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  • @CallMeEzekiel
    @CallMeEzekiel  Рік тому +88

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    • @dankminecraft_train4248
      @dankminecraft_train4248 Рік тому +6

      After finishing this series, could you try doing a series on other South American dictatorships during the Cold War??

    • @crusader2112
      @crusader2112 Рік тому +1

      Could you cover Peter Kemp’s other two books?

    • @DogeickBateman
      @DogeickBateman Рік тому +5

      Why do all your background tracks slap

    • @deutschesmanutter
      @deutschesmanutter Рік тому +13

      You’ve fallen to the dark side

    • @leigon.
      @leigon. Рік тому +2

      PLEASE after the Spanish episodes, PLEASE do the greek civil war

  • @mikeycost6917
    @mikeycost6917 Рік тому +1457

    “I’m sorry HoI 4 lied to you”
    -CallMeEzekiel
    Probably my favorite quote lol

    • @nikitaavdeev9681
      @nikitaavdeev9681 Рік тому +144

      Years of academy training wasted

    • @Captain_Ender
      @Captain_Ender Рік тому +119

      There goes my history degree

    • @polishscribe674
      @polishscribe674 Рік тому +55

      Hoi4 tends to lie
      "7TP: great war light tank chassis"
      "Nationalist Spain (fascist)"
      Are mere examples.

    • @spiffygonzales5160
      @spiffygonzales5160 Рік тому +53

      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

    • @jadentoonsyt5309
      @jadentoonsyt5309 Рік тому +2

      Nooooooooooo

  • @saintture7952
    @saintture7952 Рік тому +675

    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

    • @javivichusd
      @javivichusd Рік тому +170

      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.

    • @cramw139
      @cramw139 Рік тому

      He wanted to kill every socialist, catalan, or basque

    • @NanoGamingGamer
      @NanoGamingGamer Рік тому +1

      Communist propaganda.

    • @KaiHung-wv3ul
      @KaiHung-wv3ul Рік тому +15

      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?

    • @saintture7952
      @saintture7952 Рік тому

      @@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.

  • @D4rkmatter
    @D4rkmatter Рік тому +261

    "That would involve the communists admitting they had made a mistake, and they never do that"
    I love that quote

  • @EmisoraRadioPatio
    @EmisoraRadioPatio Рік тому +321

    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
      @Aquelequedesconhece Рік тому +50

      Based xavier

    • @Fordo007
      @Fordo007 Рік тому +87

      @@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.

    • @tenanaciouz
      @tenanaciouz Рік тому +4

      Source?

    • @CineMasterDamian
      @CineMasterDamian Рік тому +8

      @@tenanaciouz Trust me bro

    • @nox5555
      @nox5555 Рік тому

      @@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.

  • @achour.falestine
    @achour.falestine Рік тому +987

    _hate government
    _become anarchist
    _ally with moscow
    _fight war
    _die
    The short life of anarchist societies 😔🏴

  • @PrincipledMaverick
    @PrincipledMaverick Рік тому +500

    "Hearts of Iron IV lied to you,"
    ah yes, the floor is made of floor

    • @def3ndr887
      @def3ndr887 Рік тому +14

      sometimes historical does some funky things

    • @adamraserovaquera
      @adamraserovaquera Рік тому

      Nope, moscow infiltrated your floor and now is all коммунистическая почва

    • @The_whales
      @The_whales 6 місяців тому +10

      Another way hoi4 lies to you: makes AI Germany invade Benelux and France before Denmark and Norway

    • @DuplexWeevil337
      @DuplexWeevil337 4 місяці тому +1

      ​@@The_whales indeed

  • @owenhammond1880
    @owenhammond1880 Рік тому +811

    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?!"

    • @The_Soviet_Onion
      @The_Soviet_Onion Рік тому +105

      Extremadura is like the Resident Evil 4 village so probably very hard

    • @thisisaname5589
      @thisisaname5589 Рік тому

      It's so beautiful to watch commie filth destroy themselves.

    • @lolmenx4
      @lolmenx4 Рік тому +9

      ​@@The_Soviet_Onion real

    • @primarchstar2087
      @primarchstar2087 Рік тому +21

      @@The_Soviet_Onion I honestly might not blame them... I wouldn't even force the Alcazar Puzzles on even my worst enemies :'(

    • @darmandez
      @darmandez 10 місяців тому +5

      @@The_Soviet_Onion Except with 90% less latinoamericans xD

  • @MegnetaFusion
    @MegnetaFusion Рік тому +958

    NOT RAID ANYTHING BUT RAID 😱🔥💀

  • @javivichusd
    @javivichusd Рік тому +434

    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.

    • @candy.connor
      @candy.connor Рік тому +8

      Ikr

    • @thisisaname5589
      @thisisaname5589 Рік тому

      The reason the republic lost was because nationalism is a superior ideology, communists are evil filth, and anarchists are utterly useless.

    • @TheFrenchBaguettes
      @TheFrenchBaguettes Рік тому +48

      We'll it's not completely wrong

    • @Inoffensive_name
      @Inoffensive_name Рік тому +44

      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.

    • @BlazeLycan
      @BlazeLycan Рік тому +133

      ​@@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.

  • @nathanseper8738
    @nathanseper8738 Рік тому +830

    Stalin: The Anarchists 🏴are objectively fascists.
    Also, Stalin: (makes a deal with a fascist to divide Eastern Europe).

  • @adamaitouahmane6519
    @adamaitouahmane6519 Рік тому +200

    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
      @DogeickBateman Рік тому +13

      Most of the books covering it as well tends to be *insanely* biased, so Ezekiel's video is a rare breath of fresh air

    • @Defsould
      @Defsould Рік тому +3

      ​@@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.

    • @DogeickBateman
      @DogeickBateman Рік тому +2

      @@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

    • @DogeickBateman
      @DogeickBateman Рік тому +1

      @@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

    • @occam7382
      @occam7382 Рік тому +1

      @@Defsould, "Mine Were of Trouble" is the book you're referring to, I believe.

  • @LeoLeo-vz6vs
    @LeoLeo-vz6vs Рік тому +346

    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.

    • @akumaking1
      @akumaking1 Рік тому

      Leftist infighting is always glorious

    • @phonyzebra3848
      @phonyzebra3848 Рік тому

      Sounds a lot like the Russian Civil War had the whites beaten the reds.

    • @jimmothy3012
      @jimmothy3012 Рік тому +8

      Yeah that would be really interesting, it was very short though.

    • @soulsidejourney2693
      @soulsidejourney2693 Рік тому +3

      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.

    • @mhhmsmfshsmhfh
      @mhhmsmfshsmhfh Рік тому

      I want a video on this, I'm currently reading a book about it and its pretty interesting.😊

  • @josephpalaiologos
    @josephpalaiologos Рік тому +130

    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?

  • @SomebodyThatExistsYT
    @SomebodyThatExistsYT Рік тому +87

    I find it hilarious that there’s a continuous joke of _____? Not in MY _____!

    • @akumaking1
      @akumaking1 Рік тому +28

      Communism: “Food? Not in my country!”

  • @polishscribe674
    @polishscribe674 Рік тому +113

    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.

    • @itsbunny2552
      @itsbunny2552 Рік тому +3

      I agree

    • @delano4526
      @delano4526 Рік тому +4

      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.

    • @maximilianolimamoreira5002
      @maximilianolimamoreira5002 Рік тому +3

      ​@@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

  • @victorramos4165
    @victorramos4165 Рік тому +364

    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.

    • @kingofcards9
      @kingofcards9 Рік тому

      That's because historical revisionism is a key tactic by leftists.

    • @cyberpunkfalangist2899
      @cyberpunkfalangist2899 Рік тому

      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.

    • @JamesFTW1
      @JamesFTW1 Рік тому

      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

    • @victorramos4165
      @victorramos4165 Рік тому

      ​@@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.

    • @internetkurator9256
      @internetkurator9256 Рік тому +67

      The left always had good cancel culture

  • @progmetalJorge
    @progmetalJorge Рік тому +23

    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.

    • @KalashVodka175
      @KalashVodka175 Рік тому +20

      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

    • @progmetalJorge
      @progmetalJorge Рік тому +11

      @@KalashVodka175 yeah, voting in military is stupid the same way voting for the most popular passenger of a plane to be the pilot.

    • @imgvillasrc1608
      @imgvillasrc1608 10 місяців тому +7

      ​@@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.

    • @KalashVodka175
      @KalashVodka175 10 місяців тому +6

      @@imgvillasrc1608
      Fair point but it would go against their objective of having no « unjust hierarchy »
      Like a dog eating its own tail

    • @HistoryMonarch1999
      @HistoryMonarch1999 7 місяців тому +2

      @@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

  • @klemklemius5091
    @klemklemius5091 Рік тому +50

    You should make a vid about the Greek Civil war

    • @Kaiserboo1871
      @Kaiserboo1871 Рік тому

      Do all the communist civil wars.
      Russia, Spain, Finland, China, etc.

  • @z0ro_62
    @z0ro_62 9 місяців тому +27

    So journalists being journalists same now as then😂

  • @poissonpoison3090
    @poissonpoison3090 Рік тому +66

    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

    • @robertortiz-wilson1588
      @robertortiz-wilson1588 Рік тому +3

      Who is that?

    • @Defsould
      @Defsould Рік тому +24

      ​@@robertortiz-wilson1588 North-african tribes, Franco was very respected and admired by these men, they even thought he had "Baraka".

    • @robertortiz-wilson1588
      @robertortiz-wilson1588 Рік тому

      @Eyrik Valkland ah, thank you.

    • @poissonpoison3090
      @poissonpoison3090 Рік тому +11

      @@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

    • @Aurora-oe2qp
      @Aurora-oe2qp Рік тому

      ​@@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.

  • @clover1475
    @clover1475 Рік тому +23

    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 🏴

  • @Darkshaymin164
    @Darkshaymin164 Рік тому +39

    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.

    • @nox5555
      @nox5555 Рік тому

      They were Commies and had no idea how to run anything.

    • @xiangonzalezbello5305
      @xiangonzalezbello5305 Рік тому +1

      Es como somos los españoles, buenos soldados, pero pésimos líderes

  • @albertomunoyerro5562
    @albertomunoyerro5562 Рік тому +113

    Thank for speaking about my country. My family fought during the war for franco

  • @Ussonan-Foderation2016
    @Ussonan-Foderation2016 Рік тому +21

    I love the "hon hon hon! My economy is caput!"

  • @polishscribe674
    @polishscribe674 Рік тому +164

    Pius XII casually being a Chad.

    • @ambiguousdrink4067
      @ambiguousdrink4067 Рік тому +43

      Franco reading the letter probably felt like it was a "You Win!" screen

    • @ThirdPlenaryBaltimore
      @ThirdPlenaryBaltimore Рік тому +11

      So true.

    • @LordValorum
      @LordValorum 6 місяців тому +2

      ​@@ambiguousdrink4067 It's like the ending screen in Minecraft when you beat the Ender Dragon

  • @leigon.
    @leigon. Рік тому +46

    PLEASE after the Spanish episodes, PLEASE do the greek civil war

  • @7bladeX
    @7bladeX Рік тому +10

    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.

  • @KaiHung-wv3ul
    @KaiHung-wv3ul Рік тому +10

    The irony of the Ebro Offensive is that the Republic's first competently launched major offensive was also their last.

  • @mab_ian5748
    @mab_ian5748 Рік тому +21

    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.

    • @amhuman5138
      @amhuman5138 Рік тому +3

      I need elaboration on anarchists.

    • @pannik_lucas
      @pannik_lucas Рік тому +2

      ​@@amhuman5138 Me too

    • @mab_ian5748
      @mab_ian5748 Рік тому

      @@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).

    • @mab_ian5748
      @mab_ian5748 Рік тому

      *the

  • @wwrainbowbeastrainbowbeast9687
    @wwrainbowbeastrainbowbeast9687 Рік тому +10

    14:55 1st time you used that red alert classic

  • @grancapitan7822
    @grancapitan7822 Рік тому +9

    I think I ve never heard an english speaking youtuber mention so many times Extremadura, thanks!

  • @hyperm8
    @hyperm8 Рік тому +22

    8:28 why the hell is Portugal so big lol

    • @NH2-
      @NH2- Рік тому +17

      the artist is Portuguese

  • @klemklemius5091
    @klemklemius5091 Рік тому +25

    I love these videos so much! Interesting content and visuals. Epic!

  • @Aquelequedesconhece
    @Aquelequedesconhece Рік тому +8

    19:06 wow, this is epic

  • @HeWhoComments1
    @HeWhoComments1 Рік тому +15

    Been waiting for this for a while. Keep making the videos we love Ezekiel!

  • @aidanlua8462
    @aidanlua8462 Рік тому +8

    Wow this video was definitely a top 5 so far, love the production quality and jokes

  • @igorgdlt8744
    @igorgdlt8744 Рік тому +5

    I'm spanish, i love your stuff man, it's top content

  • @alvarjarvelin7269
    @alvarjarvelin7269 Рік тому +7

    The art is just getting better and better. Keep up the good work👍

  • @skatingfreak1670
    @skatingfreak1670 Рік тому +3

    18:02 Glad to see the handi-pole is getting used more and more

  • @SuiuS1
    @SuiuS1 Рік тому +9

    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.

  • @varangian_8118
    @varangian_8118 Рік тому +14

    A video on Division Azul would be a cool follow-up to this series

  • @warmox1215
    @warmox1215 Рік тому +9

    0:16 ARE THOSE... ARE THOSE 2 ENGINED 109s!???!?!??!?!?!?!

  • @candy.connor
    @candy.connor Рік тому +12

    8:00 bruh aint no way his gun actually broke in half 💀

  • @microclone891
    @microclone891 Рік тому +6

    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!

  • @ivanrenic4243
    @ivanrenic4243 Рік тому +3

    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

  • @delano4526
    @delano4526 Рік тому +18

    "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

  • @dimitristzounakis5558
    @dimitristzounakis5558 Рік тому +7

    Great video. You should also do a series about the Greek civil war

  • @usefulcrackhead2485
    @usefulcrackhead2485 Рік тому +12

    Can you please make a video on the "whacky" ideologies? Nazbols,Posadists,Egoists,ect

    • @fm56001
      @fm56001 Рік тому +1

      the egoist are gonna enjoy this one.

  • @AlexSmith-jj9ul
    @AlexSmith-jj9ul Рік тому +6

    The only good thing about raid is that everyone knows it’s bad so there is no risk of deceiving someone.

  • @hubertino855
    @hubertino855 Рік тому +43

    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

    • @stephenjenkins7971
      @stephenjenkins7971 Рік тому +2

      It's a trend that when society breaks down, the most radical of positions eventually take over rather than the more moderate ones.

    • @KaiHung-wv3ul
      @KaiHung-wv3ul Рік тому +2

      Like with the Russian Civil War, Chinese Civil War, French Revolution, etc.etc.

    • @imgvillasrc1608
      @imgvillasrc1608 10 місяців тому +1

      ​@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.

  • @theguardlorenzo5898
    @theguardlorenzo5898 Рік тому +3

    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.

  • @botangabriel3492
    @botangabriel3492 Рік тому +133

    Even if I am a leftist, I enjoy this channel
    Seen too much left wing perspectives on the civil war
    This one is refreshing

    • @aidenbooksmith2351
      @aidenbooksmith2351 Рік тому +65

      based fellow leftist trying to get unbiased perspectives

    • @aidenbooksmith2351
      @aidenbooksmith2351 Рік тому +17

      no gods no masters, my comrade

    • @sirtiner37
      @sirtiner37 Рік тому +22

      Based af, Ezekiel's video on Anarcho-Syndicalism is also very convincing

    • @republicradio431
      @republicradio431 Рік тому +6

      You a christian anarcho socialist what?

    • @prophet_master
      @prophet_master Рік тому

      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

  • @nabe346
    @nabe346 Рік тому +5

    I love how he uses the " X? Not in my X." Template.

  • @cramw139
    @cramw139 Рік тому +8

    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.

  • @Aquelequedesconhece
    @Aquelequedesconhece Рік тому +3

    I like the hands detail

  • @ikercervera6071
    @ikercervera6071 Рік тому +4

    Btw, the blue división did increíblebly well and were very brave

  • @WispyKatt
    @WispyKatt Рік тому +8

    The Nationalists may not have been great with propaganda, but they did have RAID SHADOW LEGENDS

  • @buddermonger2000
    @buddermonger2000 Рік тому +4

    YOU FINALLY GOT THE RAID SPONSORSHIP!!

    • @KaiHung-wv3ul
      @KaiHung-wv3ul Рік тому +1

      There are few holdouts left, and they will eventually sell out in time....alas, how the mighty has fallen.

  • @silverhawkscape2677
    @silverhawkscape2677 9 місяців тому +4

    The Spanish Civil war aka What happens if Mussolini and Stalin were opposing forces of the Civil war.

  • @nalanhazzard
    @nalanhazzard Рік тому +12

    Love how this callmeEzekiel talks about less know wars

  • @zandrus9191
    @zandrus9191 Рік тому +10

    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.

  • @klemklemius5091
    @klemklemius5091 Рік тому +15

    "HoI4 lied to you" hahahahahahaaa

  • @thesovietunion6604
    @thesovietunion6604 Рік тому +4

    20:24 i confirm this message

  • @mudhutonthemoon
    @mudhutonthemoon Рік тому +4

    I have spent the entire week waiting for this video.

  • @LECOMMANDANTCAMEROUN
    @LECOMMANDANTCAMEROUN Рік тому +10

    "This video is sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends" Bro's stuck in 2020

  • @botangabriel3492
    @botangabriel3492 Рік тому +10

    Honestly, Ezekiel should do a First Spanish Republic video
    I love the mess that is Spanish hostory

    • @Defsould
      @Defsould Рік тому +3

      We are Chaos made real since the invasion of Napoleon.

    • @kansas370
      @kansas370 Рік тому +2

      An anarchist flag with a chi-rho symbol? interesting

  • @SzaposJogdan2733
    @SzaposJogdan2733 Рік тому +8

    This was great 🏴

  • @stoyanb.1668
    @stoyanb.1668 Рік тому +1

    Nice to know the media has not changed one iota.

  • @Fenixion88ZX
    @Fenixion88ZX Рік тому +12

    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.

  • @carltonbauheimer
    @carltonbauheimer Рік тому +6

    Congrats on the sponsorship.
    Get that bread.

  • @arriba_teruel
    @arriba_teruel Рік тому +3

    11:25 LET'S GOOOOO MY TOWN

  • @Warrior-Of-Virtue
    @Warrior-Of-Virtue Рік тому +8

    I would love to hear your take on Operation Barbarossa.

  • @jimbojebo8106
    @jimbojebo8106 Рік тому +3

    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

  • @thunderbolt1964
    @thunderbolt1964 9 місяців тому +10

    Imagine how bad it would have been if the other side won

    • @silverhawkscape2677
      @silverhawkscape2677 9 місяців тому +10

      Hahahaha...Imagine if Stalin was Running Spain...That is your answer.

    • @thunderbolt1964
      @thunderbolt1964 9 місяців тому +8

      @@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.

    • @pavan923
      @pavan923 9 місяців тому +5

      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.

    • @michaelwarenycia7588
      @michaelwarenycia7588 9 місяців тому +2

      ​@@pavan923lol...of course, every defeated communist movement would surely have built a fair and equal utopia.... funny how that's never happened in reality.

    • @michaelwarenycia7588
      @michaelwarenycia7588 9 місяців тому +6

      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.

  • @PeterKennedy-b1h
    @PeterKennedy-b1h Рік тому +5

    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

  • @aleidius192
    @aleidius192 Рік тому +4

    11:16 HOI2 music ahoy!

  • @GLASSMOSCOWANDBEIJING
    @GLASSMOSCOWANDBEIJING Рік тому +3

    One thing is certain
    Ezekiel knows how to hype up the audience

  • @jansvoboda4293
    @jansvoboda4293 Рік тому +3

    Lol I-16 shot down by Ju-87 really brings out the argument of incompetence.

    • @squeaky206
      @squeaky206 Рік тому

      Exactly. Using tracer rounds on a Ju 87 means more or less it's fucked.

  • @Nerohessler
    @Nerohessler Рік тому +4

    Very interesting as always and a very good choice of music.

  • @mercenarygundam1487
    @mercenarygundam1487 11 місяців тому +2

    14:43 *Insert Red Alert 2 quote here*

  • @localbio
    @localbio Рік тому +5

    Truly a great victory!

  • @lolmenx4
    @lolmenx4 Рік тому +1

    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

  • @tpalmer4757
    @tpalmer4757 Рік тому +8

    "hoi4 lied to you" made me laugh a lot

  • @Sopmod-py1ee
    @Sopmod-py1ee Рік тому +6

    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

  • @opinionatortv6457
    @opinionatortv6457 Рік тому +6

    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?

  • @nethlandpancake3630
    @nethlandpancake3630 Рік тому +3

    9:12 I said I'd go for Madrid 😩 guess I'm terrible at strategy.

  • @AllenorLP
    @AllenorLP Рік тому +8

    So basically the Republicans lost because of classic russian tactics?

  • @BeigeEyesCroissantDragon
    @BeigeEyesCroissantDragon Рік тому +3

    just completed a POUM HOI game to celebrate the serries.

  • @e.r.robert1062
    @e.r.robert1062 Рік тому +3

    "it finally happened: This video is sponsored by RAID SHADOW LEGENDS"

  • @czachiles4635
    @czachiles4635 Рік тому +1

    Huge twist at the end

  • @Dahomeyian
    @Dahomeyian Рік тому +8

    Love your videos! I would enjoy to hear about the Italian role in the war if possible!

  • @G69zLmL
    @G69zLmL Рік тому +6

    Oh god. Raid even infested Ezekiel
    We are all going to be consumed eventually!

  • @rimfire8217
    @rimfire8217 Рік тому +3

    If I could suggest a philosophy for you to explain;
    The Tolstoyan Movement:
    Pacifist-Anarchism, Christian-Anarchism, Christian-Socialism, Vegetarianism.

  • @erf3176
    @erf3176 Рік тому +16

    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.

    • @12D_D21
      @12D_D21 Рік тому +4

      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.

    • @KaiHung-wv3ul
      @KaiHung-wv3ul Рік тому +2

      @@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.

    • @lucasfragoso7634
      @lucasfragoso7634 Рік тому

      ​@@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

  • @endrekiss3007
    @endrekiss3007 Рік тому +5

    You have a new anarchist subsciber!🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴

  • @witoldkopaczewski3954
    @witoldkopaczewski3954 Рік тому +4

    I just had red and yellow pills.

  • @RoyalRoseTrue
    @RoyalRoseTrue Рік тому +6

    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.

  • @norwayball6360
    @norwayball6360 Рік тому +2

    I literally just finished watching the first part and 2 minutes later “boom” notifications

  • @CliffCardi
    @CliffCardi Рік тому +4

    When Guernica is only famous because of Picasso