not stop you from talking about him all the time. And that you talk about pawns.... When during the war the left was dedicated from the beginning to kill each other in 1936, or when the republican government mobilized children from 14 to 17 years old, the so-called "quinta del biberon", or that they did not mind at all to sell part of Spain to foreign powers. And nobody laughs at those who are looking for their dead relatives. What happens is that they only remember the dead of the republicans, and when you mention the dead of the nationalists, they respond by saying that they were coup perpetrators and that they deserved to die.
I'm surprised the anarchists didn't fall down sooner given how they refused to adopt military ranks within its troops. It was basically a horde without any organization.
There was some degree of leadership, at some level they did "elect" officers who could be replaced again by another vote it was convoluted and didn't really create a stable corps of officers who knew what the hell they were doing but they did have some hierarchy
@@KalashVodka175 This is why history is so important to learn. If the Anarchists read why the French Republicans and Soviets quickly abandoned electing officers, they would have at least had some sort of proper organization.
@@imgvillasrc1608I mean there is some examples where it worked, such as the mongols, though I’m guessing there weee some aspects that made it work. when they voted for someone it was usually someone who did know what they were doing, replacing an incompetent commander. I won’t defend this practice but it’s probably the reason they would vote
@@Defsould Franco was very kick in gaining their support, that when the republicans call them in descolonization talks, they were not even there because they were supporting Franco in the Peninsula
@@robertortiz-wilson1588indigenous Moroccans. These specifically were race traitors who had put down liberation movements in Morocco against their Spanish occupiers. There were plans on the Republican side to try to influence these to go back to Morocco and care for their families instead of dying in a war for their colonisers.
when i read Homage to Catalonia there was a part where there officers and regular soldiers treated each other as equals and the officers had to convince the soldiers to fight that the moment i realized republican spain lost 🏴
Awesome video about the Spanish civil war in History Class, I only learn that the reason the republics lost the war was because they were less organized and armed I didn't know the committed too many strategic mistakes and had a lot of infighting.
1:40 Bilbao is not the Basque capital, Vitoria-Gasteiz is, we can say Bilbao was more of a industrial capital. It is a common misconception even for Basque people tho.
like last time, I'm here to annoy: - "Un cimetière sous la lune" by Bernanos, a French action militant (not really left-wing) who denounced the nationalist crimes committed with the support of the Church, also did much to damage the international image of the nationalists. -From the revolution onwards, the CNT was no longer a united bloc (and hardly had been before), divided between possibilists, trentistes and radical anarchists (yes, even for anarchists). If anyone's interested, I could elaborate. -The weakness of the Republican militias", yes, but meanwhile, who made the only Republican advance of the war? La collone durruti (signed: the anarchist band) -I'd like to see the sources, for the Brigadists' change of sides as most of them were blind and radical Stalinists. -I think that Catalonia, an anarchist stronghold, fell so easily because the battle had already been fought in 1938 against the republic, and Catalonia had already been defeated. -Funny story: the military junta that overthrew the republic was supported by the central CNT (but not by the CNT in general). -Technically, the civil war continued in the 60s with the maquis, and fascist propaganda ensured that it continued in people's minds until the end of Francoism. -morality, fuck the communists.
@@pannik_lucas he possibilistes libertaires (who won the majority of votes at the 1936 congress and whose leader is the general secretary of the CNT) are anarchists who essentially want to take control of the state with the help of a party or a trade union (basically, they're Marxists who don't take on too much, but I'm biased here). Anarchist ministers don't come out of nowhere. Treintism, its life of the "Manifesto of the Thirty", in 1936, they merged more and more with the possibilists and the main difference is that they had split in the 20s/early 30s to make a libertarian party. And the radical anarchists are mainly the Durruti Column, the Friends of Durruti (there's a lot of Durruti for people who are supposed to burn idols, isn't there?), the Iron Column and the Libertarian Youth. These are the groups that stay true to doctrine and refuse to deal with the state/bourgeoisie. They were the ones who took up arms during the May Days of 1937. That said, even in the radical branch, one criticism is that they have tended to want to form defense councils, and that these are merely states in disguise. That said, the CNT's divisions are not the part of the social revolution I understand best. If you're interested, read CNT et le pouvoir (by César M.Lorenzo, more of a possibilist) and CNT dans la révolutions de 1936 et lutte de toujours (by José Peirat, more of a radical).
This certainly is the best art for a video so far. The fact that both comedic and serious moments are in it is great. Other videos like those about the russian civil war had it too, but the serious scenes were rarer. Great work.
I love your videos man! They are always so in depth and interesting, and on niche topics that for some reason draw me in and won’t let go! Personally I think it would be amazing if you could go into the Baltic War of Liberation, as I don’t hear to much about it. It’d also be cool to know why they didn’t band together afterwards to stop further Soviet or German encroachment. Anyway, keep up the great videos!
To be fair about the Guernica bit, I heard that the day was very foggy and that people weren't fully aware yet of the damage that modern bombers could inflict. Don't take my word for it though
"Alright, all we have to do to win the war is push into this easily invadable poorly defended region, crush the south, and push north to win the war, what do you think, Spain?" Soviets: no
Who could have predicted it that within a movement most hardline, statist, brutal and uncompromising option will amass all the power... Anarchists and center-left taking L's as always XD
@KaiHung-wv3ul They all got L's eventually, lol. The Bolsheviks eventually got moderated when Stalin died (long-term W for Mensheviks), the French Republic became the French Empire when the republic was too weak to govern itself and Napoleon cleaned up the mess that the Republic made, and the PRC no longer follows the Maoist vision when Deng Xiaping took control.
tbh, there is a reason extremadura is called extremadura, which roughly translates to "extremely hard", the terrain there would be an absolute nightmare since even as of today it has terrible infrastructure.
This isnt really unbiased and its no surprise you as an anarchist support the fascist propaganda rather than the communists because you hate real communists because you are just another fascist apologist liberal scum
The objective of the Ebre offensive was, according to Rojo(the mastermind behind it), to stop the attack on Valencia, and prolong the war until WW2 started, and France could help.
7:39. I concur on this point, I think it would be Falangist on the surface, but ideologically Carlist (disregarding individual Falangists), as seen with the post war policies of Franco.
I am Spanish and I have to say that it is a very good series of videos, I am glad that the nationalists won but I am not afraid to say that Franco wasn´t our best leader, but is undeniable to say that we wpuld be much worse off if the communists or anarchists won.
@@silverhawkscape2677 yeah, i feel like people always say, 'oh how terrible, the world let fascism continue into the 70's' but they would hate the other side more, because they wouldn't be going to Barcelona for their holidays. Imagine Barcelona like a hot Moscow.
I highly doubt the Soviets would have been able to hold lots of power over Spain. Stalin couldn't even hold Yugoslavia within his grip and he had multiple puppet governments surrounding him. I highly doubt he would be able to hold a country on the opposite side of Europe, surrounded by Capitalist powers, in his grip. If the Republicans survived after WW2 they likely would have adopted neutrality as its stance, Spain likely would have a similar foreign policy to Yugoslavia. In addition any style of socialism implemented would be much different than implemented in the USSR, due to the influence of the anarchists it is likely Spain would have a bottom-up power system instead of top-down like in the USSR, which replaced rich elites with bureaucratic elites.
@@pavan923lol...of course, every defeated communist movement would surely have built a fair and equal utopia.... funny how that's never happened in reality.
Gulags but with a Spanish name that sounds less industrial, a few million dead in a famine created by the glorious socialist state in the name of progress and the greater good, eventually mass alcoholism, stagnation and despair...*edit* and ugly grey architecture.
To be honest i was thinking about attacking that bulge in the centre that peer-ren-eese panhandle and evacuating the north to consolidate what we had, shorten the front and whittle away at the franco's forces. Sorry i am an amateur eithout all the facts but at least i didnt want photo ops
very good video! how about doing korea's history of 1945 to korean war? that time was very much like spain's. political violence in the streets, and purging between left and right happend a lot. especially in the korean war because the frontline changed too fast and too much, which meant that both side can do atrocities unlike spain civil war
Your videos stopped showing up in my feed for sometime and now I'm binging the backlog and the quality of videos has skyrocketed, even the soundtrack. How did you do it dude?
If I could suggest a philosophy for you to explain; The Tolstoyan Movement: Pacifist-Anarchism, Christian-Anarchism, Christian-Socialism, Vegetarianism.
9:50 ish. I had the instinct of thinking that attacking Extremadura to split the Fascist forces when looking at the map. But Portugal was backing them. So they could probably move through their territory. So maybe not as effective as all that.
Right? Everyone ou here talking about Estremadura being ideal to split up the Nationalists seems to forget the fact that there would always be supply routes through the west via Portugal. Now, to be fair, Salazar was very cautious in his support, and so the Nationalists certainly wouldn't have that much power in this, but it'd probably be enough to still supply Seville and such. Estremadura itself also didn't have that much value. Like, it wasn't very populated nor industrialised, and it wasn't even that productive as an agricultural base. Really, the only major benefit of taking it would be the strategic values of the region, and that could only be applied fully if you could perhaps move down the border and cutting of all major roads. The Republicans did control the navy, so I doubt the Nationalists would get that much support by sea. In all fairness, Estremadura was a very good place to make an offensive, but it wasn't the only one, and perhaps some other places, if well organised (which wouldn't happen because Republicans, but still) would probably be even better.
@@12D_D21 They definitely couold've gotten supplies through, but I doubt Salazar would've let them bring troops over, so it's still a good idea, better than attacking Madrid anyway.
@@KaiHung-wv3ulyea Salazar in no way would allow troop movements or heavy supplies just for the sole reason that he wouldn't want a bunch of armed militia men roaming the Portuguese countryside
8:30 Hm.... As a Hearts of Iron Player I would cut Extremadura off, finish the south, and hold the north until I plan an offensive to drive them away from Madrid and beyond.
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After finishing this series, could you try doing a series on other South American dictatorships during the Cold War??
Could you cover Peter Kemp’s other two books?
Why do all your background tracks slap
You’ve fallen to the dark side
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“I’m sorry HoI 4 lied to you”
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Probably my favorite quote lol
Years of academy training wasted
There goes my history degree
Hoi4 tends to lie
"7TP: great war light tank chassis"
"Nationalist Spain (fascist)"
Are mere examples.
Paradox games are like total war games. They'll give you mostly accurate history, but the game play will blow it so out of proportion that you'd think the boshin war was actually a major Japanese war with hundreds of thousands dead on either side
Nooooooooooo
14:00 Franco knew that the French wouldnt attack in fact, because french diplomats had told him. The reason is the same that why he didnt take Valencia in 1937 when he could or headed towards Toledo instead of Madrid in 1936: he knew he was going to win, but he wanted to inflict as many casualities as possible to the Republicans and test the loyalty of his generals for after the war
He also wanted to consolidate power inside the military junta. Originally, he was declared leader "as long as the war lasts". This meant that it was against his own interests to win before he knew he would be able to keep the power after.
He wanted to kill every socialist, catalan, or basque
Communist propaganda.
Really though? I know very little on the Spanish Civil War but won't any diplomat tell the country they're in that they are most definitely not going to invade them?
@@KaiHung-wv3ul i mean you just had to look at France at that time, and they were not ready to go to war anyways, and Franco knew. It was politically divided and its army and industry destroyed by the left wing parties directly obeying to Stalin. And often if you're going to invade someone, you threaten him first, in order to get what you want without fighting.
"That would involve the communists admitting they had made a mistake, and they never do that"
I love that quote
Carlist pretender to the Spanish throne, Prince Xavier, ended up fighting the Nazis in the Belgian army and French Resistance. He was imprisoned at at Dachau concentration camp and condemned to death by starvation until being liberated by US troops.
Based xavier
@@Aquelequedesconhece I think he said he survived the concentration camp because the Catholic Jesuit school he was in as a child was tougher and more austere, pretty sure he was joking but still.
Source?
@@tenanaciouz Trust me bro
@@Fordo007 Yeah, thats total BS, the Jesuits were Allied with the Nazis and made sure their guys had enough to eat even if they were officially starving.
_hate government
_become anarchist
_ally with moscow
_fight war
_die
The short life of anarchist societies 😔🏴
Sigma Anarchist Grindset.
Mother anarchy loves her sons... right up until they make deals with tankies
You just dont get the lifestyle of a true hustler
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@@nuttmc4803 damn guess I don't
"Hearts of Iron IV lied to you,"
ah yes, the floor is made of floor
sometimes historical does some funky things
Nope, moscow infiltrated your floor and now is all коммунистическая почва
Another way hoi4 lies to you: makes AI Germany invade Benelux and France before Denmark and Norway
@@The_whales indeed
I swear some Republicans leaders after all this were probably like "How god damn hard is it going to be for us to take Extremadura?!"
Extremadura is like the Resident Evil 4 village so probably very hard
It's so beautiful to watch commie filth destroy themselves.
@@The_Soviet_Onion real
@@The_Soviet_Onion I honestly might not blame them... I wouldn't even force the Alcazar Puzzles on even my worst enemies :'(
@@The_Soviet_Onion Except with 90% less latinoamericans xD
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I loved your interpretation. In Spain, we are mostly told that the main reason the republic lost was a lack of international support, being Germany's and Italy's help much higher than that of the USSR.
Ikr
The reason the republic lost was because nationalism is a superior ideology, communists are evil filth, and anarchists are utterly useless.
We'll it's not completely wrong
That was the exact issue. The fascists had modern fighter and bomber support from Germany, and the Republicans had the garbage that they managed to scrap together during a Civil War.
@@Inoffensive_name I think this series made it abundantly clear that that was not the exact issue. Between the infighting and Stalinist infiltration, as well as overall bad leadership and terrible strategic decision making. Their few advantages were numbers and PR, the latter of which they squandered. They arguably didn't even have a moral advantage given the child soldiers the Republicans used, though that advantage largely depends on whether you think that is better or worse than leaning towards Nazi Germany.
Stalin: The Anarchists 🏴are objectively fascists.
Also, Stalin: (makes a deal with a fascist to divide Eastern Europe).
Commie rats call everyone fascists. And have no standards.
Tankies keep tanking
smartest communist
You gotta do what you gotta do😏
Stalin would purge tankies as well.
This is prob my fav CallMeEzekiel series ever, the Spanish Civil War is so underexplored but is deeply interesting, also interesting to learn that the German tactics used during the war was developed here in Spain
Most of the books covering it as well tends to be *insanely* biased, so Ezekiel's video is a rare breath of fresh air
@@DogeickBateman True that, I, being Spanish, tried VERY HARD, to find some non political biased book about the civil war, let me tell you, is fuking hard, the less political biased books i have are Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" and Peter Kemp's recolection whose name i can't remember.
@@Defsould I read one of those Oxford Brief Introduction books written by some British academic lady and I realized halfway she wasn’t just a Republican, she was a communist.
Why
@@Defsould Like Orwell once said, the most rational opinions are at the front, the least rational are those who know it all yet are away.
Or something like that
@@Defsould, "Mine Were of Trouble" is the book you're referring to, I believe.
Next time Finnish civil war it is pretty interesting and neighbors shot each other bc it was communism vs every other ideology that is not leftist.
Leftist infighting is always glorious
Sounds a lot like the Russian Civil War had the whites beaten the reds.
Yeah that would be really interesting, it was very short though.
The history of the leftists is pretty interesting, too. Two of the leading figures in the communist Red Guard: Otto Wille Kuusinen and Edvard Gylling were ardent nationalists early on who took inspiration from Kalevala, the Finnish national epic. While Kuusinen later became an internationalist, but Gylling still wanted to make a communist Greater Finland during the Civil War. After the Reds lost, Kuusinen became a yes-man for Kremlin and was pretty much responsible for most of the Finnish communist leadership getting executed for "nationalist chauvinism", including Gylling.
I want a video on this, I'm currently reading a book about it and its pretty interesting.😊
If I had a nickel for every time the anarchists were betrayed by the Soviets, I would have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot, but's weird that it happened twice, right?
Honestly, its weird that it didn't happen more
@@therealgeneralMacArthur literaly this
fuck soviet communists, all my homies hate soviet communists
Makhnovia?
How did the Soviets betray the anarchists?
I find it hilarious that there’s a continuous joke of _____? Not in MY _____!
Communism: “Food? Not in my country!”
We need a fps game focused on the more forgotten wars and campains of 30s.
Spanish Civil War, Italo-Ethiopian War, September Campaing, you get the idea.
I agree
there are some games about Spain but they're pretty old. I forget their names but I believe one might've been an old call of duty game, another kinda played like Arma, it might've been a mod, there was also a top down strategy one based on small house to house fighting where you move troops into and out of cover like crates and houses but it received controversy in spain because "It reminded people of the horrors of the war which they still have not gotten over" essentially.
@@delano4526the call of duty one is actually a mod, not a standalone game, but it's pretty good, at least it's not that demanding of cpu, compared to the back2fronts one
My great-grandfather's brother was a civil guard (policeman) stationed in the south of the country, specifically in Estepona. He was arrested several weeks after the beginning of the war, and before the nationals arrived in Malaga, the republicans shot him and several of his comrades. The reason?
He was a Catholic and a conservative civil guard. His body was not found, it is supposed that the militiamen threw his corpse into the sea.
In Spain people never get tired of talking about the crimes committed by the Nationalists, but they do not talk about those committed by the Republicans.
That's because historical revisionism is a key tactic by leftists.
Reminder that the right didn't start fighting back in earnest until the communists murdered their political opposition, burned churches, raped nuns, and stole property. Those Godless heathens got what was coming to them and then some.
Stop the victimism, the dictatorship had decades to find the bodies and they couldn't care less about your great grandfather or any other of the "españoles de bien" they were pawns and they were treated as such by their own side. Now the heirs of the dictatorship laugh at their own victims when they try to find the bodies of their ancestors
@@JamesFTW1 It is ironic that you speak of victimhood when the left is the first to bring up the subject of the civil war and complain about having lost the war. Not to mention that more than 85 years have passed. But when we talk about the terrorism of ETA or the extreme left in Spain, which was killing until 2011, they say that the only thing we do is to politicize and say "ETA no longer exists". Franco is not there either and that does not stop you from talking about him all the time. And that you talk about pawns....
When during the war the left was dedicated from the beginning to kill each other in 1936, or when the republican government mobilized children from 14 to 17 years old, the so-called "quinta del biberon", or that they did not mind at all to sell part of Spain to foreign powers.
And nobody laughs at those who are looking for their dead relatives. What happens is that they only remember the dead of the republicans, and when you mention the dead of the nationalists, they respond by saying that they were coup perpetrators and that they deserved to die.
The left always had good cancel culture
I'm surprised the anarchists didn't fall down sooner given how they refused to adopt military ranks within its troops. It was basically a horde without any organization.
There was some degree of leadership, at some level they did "elect" officers who could be replaced again by another vote
it was convoluted and didn't really create a stable corps of officers who knew what the hell they were doing but they did have some hierarchy
@@KalashVodka175 yeah, voting in military is stupid the same way voting for the most popular passenger of a plane to be the pilot.
@@KalashVodka175 This is why history is so important to learn. If the Anarchists read why the French Republicans and Soviets quickly abandoned electing officers, they would have at least had some sort of proper organization.
@@imgvillasrc1608
Fair point but it would go against their objective of having no « unjust hierarchy »
Like a dog eating its own tail
@@imgvillasrc1608I mean there is some examples where it worked, such as the mongols, though I’m guessing there weee some aspects that made it work. when they voted for someone it was usually someone who did know what they were doing, replacing an incompetent commander.
I won’t defend this practice but it’s probably the reason they would vote
You should make a vid about the Greek Civil war
Do all the communist civil wars.
Russia, Spain, Finland, China, etc.
So journalists being journalists same now as then😂
The only thing I miss in this serie was that we dont see more of the Rifian support of the nationalist, the were a big help to this faction
Who is that?
@@robertortiz-wilson1588 North-african tribes, Franco was very respected and admired by these men, they even thought he had "Baraka".
@Eyrik Valkland ah, thank you.
@@Defsould Franco was very kick in gaining their support, that when the republicans call them in descolonization talks, they were not even there because they were supporting Franco in the Peninsula
@@robertortiz-wilson1588indigenous Moroccans. These specifically were race traitors who had put down liberation movements in Morocco against their Spanish occupiers. There were plans on the Republican side to try to influence these to go back to Morocco and care for their families instead of dying in a war for their colonisers.
when i read Homage to Catalonia there was a part where there officers and regular soldiers treated each other as equals and the officers had to convince the soldiers to fight that the moment i realized republican spain lost 🏴
Awesome video about the Spanish civil war in History Class, I only learn that the reason the republics lost the war was because they were less organized and armed I didn't know the committed too many strategic mistakes and had a lot of infighting.
They were Commies and had no idea how to run anything.
Es como somos los españoles, buenos soldados, pero pésimos líderes
Thank for speaking about my country. My family fought during the war for franco
Based
God bless them
Honestly, they made the right decision.
The republicans were a mess.
@@Kaiserboo1871 even worse they're all godless heathens
are you proud of that? You're proud of your fascist family? Yikes.
I love the "hon hon hon! My economy is caput!"
Pius XII casually being a Chad.
Franco reading the letter probably felt like it was a "You Win!" screen
So true.
@@ambiguousdrink4067 It's like the ending screen in Minecraft when you beat the Ender Dragon
PLEASE after the Spanish episodes, PLEASE do the greek civil war
Second.
1:40 Bilbao is not the Basque capital, Vitoria-Gasteiz is, we can say Bilbao was more of a industrial capital. It is a common misconception even for Basque people tho.
The irony of the Ebro Offensive is that the Republic's first competently launched major offensive was also their last.
like last time, I'm here to annoy:
- "Un cimetière sous la lune" by Bernanos, a French action militant (not really left-wing) who denounced the nationalist crimes committed with the support of the Church, also did much to damage the international image of the nationalists.
-From the revolution onwards, the CNT was no longer a united bloc (and hardly had been before), divided between possibilists, trentistes and radical anarchists (yes, even for anarchists). If anyone's interested, I could elaborate.
-The weakness of the Republican militias", yes, but meanwhile, who made the only Republican advance of the war?
La collone durruti (signed: the anarchist band)
-I'd like to see the sources, for the Brigadists' change of sides as most of them were blind and radical Stalinists.
-I think that Catalonia, an anarchist stronghold, fell so easily because the battle had already been fought in 1938 against the republic, and Catalonia had already been defeated.
-Funny story: the military junta that overthrew the republic was supported by the central CNT (but not by the CNT in general).
-Technically, the civil war continued in the 60s with the maquis, and fascist propaganda ensured that it continued in people's minds until the end of Francoism.
-morality, fuck the communists.
I need elaboration on anarchists.
@@amhuman5138 Me too
@@pannik_lucas he possibilistes libertaires (who won the majority of votes at the 1936 congress and whose leader is the general secretary of the CNT) are anarchists who essentially want to take control of the state with the help of a party or a trade union (basically, they're Marxists who don't take on too much, but I'm biased here). Anarchist ministers don't come out of nowhere.
Treintism, its life of the "Manifesto of the Thirty", in 1936, they merged more and more with the possibilists and the main difference is that they had split in the 20s/early 30s to make a libertarian party.
And the radical anarchists are mainly the Durruti Column, the Friends of Durruti (there's a lot of Durruti for people who are supposed to burn idols, isn't there?), the Iron Column and the Libertarian Youth. These are the groups that stay true to doctrine and refuse to deal with the state/bourgeoisie. They were the ones who took up arms during the May Days of 1937. That said, even in the radical branch, one criticism is that they have tended to want to form defense councils, and that these are merely states in disguise.
That said, the CNT's divisions are not the part of the social revolution I understand best. If you're interested, read CNT et le pouvoir (by César M.Lorenzo, more of a possibilist) and CNT dans la révolutions de 1936 et lutte de toujours (by José Peirat, more of a radical).
*the
14:55 1st time you used that red alert classic
I think I ve never heard an english speaking youtuber mention so many times Extremadura, thanks!
8:28 why the hell is Portugal so big lol
the artist is Portuguese
I love these videos so much! Interesting content and visuals. Epic!
19:06 wow, this is epic
Been waiting for this for a while. Keep making the videos we love Ezekiel!
Wow this video was definitely a top 5 so far, love the production quality and jokes
I'm spanish, i love your stuff man, it's top content
The art is just getting better and better. Keep up the good work👍
18:02 Glad to see the handi-pole is getting used more and more
This certainly is the best art for a video so far. The fact that both comedic and serious moments are in it is great. Other videos like those about the russian civil war had it too, but the serious scenes were rarer. Great work.
A video on Division Azul would be a cool follow-up to this series
0:16 ARE THOSE... ARE THOSE 2 ENGINED 109s!???!?!??!?!?!?!
8:00 bruh aint no way his gun actually broke in half 💀
I love your videos man! They are always so in depth and interesting, and on niche topics that for some reason draw me in and won’t let go! Personally I think it would be amazing if you could go into the Baltic War of Liberation, as I don’t hear to much about it. It’d also be cool to know why they didn’t band together afterwards to stop further Soviet or German encroachment.
Anyway, keep up the great videos!
To be fair about the Guernica bit, I heard that the day was very foggy and that people weren't fully aware yet of the damage that modern bombers could inflict. Don't take my word for it though
"Alright, all we have to do to win the war is push into this easily invadable poorly defended region, crush the south, and push north to win the war, what do you think, Spain?"
Soviets: no
Great video. You should also do a series about the Greek civil war
Can you please make a video on the "whacky" ideologies? Nazbols,Posadists,Egoists,ect
the egoist are gonna enjoy this one.
The only good thing about raid is that everyone knows it’s bad so there is no risk of deceiving someone.
Who could have predicted it that within a movement most hardline, statist, brutal and uncompromising option will amass all the power... Anarchists and center-left taking L's as always XD
It's a trend that when society breaks down, the most radical of positions eventually take over rather than the more moderate ones.
Like with the Russian Civil War, Chinese Civil War, French Revolution, etc.etc.
@KaiHung-wv3ul They all got L's eventually, lol.
The Bolsheviks eventually got moderated when Stalin died (long-term W for Mensheviks), the French Republic became the French Empire when the republic was too weak to govern itself and Napoleon cleaned up the mess that the Republic made, and the PRC no longer follows the Maoist vision when Deng Xiaping took control.
tbh, there is a reason extremadura is called extremadura, which roughly translates to "extremely hard", the terrain there would be an absolute nightmare since even as of today it has terrible infrastructure.
Even if I am a leftist, I enjoy this channel
Seen too much left wing perspectives on the civil war
This one is refreshing
based fellow leftist trying to get unbiased perspectives
no gods no masters, my comrade
Based af, Ezekiel's video on Anarcho-Syndicalism is also very convincing
You a christian anarcho socialist what?
This isnt really unbiased and its no surprise you as an anarchist support the fascist propaganda rather than the communists because you hate real communists because you are just another fascist apologist liberal scum
I love how he uses the " X? Not in my X." Template.
The objective of the Ebre offensive was, according to Rojo(the mastermind behind it), to stop the attack on Valencia, and prolong the war until WW2 started, and France could help.
I like the hands detail
Btw, the blue división did increíblebly well and were very brave
The Nationalists may not have been great with propaganda, but they did have RAID SHADOW LEGENDS
YOU FINALLY GOT THE RAID SPONSORSHIP!!
There are few holdouts left, and they will eventually sell out in time....alas, how the mighty has fallen.
The Spanish Civil war aka What happens if Mussolini and Stalin were opposing forces of the Civil war.
Love how this callmeEzekiel talks about less know wars
7:39. I concur on this point, I think it would be Falangist on the surface, but ideologically Carlist (disregarding individual Falangists), as seen with the post war policies of Franco.
"HoI4 lied to you" hahahahahahaaa
20:24 i confirm this message
I have spent the entire week waiting for this video.
"This video is sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends" Bro's stuck in 2020
Honestly, Ezekiel should do a First Spanish Republic video
I love the mess that is Spanish hostory
We are Chaos made real since the invasion of Napoleon.
An anarchist flag with a chi-rho symbol? interesting
This was great 🏴
Nice to know the media has not changed one iota.
I am Spanish and I have to say that it is a very good series of videos, I am glad that the nationalists won but I am not afraid to say that Franco wasn´t our best leader, but is undeniable to say that we wpuld be much worse off if the communists or anarchists won.
Congrats on the sponsorship.
Get that bread.
11:25 LET'S GOOOOO MY TOWN
I would love to hear your take on Operation Barbarossa.
Your videos are really amazing i hope you do a video on the greek civil war when you are done with whatever else you're working on
Imagine how bad it would have been if the other side won
Hahahaha...Imagine if Stalin was Running Spain...That is your answer.
@@silverhawkscape2677 yeah, i feel like people always say, 'oh how terrible, the world let fascism continue into the 70's' but they would hate the other side more, because they wouldn't be going to Barcelona for their holidays. Imagine Barcelona like a hot Moscow.
I highly doubt the Soviets would have been able to hold lots of power over Spain. Stalin couldn't even hold Yugoslavia within his grip and he had multiple puppet governments surrounding him. I highly doubt he would be able to hold a country on the opposite side of Europe, surrounded by Capitalist powers, in his grip. If the Republicans survived after WW2 they likely would have adopted neutrality as its stance, Spain likely would have a similar foreign policy to Yugoslavia. In addition any style of socialism implemented would be much different than implemented in the USSR, due to the influence of the anarchists it is likely Spain would have a bottom-up power system instead of top-down like in the USSR, which replaced rich elites with bureaucratic elites.
@@pavan923lol...of course, every defeated communist movement would surely have built a fair and equal utopia.... funny how that's never happened in reality.
Gulags but with a Spanish name that sounds less industrial, a few million dead in a famine created by the glorious socialist state in the name of progress and the greater good, eventually mass alcoholism, stagnation and despair...*edit* and ugly grey architecture.
To be honest i was thinking about attacking that bulge in the centre that peer-ren-eese panhandle and evacuating the north to consolidate what we had, shorten the front and whittle away at the franco's forces. Sorry i am an amateur eithout all the facts but at least i didnt want photo ops
11:16 HOI2 music ahoy!
One thing is certain
Ezekiel knows how to hype up the audience
Lol I-16 shot down by Ju-87 really brings out the argument of incompetence.
Exactly. Using tracer rounds on a Ju 87 means more or less it's fucked.
Very interesting as always and a very good choice of music.
14:43 *Insert Red Alert 2 quote here*
Truly a great victory!
Thank you so much bc i have exams in a couple of weeks and watching this videos was a goof way to remember all the details in a short time
"hoi4 lied to you" made me laugh a lot
very good video! how about doing korea's history of 1945 to korean war? that time was very much like spain's. political violence in the streets, and purging between left and right happend a lot. especially in the korean war because the frontline changed too fast and too much, which meant that both side can do atrocities unlike spain civil war
Your videos stopped showing up in my feed for sometime and now I'm binging the backlog and the quality of videos has skyrocketed, even the soundtrack. How did you do it dude?
9:12 I said I'd go for Madrid 😩 guess I'm terrible at strategy.
So basically the Republicans lost because of classic russian tactics?
just completed a POUM HOI game to celebrate the serries.
"it finally happened: This video is sponsored by RAID SHADOW LEGENDS"
Huge twist at the end
Love your videos! I would enjoy to hear about the Italian role in the war if possible!
Oh god. Raid even infested Ezekiel
We are all going to be consumed eventually!
If I could suggest a philosophy for you to explain;
The Tolstoyan Movement:
Pacifist-Anarchism, Christian-Anarchism, Christian-Socialism, Vegetarianism.
Better red than green!
9:50 ish. I had the instinct of thinking that attacking Extremadura to split the Fascist forces when looking at the map. But Portugal was backing them. So they could probably move through their territory. So maybe not as effective as all that.
Right? Everyone ou here talking about Estremadura being ideal to split up the Nationalists seems to forget the fact that there would always be supply routes through the west via Portugal. Now, to be fair, Salazar was very cautious in his support, and so the Nationalists certainly wouldn't have that much power in this, but it'd probably be enough to still supply Seville and such.
Estremadura itself also didn't have that much value. Like, it wasn't very populated nor industrialised, and it wasn't even that productive as an agricultural base.
Really, the only major benefit of taking it would be the strategic values of the region, and that could only be applied fully if you could perhaps move down the border and cutting of all major roads. The Republicans did control the navy, so I doubt the Nationalists would get that much support by sea.
In all fairness, Estremadura was a very good place to make an offensive, but it wasn't the only one, and perhaps some other places, if well organised (which wouldn't happen because Republicans, but still) would probably be even better.
@@12D_D21 They definitely couold've gotten supplies through, but I doubt Salazar would've let them bring troops over, so it's still a good idea, better than attacking Madrid anyway.
@@KaiHung-wv3ulyea Salazar in no way would allow troop movements or heavy supplies just for the sole reason that he wouldn't want a bunch of armed militia men roaming the Portuguese countryside
You have a new anarchist subsciber!🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
I just had red and yellow pills.
8:30
Hm.... As a Hearts of Iron Player I would cut Extremadura off, finish the south, and hold the north until I plan an offensive to drive them away from Madrid and beyond.
I literally just finished watching the first part and 2 minutes later “boom” notifications
When Guernica is only famous because of Picasso