How the Nationalists Won the Spanish Civil War (ft. History w/Hilbert) | Animated History

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    Preston, Paul. 2007. The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge. W. W. Norton & Company.
    “Spanish Civil War | Definition, Causes, Summary, & Facts.” n.d. Encyclopedia Britannica. Accessed May 25, 2019. www.britannica.com/event/Span....
    Editors, History com. n.d. “Francisco Franco.” HISTORY. Accessed June 20, 2019. www.history.com/topics/world-....
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  • @TheArmchairHistorian
    @TheArmchairHistorian  5 років тому +575

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    • @thun8393
      @thun8393 5 років тому +3

      Can you do a video about Thai history

    • @boredfox9063
      @boredfox9063 5 років тому

      The Armchair Historian yeeee

    • @anthonymontecillo6057
      @anthonymontecillo6057 5 років тому

      I saw you making the video in the livestream

    • @peeley111
      @peeley111 5 років тому +1

      12:00 Comprising, not compromising - @History with Herbert

    • @xxx6797
      @xxx6797 5 років тому +1

      Nice bearth but i tought you are a nerd and They dont have sth. Like this

  • @vidk.6304
    @vidk.6304 5 років тому +6092

    Spanish Civil war❌
    WW2 Early Beta Version✔

    • @curium9622
      @curium9622 5 років тому +147

      Cancer Man Closed Beta

    • @bogdangabrielonete3467
      @bogdangabrielonete3467 5 років тому +153

      EA: Buy early access now for just 60$

    • @carlosquintela2950
      @carlosquintela2950 5 років тому +56

      As a Spanish y think that you make this jokes because you have no clue about the war and you didn't loose any of your family members in it

    • @vidk.6304
      @vidk.6304 5 років тому +93

      @@bogdangabrielonete3467 Unlock tanks for just 10$

    • @vidk.6304
      @vidk.6304 5 років тому +172

      @@carlosquintela2950 As a Slovene I think people make jokes about our country just because they weren't opressed by other nations for about 1000 years like us...there you go, now you know that my people also suffered, just like other people in other countries.

  • @wizar6712
    @wizar6712 5 років тому +2750

    Because when the volunteers came, the soviet union still had -45% organization to their units from _officers purged_

    • @googleminus1442
      @googleminus1442 5 років тому +300

      Imagine doing the great purge
      -this comment was brought to you by the trotsky gang

    • @jan_kisan
      @jan_kisan 5 років тому +45

      this purge affected only a very small percentage of the military, you could look up the actual numbers and perhaps some western intelligence reports about the effects. the problems with organization in the Red Army were mostly due to it being in the middle of a huge reorganization, the hole unit system being shuffled in urgent attempts to prepare for the great war.

    • @wizar6712
      @wizar6712 5 років тому +178

      @@jan_kisan Its a Hearts Of Iron 4 Reference

    • @jan_kisan
      @jan_kisan 5 років тому +17

      @@wizar6712 oh, alright, haven't played this one yet

    • @polygondwanaland8390
      @polygondwanaland8390 4 роки тому +52

      @@jan_kisan and the event he's referencing does refer to the real purge, the loss of "45% organization" is a measure of combat effectiveness, not a claim that 45% of the officers were killed. I don't think it's a stretch to say that the later, well organized Soviets were more than twice as effective, rendering the game's rendition of the purge passable for a game event.

  • @peterfeng7161
    @peterfeng7161 3 роки тому +2096

    Spain: exists
    This enraged Spain, who punished Spain severely.

    • @Retaliatixn
      @Retaliatixn 3 роки тому +143

      Choose your fighter :
      > Spain.
      Or
      > Spain.

    • @peterfeng7161
      @peterfeng7161 3 роки тому +65

      @@Retaliatixn Hmmm... A hard decision... I choose Spain!

    • @herrdoctor2895
      @herrdoctor2895 3 роки тому +11

      @@Retaliatixn I choose Malta

    • @winstonchurchill4771
      @winstonchurchill4771 3 роки тому +23

      Dude...
      Uncool

    • @srpunkie6001
      @srpunkie6001 3 роки тому +7

      thats exactly how it works here xdd 50% hates 50%

  • @benikahn9022
    @benikahn9022 3 роки тому +2566

    So nationalist propaganda is pretty much : " imagine not having bread, this post was made by the franco gang."

  • @shaww2075
    @shaww2075 5 років тому +2795

    The Hoi4 Scoreboard:
    Franco - 25 481
    Jose Diaz - 2

    • @Gonboo
      @Gonboo 5 років тому +50

      Filip240ZG With an Abarth 500 its the other way for most of my hoi4 games, but I do tend to play as monarchy Germany.

    • @philippinecircularflag2023
      @philippinecircularflag2023 5 років тому +26

      Que voy a matar mas guiris....

    • @randomguy-tg7ok
      @randomguy-tg7ok 5 років тому +56

      The Nationalists *literally can't* choose the communist focus unless you've got some mods, m8.
      On the HOI4 note, with 1.7 the SCW is now back to the same odds it was in 1.4 - mostly a Nationalist win.

    • @I_like_big_bombs
      @I_like_big_bombs 5 років тому

      Jose Rivera 2000000000

    • @largestoflads9409
      @largestoflads9409 5 років тому +1

      Haha yes

  • @edwardaugustus9680
    @edwardaugustus9680 5 років тому +3927

    Communist Russia: Republicans you have to pay for our weapons.
    Fascist Italy: Nationalists we got you bro here have some guns.

    • @gumdeo
      @gumdeo 5 років тому +765

      Communists "redistributed" Spanish gold to Stalin.

    • @delarkaBCN
      @delarkaBCN 4 роки тому +25

      hendaya anyone ? :)

    • @delarkaBCN
      @delarkaBCN 4 роки тому +70

      @kinsmarts ooooh so bad. Nazis threw bombs with Spanish cadmium...or send the Division Azul to Russia... But lets just remember the facts that you prefer to forge your opinion xX

    • @delarkaBCN
      @delarkaBCN 4 роки тому +113

      @kinsmarts it always makes me laugh when francoists try to justify a 40 years military dictatorship by 3 years of war xD know that part, guys? Franco was the last fascist in Europe, by design of U.S.A and "the allies"....

    • @delarkaBCN
      @delarkaBCN 4 роки тому +78

      @Stephen Jenkins on Spain, Franco has much much more blood in his hands. Starting there, if you studied a bit of history, maybe you realized that was the same guy that killed democrats. Comunism win? comunism win the elections of 1936, so? please,know what you are talking about before you dare to say this to a spaniard, man

  • @ryantoth676
    @ryantoth676 3 роки тому +673

    Portugal just chilling there like "man that's some wild stuff going on over there, let's break out the popcorn"

    • @shahstormaggedoni5854
      @shahstormaggedoni5854 3 роки тому +158

      except, as mentioned, Salazar supported the Nationalists.

    • @MrSMITCHERS
      @MrSMITCHERS 3 роки тому +108

      @@shahstormaggedoni5854 Is that supposed to prevent them from eating popcorn?

    • @shahstormaggedoni5854
      @shahstormaggedoni5854 3 роки тому +67

      @@MrSMITCHERS I suppose not, touche

    • @megacynical37
      @megacynical37 3 роки тому +9

      "chilling" yeeeeeh

    • @JoboGamezzz
      @JoboGamezzz 2 роки тому +7

      Still much harder to eat popcorn

  • @aze94
    @aze94 4 роки тому +533

    I feel that you left out the sheer amount of politicking Franco engaged in to ensure that the Nationalists were unified.

    • @ReformedSooner24
      @ReformedSooner24 Рік тому +24

      Unsurprising. From everything I’ve seen this channel, though it may truly try to be objective, leans left/center-left in its interpretation of history. Franco is only seen in a positive light by monarchists or people on the political right or traditional side of the divide. So those who don’t fit that description won’t go out of their way to learn or share or even necessarily be able to consider some of the incredible feats they did.

    • @pavlogorianskyi1249
      @pavlogorianskyi1249 Рік тому +14

      @@ReformedSooner24 unifying far right factions to join the common cause in the war doesn’t seem like a positive thing to me. Deserves to be mentioned though.

    • @alnovnof1848
      @alnovnof1848 11 місяців тому +2

      Not only right the polítical center and some social democrats too.

    • @rickyGman11
      @rickyGman11 10 місяців тому +24

      @@pavlogorianskyi1249 The republican party being majority communists also doesn't seem like a positive thing to me and yet american leftists constantly praise them.

    • @seafoodspanker5288
      @seafoodspanker5288 4 місяці тому

      considering it an "incredible feat" is crazy
      @@ReformedSooner24

  • @Atwasoa
    @Atwasoa 5 років тому +1943

    Spain: ...
    Spain: I am gonna end this man's whole career

    • @jbd446
      @jbd446 5 років тому +24

      Best comment

    • @axelmarin1041
      @axelmarin1041 5 років тому +17

      that was fucking clever

    • @501stClonePilot
      @501stClonePilot 5 років тому +5

      Spanish Republic : I'm going to beat you up Spanish Nationalist

    • @mojewjewjew4420
      @mojewjewjew4420 5 років тому +14

      @@501stClonePilot I dont think history and reality agree there :)

    • @SwfanredLotr
      @SwfanredLotr 5 років тому +16

      Don't trust anyone, not even yourself

  • @PrehistoricLEGO
    @PrehistoricLEGO 5 років тому +3024

    “I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep, I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion” -Alexander the Great to his men

  • @mrwri
    @mrwri 3 роки тому +969

    1. Competent leadership
    2. Competent training
    3. Competent organization
    4. No Communist purges
    5. Foriegn aid

    • @holgernarrog962
      @holgernarrog962 3 роки тому +170

      A non socialist economy

    • @holgernarrog962
      @holgernarrog962 3 роки тому +30

      @Spartan 506 The Spanish poeple are still divided between followers of the socialists and such that prefer the conservative party.

    • @superleetmegapunx
      @superleetmegapunx 3 роки тому +105

      No Anarchist shitbags in the industrial backline causing trouble.

    • @mrwri
      @mrwri 3 роки тому +28

      @@superleetmegapunx also this

    • @Jim-Tuner
      @Jim-Tuner 3 роки тому +84

      1) The lack of any real centralized leadership. Either in the army or in the government.
      2) The decision at the start of the conflict to hand over the country's gold reserves to the Soviet Union.
      3) The unwillingness of many in the republican controlled areas to join the army and fight.
      4) The refusal of army units to obey orders. In particular orders that would lead to losses.
      5) A terrible ally (the Soviet Union) with an inconsistent policy toward Spain.
      6) A lack of ruthlessness on the part of the Spanish communists.
      7) The tendency of everyone in the government to be positioning themselves to take power after a victory rather than fighting for a victory.
      8) The weakness of the republic in the countryside and the republic's eventual inability to feed its own population.
      9) A total lack of any type of military strategy. A total focus on defensive warfare.
      10) The decision in 1939 to unconditionally surrender still holding a quarter of the country with a large army in the field rather than fight to the end. The general cowardliness of the republican elite who fled to save their own lives and didn't care one bit about any of their followers.

  • @pabloramirezvillalba5134
    @pabloramirezvillalba5134 3 роки тому +576

    The reasons spain went to war have been WAY too oversimplified. You massively oversimplified the 1934 revolts and skipped the series of assasinations that lead to the begining of the Civil War. Not only that, but Franco didn't lead the coupé de tat, he was one of the several leaders that organized themselves across the territory and only ever became the leader because the two guys that actually lead the nationalists died in airplane crashes (most likely organized by Franco himself)
    Good video overall, but details are important when looking at History

    • @davidfox2056
      @davidfox2056 2 роки тому +52

      he also completely forgot to mention the crucial italian intervention focusing more on germany, he didn't even talk about what happened on the sea.

    • @Parkourboy86
      @Parkourboy86 2 роки тому +7

      I think that this video is more focused on the war itself, not on the causes

    • @bromomento3950
      @bromomento3950 2 роки тому +2

      @Cthulhu Waifu antes era más unida por el hecho de no ser un estado centralizado. Aragon tenía sus leyes, navarra las suyas, castilla las suyas etc.

    • @bromomento3950
      @bromomento3950 2 роки тому +2

      @Cthulhu Waifu pues a todo se le llamaba españa en aquel entonces, aunque tenía diferentes reinos dentro de esta.

    • @matthewm5581
      @matthewm5581 2 роки тому +17

      It was not organized by Franco. Quit with your historical revisionism.

  • @SwfanredLotr
    @SwfanredLotr 5 років тому +1512

    A pity that you didn't mention more of the important detail that Franco was able to join both the Falangists and the Carlists into one party for a common cause and under his leadership by 1937.

    • @bogdanbogdanoff5164
      @bogdanbogdanoff5164 5 років тому +116

      Too bad he later choked the falangist movement which was growing popular enough that he felt threatened. And without a coherent ideology and with general indifference, it all went down the drain in 1975 .

    • @delarkaBCN
      @delarkaBCN 4 роки тому +25

      unir unir... se cargó a los principales líderes y se quedó con el movimiento. pero si, el video... le faltaban muuuuuuuchas cosas

    • @bogdanbogdanoff5164
      @bogdanbogdanoff5164 4 роки тому +69

      @Electro_blob Monarchy has proven throughout 19th and 20th centuries that it will always yield to the oligarchs and liberals when their private interests are threatened. Even worse: it will stay in place as a stooge, giving the populace a false sense that they still live in a traditional country.

    • @bogdanbogdanoff5164
      @bogdanbogdanoff5164 4 роки тому +22

      @Electro_blob I think that the best possible blueprint for a resilient community is going back to the roots - a tribe. A network of close knit-groups which live together, work together and intermarry, forming bonds to each other that are stronger than with any external actors or the State. Religious minority communities survived like this for thousands of years in hostile environment and even thrived, gained converts.

    • @bogdanbogdanoff5164
      @bogdanbogdanoff5164 4 роки тому +3

      If you want to be very ironic you can call it "communes", but the underlying idea differs imo

  • @vegabtw
    @vegabtw 5 років тому +985

    My grandfather was born in 1938 in Madrid, in the middle of the siege, I always tell him that was quite a bad timing

    • @itsblitz4437
      @itsblitz4437 5 років тому +126

      It's a miracle your grandfather survived. I mean babies and young children (ages 1-10) as well as pregnant women chances of survival are very slim.

    • @jackson0335
      @jackson0335 5 років тому +53

      Yeah in the 50s my grandpa served as a US soldier deployed in Spain for reconstruction and training soldiers. He told me about all the 'police' who carried submachine guns and had those flat hats and the parties thugs who tried to scare Americans out with rifles

    • @ajldj
      @ajldj 5 років тому +95

      Lol what bro my grandfather helped libarate Spain and fought with the nationlaists to defeat the Soviet influence spreading in europe

    • @endo4137
      @endo4137 5 років тому +7

      @Nadia BaigI feel the fel seeping from this comment

    • @rubemcorreia7988
      @rubemcorreia7988 5 років тому +49

      @Nadia Baig nationalists ain't nazi

  • @polygondwanaland8390
    @polygondwanaland8390 4 роки тому +532

    "the Civil War in Spain resulted from a period of inept leadership and increasing polarization in the country. As the financial gap widened between the wealthy and the middle class workers, both groups were increasingly drawn to extremist ideas and rhetoric"
    *nervous laughter*

    • @britts7564
      @britts7564 4 роки тому +10

      @Fabian Lopez-Toro sadly it is still early

    • @XX_MelobraacRedux
      @XX_MelobraacRedux 3 роки тому +3

      I don’t get it -.-

    • @polygondwanaland8390
      @polygondwanaland8390 3 роки тому +64

      @@XX_MelobraacRedux just replace "Spain" with "America" and look at today's political and economic climate

    • @XX_MelobraacRedux
      @XX_MelobraacRedux 3 роки тому +7

      @@polygondwanaland8390 :O That’s... actually really clever. Good one mate

    • @thetake-geopolitics4961
      @thetake-geopolitics4961 3 роки тому +6

      Chaz is basically what Catalonia did

  • @redacted3557
    @redacted3557 4 роки тому +927

    Nationalists: Ok guys, we gotta stick together.
    Republicans: Unity is a crucial par-
    Anarchists: We don't do that here.

    • @adolfgaming1761
      @adolfgaming1761 3 роки тому +35

      Laugh’s in today’s America

    • @strumps9549
      @strumps9549 3 роки тому +47

      @Irvin O based

    • @jaydengray4015
      @jaydengray4015 3 роки тому +62

      @Irvin O I don’t support franco but I would also be against the anarchists

    • @lana_del_Rei.neet-
      @lana_del_Rei.neet- 3 роки тому +49

      Long live to anarcho syndicalism! Death to the power!

    • @ZachWhoSaneGK
      @ZachWhoSaneGK 3 роки тому +45

      It was the Stalinists who ended up fracturing by the Leftist Coalition

  • @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un
    @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un 5 років тому +1049

    Nobody expects the Spanish Civil War

  • @Kardia_of_Rhodes
    @Kardia_of_Rhodes 5 років тому +3893

    Spanish Republican Officer: These guns, tanks, and planes are great and all, but what we really need is food!
    *Stalin sweats nervously*

    • @levvy3006
      @levvy3006 5 років тому +59

      The Communists in Spain didn't have food shortages. Also Stalin ended famine in Russia.

    • @nixxel2278
      @nixxel2278 5 років тому +328

      @@levvy3006,
      Have you watched the video? He mentions that the Nationalists captured the 2 most important agricultural zones, and that the people on the Republican side sometimes did not have enough food.

    • @sethsherlock9694
      @sethsherlock9694 5 років тому +506

      @@levvy3006 Ah yes, Stalin's glorious harvests of the 30s...Russians suddenly had food, and 5-10 million Ukrainians apparently took a permanent vacation leaving the Russians to get even more food. Stalin was a masterful diplomat.

    •  5 років тому +95

      @@levvy3006
      Why are you such a shameless liar? Stalin and the other Russians even used famine as a weapon, for example during the Holodomor Genocide.
      There were famines untill the 1950's in Russia.
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1946%E2%80%9347

    • @havoc3742
      @havoc3742 5 років тому +223

      @@levvy3006 Yes
      by killing 20 million of his own people

  • @notmenotme614
    @notmenotme614 3 роки тому +96

    Interesting fact... George Orwell. The author of the books 1984 and Animal Farm, left England to join the International Brigade and fought in the Spanish Civil War. One of his other books A Homage to Catalonia is an autobiography of his experiences. He talks how the Republicans and Nationalists were camped on opposing hill tops and neither could shoot each other. And he also talks about the Republicans fighting each other in Barcelona.

    • @dopaminedreams1122
      @dopaminedreams1122 Рік тому +18

      He also realised during his time there that all forms of authoritarianism were identical, and the issue wasn’t a left or right one but authoritarianism vs liberalism and democracy. He ended up hating the republicans

    • @notmenotme614
      @notmenotme614 Рік тому +9

      @@dopaminedreams1122 From what I remember, Orwell said there was more than one communist party in Spain. And the both hated each other. Like Stalinism hated Trotskyism or that famous scene from the A Life Of Brian film … The Peoples Front of Judaea versus the Judaean People’s Front

    • @burnout02urza
      @burnout02urza 9 місяців тому +6

      He was also shot through the throat, and barely survived.

    • @anakienpezzotta6264
      @anakienpezzotta6264 7 місяців тому

      Yeah,i know.I am reading myself 1984 and i've read animal farm

    • @American-Orthodox-Christian
      @American-Orthodox-Christian 6 місяців тому +1

      @@dopaminedreams1122The republicans were liberals but were joined by socialists, communists and anarchists

  • @bingbong7238
    @bingbong7238 3 роки тому +147

    When your name is Francisco Franco and France still doesn’t like you: : (

  • @SentryWill
    @SentryWill 5 років тому +2353

    The Nationalists won because Japan sent volunteers instead of doing the Marco Polo Bridge Incident focus.

    • @generalpopcorn6427
      @generalpopcorn6427 5 років тому +43

      That is just not true, LOL.

    • @PrussianRanger
      @PrussianRanger 5 років тому +326

      General Popcorn ya ever played HOI4?

    • @generalpopcorn6427
      @generalpopcorn6427 5 років тому +7

      @@PrussianRanger No.

    • @SentryWill
      @SentryWill 5 років тому +235

      @@generalpopcorn6427 Hearts of Iron IV is a WWII strategy game that uses a focus tree system to trigger events--click on an icon to spend 70 days completing a focus that will trigger events and stuff. The joke here is that Japan is too busy sending volunteers to Spain to go to war with China

    • @generalpopcorn6427
      @generalpopcorn6427 5 років тому +18

      @@SentryWill haha, busy indeed

  • @InspectHistory
    @InspectHistory 5 років тому +3354

    Paradox should sponsored this content, because it make me (or you too), want to play HOI4 again

  • @TheChuckfuc
    @TheChuckfuc 3 роки тому +193

    It's amazing how this war ended over 80 years ago. But emotions still run high when talking about it.

    • @eduardoalban6753
      @eduardoalban6753 3 роки тому +16

      And we are still fighting because we are idiots

    • @hibuddy1473
      @hibuddy1473 3 роки тому +56

      Brothers and sisters are naturale enemies, like Englishmen and Spaniards, or Frenchmen and Spaniards, or Spaniards and other Spaniards, damn Spaniards, they ruined Spain

    • @silveriorebelo8045
      @silveriorebelo8045 3 роки тому +28

      yeah, emotions run high due to the simple fact that leftists are lying bastards, totally distorting the facts - this video is a good example

    • @gort2279
      @gort2279 3 роки тому +41

      @@silveriorebelo8045 very true, 8:50 is totally disingenuous and serves the purpose of downplaying the atrocities committed by the Communists

    • @mannygreywolfsdb9936
      @mannygreywolfsdb9936 2 роки тому +27

      Tending to agree with you. How could this vid call killing of whole convents and parishes not systematic? The congregation that runs ours school here in our country lost 97 ( 39 priests, 26 Brothers, 22 clerics, 10 Sisters, and 2 would be Sisters). All told, there were about a total 6,000 priest, brothers, sisters, and seminarians killed. Not counting the Catholic faithful. And this vid just treated it like a sad footnote.

  • @alvaroherreravidal9714
    @alvaroherreravidal9714 Рік тому +15

    It cannot be forgotten that the Catholic Church was severely attacked. Temples were destroyed, priests, bishops and seminarians were assassinated. The nuns were raped and killed. With that, the Spanish people looked the other way when the reprisals came.

    • @asturiasceltic3183
      @asturiasceltic3183 Рік тому

      And children of Republic towns were allowed to be raped to death by enemies of the Church. It was elected by the people that there would be a separation of Church and state but the Catholic church wanted to rule Spain like it was the dark ages.

  • @tiarnacais9656
    @tiarnacais9656 5 років тому +839

    Fun fact a small brigade of Irish known as O'duffy's brigade fought for national spain but franco didnt want them as he already good troops as mentioned. The reason why they joined is as mentioned spain was very catholic and o'duffy was anti communist

    • @Motofanable
      @Motofanable 4 роки тому +19

      I was googling, he was ex-Sinn Féin, Fine Gael and then fascits LOL

    • @MrSomebodyyy
      @MrSomebodyyy 4 роки тому +136

      There were many foreign volunteers on the nationalist side too like the French Joanna D'arc brigade, the portuguese Viriatos and even some guys from Romania, but they are of course always neglected as they want to make the war into an "evil rich catholic fascists vs poor world's workers and peasents"

    • @murphyjack90
      @murphyjack90 4 роки тому +31

      The Irish volunteers were next to useless and didn't have any overall impact on the war.
      Im irish too BTW.

    • @tiarnacais9656
      @tiarnacais9656 4 роки тому +44

      @@murphyjack90 no worries im fully aware franco really wanted to get rid of them the entire time,thats what ya get for getting a bunch of galway boys to fight , they're more of singers than anything

    • @gaelm.2603
      @gaelm.2603 4 роки тому

      Vid Nikon my name is Gael 🗿

  • @clementkong8133
    @clementkong8133 4 роки тому +382

    @5:00 Franco didn’t lead the coup (at least initially). He only inherited that position. It was initially led by José Sanjurjo & later Emilio Mola but both died in a plane crash.

    • @jesusmena3505
      @jesusmena3505 3 роки тому +6

      I was lookin for this comment.

    • @prigual2901
      @prigual2901 3 роки тому +18

      Good point, also the one in comando above Franco died before he traveled from the Canary island to lead a portion of the army, all his adversaries died in strange circumstances

    • @marshalbali
      @marshalbali 3 роки тому +1

      He Said: co-lead

    • @the_tactician9858
      @the_tactician9858 3 роки тому +3

      @@prigual2901 That was lucky...

    • @vector7035
      @vector7035 3 роки тому +1

      Nice pfp

  • @staringgasmask
    @staringgasmask 3 роки тому +51

    You got some things wrong in the civil war. Franco wasn't always the leader of the uprising, Sanjurjo was in the beggining, in fact, Franco thought about uncovering their plans, but finally refused. Both Mola and Sanjurjo died in convenient plane crashes, leaving a clear path for Franco to take over. Also, the coup d'etat started when a head of a right-wing political party was murdered by leftist militias in response of an execution of a leftist police officer by far right militias. Another point you missed then is that communists and anarchists were already arming people for a revolution, so it wasn't due to political discontent, but to extremely intense social fight, what ultimately led to a coup d'etat in 1939

  • @jldldr3933
    @jldldr3933 4 роки тому +224

    Well it is fairly easy to win a war when the other side:
    - Does not formaly mobilize from the start.
    - Does not have a centralized chain of command.
    - Does not have a single ideology.

    • @OnettBoyXD
      @OnettBoyXD 3 роки тому +56

      Keep coping leftist trash.

    • @baguette7851
      @baguette7851 3 роки тому +107

      You forgot -wastes ammunition on statues of Jesus

    • @k0mentator507
      @k0mentator507 3 роки тому +9

      Astro keep hating rightist trash

    • @k0mentator507
      @k0mentator507 3 роки тому +2

      @Lord Kevolo ok right-winger

    • @adriancampos8640
      @adriancampos8640 3 роки тому +15

      You forgot -disbands the part of the army that sided with them.

  • @hazzmati
    @hazzmati 5 років тому +506

    Finally your character drawings are holding their rifles the correct way

  • @JuanMatteoReal
    @JuanMatteoReal 5 років тому +1167

    Spanish Civil War: The war that usually happens on HOI4 vanilla, Kaiserreich and Fuhrerreich.
    Spain: Am I a joke to the world?

  • @laserdiscisawesome1263
    @laserdiscisawesome1263 4 роки тому +110

    My Spanish teacher wrote his Thesis on this and he talked to a woman who is living in Mexico who was a refugee of the Spanish Civil War along with a son of a Partisan soldier and another refugee who live in Spain

    • @marcofernandezdearaozserra5125
      @marcofernandezdearaozserra5125 3 роки тому +5

      He basterd

    • @Jupiterssilhouette
      @Jupiterssilhouette 3 роки тому +8

      Bless him

    • @ricardolopez1228
      @ricardolopez1228 3 роки тому +1

      za dom spremni

    • @silveriorebelo8045
      @silveriorebelo8045 3 роки тому +22

      did they explain to you the very basic fact that their project was to install a communist regime in Spain?? these people are not heroes..., but minions trying to impose their views on everybody else

    • @diegodiego3164
      @diegodiego3164 3 роки тому +15

      @@silveriorebelo8045 Veterans of the civil war are very respected in México, and it was also the only nation to oficially give foreign aid and support to republican Spain.
      We consider them freedom fighters because they fought to keep Spain free of a tyrannical government, regardless of borders or nationality.

  • @schizoidboy
    @schizoidboy 3 роки тому +95

    One thing to remember was the anti-religious nature of the republican forces. It is one thing to target someone who is rich and owns land, but no religion is going to survive without people who aren't rich and land owning. If one side is going to have you executed just for praying then you're going to side with those who won't.

    • @scottanos9981
      @scottanos9981 2 роки тому +38

      It's absolutely no surprise, but often the godlessness of the republican forces is "overlooked" by modern narratives

    • @Cairo40000
      @Cairo40000 2 роки тому +10

      If remember correctly most communists are very anti religious

    • @dukeofirony58
      @dukeofirony58 2 роки тому +6

      I'm not at all excusing the actions of the Republicans, but the "godlessness" of the forces was in reaction to the brutal treatment of the Catholic Church against workers fighting for the fruits to their own labor. Again, nuns and priests alike and the innocents caught between crossfire didn't deserve what happened to them, but don't overlook what the church did just like you wouldn't overlook what the Republicans did. Keep that same energy.

    • @dopaminedreams1122
      @dopaminedreams1122 Рік тому

      @@dukeofirony58 ah, so because the church didn’t support an authoritarian, Inherently atheist idealogy, that had just massacred thousands of priests and burnt thousands of churches in Russia, they somehow had this coming? Are you aware of how disgustingly authoritarian you sound, imagine thinking it’s ok to religiously genocide an entire group because they didn’t support your stupid communist movement. This is why the nationalists won, what a gross reasoning for mass murder. Also we can all tell your defending their actions clown you literally went mask off with your hatred for Catholics or I guess anyone who isn’t a commie

    • @dukeofirony58
      @dukeofirony58 Рік тому +2

      @@dopaminedreams1122 in no way shape or form did I even mention hating Catholics, as religion is common among the working class and to hate religion is to alienate a lot of people. But okay, continue to have your shitfit. Just makes you look bad and me more reasonable.

  • @HeyItsJakegaming
    @HeyItsJakegaming 5 років тому +313

    when you finish the spanish civil war in hoi4 in 4 months with just 2 tank divisions and rommel

    • @Nicholas-nn5gx
      @Nicholas-nn5gx 5 років тому +25

      GucciSleddyBoi and the trait
      Panzer expert

    • @HeyItsJakegaming
      @HeyItsJakegaming 5 років тому +2

      Courean yea and a field Marshall too

    • @Zen-rw2fz
      @Zen-rw2fz 3 роки тому

      Yeah I turn germany communist and than win the war for the republicans

    • @latinoheateddieguerrero7644
      @latinoheateddieguerrero7644 2 роки тому

      When Nazi Germany sends Franco guns, planes and food and the isolationist United States refuses to send aid a democratically elected government in Europe.

  • @ihavetowait90daystochangem67
    @ihavetowait90daystochangem67 5 років тому +613

    “Well bob is dropping bombs like this is Guerniaca”
    -Bob Ross while fighting Picasso

    • @Goodtimer-rk5dl
      @Goodtimer-rk5dl 5 років тому +2

      ive seen u on ifunny

    • @cameronmaclean6860
      @cameronmaclean6860 5 років тому +9

      Hay man, how many days until you change the name?

    • @goodcookgaming5352
      @goodcookgaming5352 5 років тому +5

      twist you up like you a
      *Rubik's cubist*

    • @neo967
      @neo967 5 років тому +13

      @Atomic My technique i'm gonna make your mistress weep

    • @arnavbhagwat4232
      @arnavbhagwat4232 5 років тому +11

      Put her to sleep elbow drop her dreams I go deep.....and I keep it mellow like some Cadmium Yellow I'm a bright Like Titanium White kinda fellow

  • @lebroucke
    @lebroucke 3 роки тому +64

    I've been living in Spain for over 10 years and for most of that time I've worked teaching english to spanish kids. It still drives me crazy the fact they learn nothing about the civil war in school it's literally half a page in history books!!!!

    • @juschtn
      @juschtn 3 роки тому +14

      Well half of the older Generation was pro fascist... ask a Japanese after nanjing, same effect

    • @prigual2901
      @prigual2901 3 роки тому +4

      History is not told in Spain, very badly

    • @Frendlu
      @Frendlu 3 роки тому +14

      Entiende que la guerra, fue un desastre. En si, el problema no fue solamente la guerra civil, fue un problema de base, que vino desde que los Republicanos perdieron las elecciones en el 31, porque si, hubo unas elecciones para o bien seguir con la republica, o bien continuar siendo monárquicos. Perdió la opción republicana, pero como el rey, huyó, pues se tuvo de todas formas república. Esto y que la República NO admitía que un lado pudiese gobernar. Es decir, para la Republica, los únicos que podían de verdad gobernar eran los de Izquierda. Y cuando ganó la CEDA (Centro derecha) armaron todo un jaleo, llegando a levantarse en armas (siendo uno de ellos, la revolución de Asturias).
      La guerra civil, fue una consecuencia de una nefasta Republica, que estaba más ocupada creando enemigos (es decir, quemando iglesias, matando lideres de la oposición, invalidando la mitad de la opinión de la población) que arreglar los problemas heredas. Como esperabas que saliese....
      De todas formas, no estamos metidos al 100% en ello. Franco, es una estatua de marmol, y en el viaje de la vida, tienes que ir con lo fundamental, y la estatua de marmol de 50kilos, pues te lo tienes que dejar en casa.

    • @jancyraniak4739
      @jancyraniak4739 3 роки тому +1

      Don't worry, I've heard they're working on another one.

    • @dragoncongrelos
      @dragoncongrelos 3 роки тому +6

      The civil war was a major disaster for the country and unless Germany, we are not really known for learning from our mistakes, so the war is a taboo today. There's also a problem and is that there are still millions of people in Spain that consider totally legitimate to kill others for political differences and that defend a war that destroyed the country. Also there is a total lack of political literacy in the right wing and most right wingers think that being a democrat is being a communist

  • @kmm-212
    @kmm-212 3 роки тому +15

    >Monarchism
    >Extremist ideaology
    Bruh

    • @guillaumeroussel8633
      @guillaumeroussel8633 2 роки тому +1

      He simplified it but the monachists he was talking about were the carlists. You can look for some info and you'll understand why he categorised them under the far right.

  • @ihavetowait90daystochangem67
    @ihavetowait90daystochangem67 5 років тому +1951

    Franco: To show you the power of Nationalism, I cut this country in half!!!!

    • @6idangle
      @6idangle 5 років тому +66

      Scott Franco murder tens of thousands of people my guy, Spain was always poorer than the rest of Europe since their decline when the English destroyed their fleet you are looking at this through rise tinted glasses.

    • @rangergxi
      @rangergxi 5 років тому +52

      @Scott Franco literally brought Moorish soldiers to Asturias, a region of Spain that was never conquered by Muslim forces.

    • @fabianrios9659
      @fabianrios9659 5 років тому +14

      @Scott this is why no one loves you

    • @drk5orp-655
      @drk5orp-655 5 років тому +55

      @Scott Tell that to Britain my friend... The Queen who stays in the palace in Londondistan

    • @PrehistoricLEGO
      @PrehistoricLEGO 5 років тому +4

      That’s exactly what happened to the American Civil war, weird

  • @historywithhilbert146
    @historywithhilbert146 5 років тому +195

    Nice beard man! Also great video as always, good to work with you again on this one!

    • @offbrandmilk6085
      @offbrandmilk6085 5 років тому +2

      aye it's hilbert

    • @ElSayyidCampeador
      @ElSayyidCampeador 5 років тому

      love your content my man, but your voice over in this video is pretty dryly spoken, were you sick or tired or something?

    • @juschtn
      @juschtn 3 роки тому

      This video is in great parts misleading. He willingly presents the stalinists purges in Barcelona as Republicans vs. Anarchists (CNT). Read the reports of George Orwell or Willy Brandt.

    • @mateomadera9922
      @mateomadera9922 3 роки тому +3

      The video is well made, but history is very much wrong here for it gives an easy explanation to a much more complex part of our history specially on the prelude to the war. I understand it is a hard task to compress info to make it easy on the viewer but I repeat this video historically speakimg is not right. I am no defender of Franco but the uprising they did was far more complex than just loosing elections.

  • @RedDuke42
    @RedDuke42 3 роки тому +24

    I keep hearing this "the nationalists were the wealthy, the republicans were the poor" shtick which is simply not true. While the nationalists were supported by a large portion of the landed nobility and bourgeoisie, the bulk of the nationalists were Catholic peasants, workers and soldiers from all over the country. Half the country supported the nationalists, and I can tell you, half the country wasn't rich. They were simply poor, religious folk who were tired of seeing radical communists and anarchists burn their churches, rape nuns and slaughter people for the sake of being Catholic, with total impunity and indifference from the republican government.

    • @javiermesa-martinez8731
      @javiermesa-martinez8731 3 роки тому +1

      LOL. Not really. Although, yes most of the National side were poor Catholics. They were in a sense, just like modern poor republicans; useful idiots brainwashed into fighting against their own interests by an elite that didn’t give two shits about them.

    • @acdcforlive1
      @acdcforlive1 3 роки тому +10

      @@javiermesa-martinez8731 cope

    • @fifthcolumn388
      @fifthcolumn388 3 роки тому +5

      @Steven Chadwick yeah, the nationalists won and their lives improved. The communists just don’t want that to be real so they say it isn’t.

  • @andrewryanwasright
    @andrewryanwasright 2 роки тому +11

    @13:00 USSR: “communism is about brotherhood, sharing, putting people above the alter of profit!”
    Spanish Republicans: “so you will help us?”
    USSR: “yeah, but you will have to pay”

  • @marcello7781
    @marcello7781 5 років тому +63

    Moral of the story: be always organized and make good and powerful friends.

  • @yansuki4240
    @yansuki4240 5 років тому +210

    spanish civil war is a great source of military exp.

  • @chubbsause
    @chubbsause 2 роки тому +11

    it’s crazy how franco remained in power until 1975. 30 years after ww2 ended

  • @tabletopgeneralsde310
    @tabletopgeneralsde310 3 роки тому +2

    Great video with a lot of details, thanks for doing so much work on our modern history which still influences our days.

  • @brendanmurphy4034
    @brendanmurphy4034 5 років тому +195

    I think what is important to note is that in the previous election CEDA was the largest party but the president refused to allow them to form a government with them as the head , and when the Radical party prime minister was forced to resign, instead of President Zamora allowing CEDA to continue their term, new elections were called. This period itself is one of the most complex I have ever researched and in general it was a period where both sides and genuine fear of the other and have cause to fear the other.

    • @diegonatan6301
      @diegonatan6301 5 років тому +50

      True, but if some youtube historian says it in his/her videos they would be immediately labeled as nazi, it doesn't fit the narrative.

    • @mr.goldfish1530
      @mr.goldfish1530 5 років тому +8

      The largest party might not be bigger than the biggest coalition. Australia's recent election is a testament to that. The Labor party was the largest but the Liberal party was the leader of the largest coalition and won as a result.

    • @brendanmurphy4034
      @brendanmurphy4034 5 років тому +25

      Mr. Goldfish
      While that is true, it does not work for CEDA. It was a coalition of the right wing groups of Spain with Robles’s Accion Popular being the largest party within it. CEDA is similar to the popular front amongst Spanish and French leftists. Historian Stanley Payne accuses the republicans of running a selective democracy where they believed only those of their views could rule after the denial of CEDA’s right to form a government. At the same time, CEDA did not help its case as it authoritarian tendencies remained apparent, Robles never dissuaded fears of authoritarianism, and while most of the party were content with working within the system to enact change, the inclusion of falangists, monarchists, and carlists only made the left fear CEDA.

    • @brendanmurphy4034
      @brendanmurphy4034 5 років тому +13

      Mr. Goldfish
      Also in fairness, if I recall correctly l, Robles was fine with the decision, as I believe he wished not to stir up too much controversy and later on the government had to include CEDA in the cabinet with members controlling the key positions of defense, labor, and agriculture(if I remember correctly) which were all areas of reforms the Republicans wanted control of.

    • @mr.goldfish1530
      @mr.goldfish1530 5 років тому +1

      @@brendanmurphy4034 Thank you for this info. The discrepancy came from your use of the word "party."
      I'd be interested to know your source.

  • @JJ-su7re
    @JJ-su7re 4 роки тому +189

    Finland&Spain: *has a civil war*
    Germany: Now this looks like a job for me

    • @melvinmerkelhopper5752
      @melvinmerkelhopper5752 4 роки тому +26

      No one ever talks about the Finnish Civil War. Someone should make a video on it.

    • @JJ-su7re
      @JJ-su7re 4 роки тому

      @@melvinmerkelhopper5752 The Great War channel has made a few videos about it& Jazby too

    • @doom1894
      @doom1894 4 роки тому +20

      Finland had a Civil War why have I never Heard about this

    • @tuke3541
      @tuke3541 4 роки тому +2

      Eiku nii... Meillä oli siviilisotaki
      Kommaria silmien välii :)

    • @finlazzi9903
      @finlazzi9903 3 роки тому

      @@tuke3541 Ihan suomeksi sisällissota

  • @antwan1357
    @antwan1357 3 роки тому +1

    Thanks for covering this hard to find content

  • @Calbeck
    @Calbeck 3 роки тому +8

    @8:50 "not AS systemic" is hardly a significant differentiation

  • @napoleonibonaparte7198
    @napoleonibonaparte7198 5 років тому +193

    HOI4 needs a Spain Focus Tree

    • @jjgf8412
      @jjgf8412 4 роки тому +9

      Absolutely nuts how mexico had it first,i guess it difficult to make a Focus tree for 2 nations,1 of then appears from nowhere,but this must be done,as well the finish one, the turkish and the greek.

    • @blackpowderuser373
      @blackpowderuser373 4 роки тому +10

      And now both Nationalists and Republicans will each have their unique, full-fledged focus trees.
      forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/hoi4-dev-diary-%C2%A1viva-espa%C3%B1a-nationalist-spain-focus-tree.1249877/

    • @karwan6385
      @karwan6385 4 роки тому +5

      Now it has.

    • @Captain_FAIL
      @Captain_FAIL 4 роки тому +4

      Good news, now it has one

    • @doom1894
      @doom1894 4 роки тому +2

      R/ age like wine

  • @mythic898
    @mythic898 5 років тому +273

    Just naval transport your army before the civil war fires and get an easy victory before 1937

  • @KS-bo6tq
    @KS-bo6tq 3 роки тому +40

    I love how the anarchists look like they're from seattle

    • @RabidNemo
      @RabidNemo 3 роки тому +25

      as someone who lives in Seattle I can confirm this. And with the mess this country is in now I would rather President Trump become just like Franco at this point I don't even care anymore

    • @szymonulhurski1
      @szymonulhurski1 3 роки тому +1

      @@RabidNemo loooool, noo, prepare for us communism and beautiful feet of future president AOC after 2 term president Kamal a

    • @baconingbad
      @baconingbad 2 роки тому

      @@RabidNemo Oh my lol. Imagine thinking that Trump cares about anything other than his public image, money, prestige and being a dumbass on Twitter.

    • @baconingbad
      @baconingbad 2 роки тому

      @@szymonulhurski1 LOL! As if AOC actually cares about American people, ahahah! Also, what is it with many of AOC's fans and even some haters having foot fetish fantasies about her?

    • @bobbyjohnson1086
      @bobbyjohnson1086 2 роки тому

      @@szymonulhurski1 Delusional commie is delusional

  • @Markusctfldl
    @Markusctfldl 3 роки тому +9

    History according to Reddit. lol

  • @TWE_2000
    @TWE_2000 5 років тому +164

    Can you make a video about the Central American Crisis when major civil wars and communist revolutions erupted in various countries in Central America in the midst of the Cold War?

    • @MSPaintDaily
      @MSPaintDaily 5 років тому +5

      Yes I would love this

    • @88amona
      @88amona 5 років тому

      T WE 😎👍

    • @texasRoofDoctor
      @texasRoofDoctor 5 років тому +1

      @Z'Q marketing.

    • @nancybarnes29
      @nancybarnes29 4 роки тому

      shouldnt someone talk to otto skornzanie about this.

    • @celeridad6972
      @celeridad6972 4 роки тому +4

      @Z'Q because communism just means death and hunger, the other factions at least have something to offer

  • @prakashghumaliya2002
    @prakashghumaliya2002 3 роки тому +1

    Thank you for video sir

  • @blockbustervideo5860
    @blockbustervideo5860 4 роки тому +14

    The CNT part of spain in Catalonia was the best faction, to hell with the soviet puppets

    • @MarioGomez-kj5bc
      @MarioGomez-kj5bc 4 роки тому +1

      Blockbuster Video I agree but I support left unity overall

    • @nonautemrexchristus5637
      @nonautemrexchristus5637 3 роки тому +5

      @@MarioGomez-kj5bc left unity is a funny notion honestly, there isn't a chance of it happening any time soon I'm afraid

    • @DPryce
      @DPryce 3 роки тому +2

      @@MarioGomez-kj5bc Unity with stalinists is impossible. That said, the CNT is probably the worst example of historical anarchism, their leaders were basically Lenin-lite.

  • @severanfenrir4051
    @severanfenrir4051 4 роки тому +229

    Kind of cut out the parts of the miner strike being ordered to be put down by the republican government and the moves taken against the church and conservative peoples of Spain which helped push much of the military towards the coup.

    • @alepunto7404
      @alepunto7404 3 роки тому +83

      Also, he did not mention that the assassination of the leader of government oppositon by the leftist popular front was what triggered the civil war. Or that the socialist leader Indalecio Prieto brought a gun to the parliament and aimed with it to the right-wing representatives.

    • @adriancampos8640
      @adriancampos8640 3 роки тому +3

      The republican government at that time was a coalition between the CEDA and a republican centre right party which could do little to stop the CEDA's demands.

    • @jsotirakis
      @jsotirakis 3 роки тому +50

      Republican govt made no attempt to stop leftist violence. Also, people feared a Red Terror and what they knew had occurred in Russia after the Reds took power.

    • @carlosbraun5791
      @carlosbraun5791 3 роки тому

      @@adriancampos8640 no Adrián, en el 36 es el frente popular quien gobierna , el gobierno del ceda es anterior

    • @adriancampos8640
      @adriancampos8640 3 роки тому +2

      @@carlosbraun5791 Ya, estaba hablando de la revolución de Asturias en el 34 durante el gobierno de Lerroux.

  • @ricardoguanipa8275
    @ricardoguanipa8275 5 років тому +595

    Spanish Civil War TL:DR:
    Republicans: No pasaran!
    Nationalists: ya pasamos....

  • @solemnpenance8134
    @solemnpenance8134 3 роки тому +2

    I love this channel's art style

  • @jaggedplanet
    @jaggedplanet 2 роки тому +4

    Title should be "How the Nationalists saved Spain."

  • @MFvanBylandt
    @MFvanBylandt 5 років тому +76

    Nice Victoria 2 Pop counters to represent the social groups of Spain.

    • @genagena8439
      @genagena8439 3 роки тому

      I belive he was inspired by the pop images, then he made them handmade and no pixelated

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican 5 років тому +273

    Every time I play HOI4 that always happens. Sometimes Franco wins, other times Republican Spain wins. It’s a meme on Drew Durnil

    • @jasonfung1551
      @jasonfung1551 5 років тому +20

      Avery The Cuban-American the nationalists always win on mine

    • @Kurtownia
      @Kurtownia 5 років тому +24

      Last time I played, the Spanish civil war lasted long enough to spill into WW2. Nationalists joined the Axis, Republicans joined the Allies.

    • @HeyItsJakegaming
      @HeyItsJakegaming 5 років тому +19

      nationalists always win if you send troops as germany

    • @shinsenshogun900
      @shinsenshogun900 5 років тому +1

      Otherwise, D-Day on Spain

    • @jackson0335
      @jackson0335 5 років тому +11

      Lmaooo my Spain went communist once and formed a coalition with communist France and ended up 'winning' not really but kinda. Germany couldnt fight spain/France with Russia invading their eastern front and France stayed the same size but Spain wrecked Italy. The allies didn't do a whole lot but aided the communists

  • @jabrowski_
    @jabrowski_ 6 місяців тому

    This was so good. Ty

  • @ingore9021
    @ingore9021 3 роки тому +1

    Wow, this is a great video!

  • @GarkKahn
    @GarkKahn 5 років тому +66

    Spanish civil war: Tutorial Campaign
    WW2: Main Campaign

  • @itsblitz4437
    @itsblitz4437 5 років тому +71

    Your next historical topic could be either the Korean War of the 1950s which is also criminally underrated or the Iranian Revolution of 1979.

    • @leifewald5117
      @leifewald5117 Рік тому

      Easter Rising of 1916 would be great Or the Irish War of Independence (1919-1921) Or the Irish Civil War of 1922-1923

  • @TheNandomadrid88
    @TheNandomadrid88 2 роки тому

    Very nice video. Concise, to the point, well researched and neutral. The perfect introduction to the study of Spanish civil war!

  • @aspn-ender645
    @aspn-ender645 2 роки тому +2

    Well, two things:
    1- I really liked how the video is and how it's presented(so I used it as a base for my civil war project in history class)
    2-My father is from Guernica so, I've been there a lot of times and have visited the tree that survived the bombing and also if you go to Omago (a bakery there which in my opinion is the best one) you can see that the glass on the roof depicts the bombing

    • @claudiopereira5163
      @claudiopereira5163 2 роки тому +1

      El abuelo de una profesora mia fue el alcalde de guernica durante la guerra civil. Mi visabuelo fue herido en combate tambien en la guerra, una bala le cruzó todo un lado de la cabeza. Saludos desde Chile, donde la guerra civil aun se recuerda.

  • @DanksterPaws
    @DanksterPaws 5 років тому +77

    Title: How the Nationalists won in Spain
    Me: Maybe they used MagellanTV

  • @johnmacmillan3941
    @johnmacmillan3941 5 років тому +10

    how you forgott to mention the red terror murdering and doing atrocities

    • @dicklarson5253
      @dicklarson5253 5 років тому +2

      The red terror is nothing compared to fascist terror

    • @rafanana0077
      @rafanana0077 4 роки тому

      Not really. If the communist would won it would be pretty same of the Franco's regime

  • @shiibii6360
    @shiibii6360 4 роки тому +12

    While it is easy to talk about the mass bombing of civilians becoming a more common /well known German tactic , it seems very misleading. Every major power in WWII did that. The Allies, were if anything, far better at it, with much more in the way of air power to put towards it, and causing equal if not greater destruction.

    • @dopaminedreams1122
      @dopaminedreams1122 Рік тому

      This channel is insanely bias towards the allies in ww2, but in particular the soviets, he NEVER mentions the evil crap they did, he even blamed Finland for being invaded by the commies, because they were apparently “anti communist” like gee I wonder why

  • @lilyturner7774
    @lilyturner7774 3 роки тому +3

    Thank you! This was a really great introduction /summary. I tried watching 4 or 5 other short Spanish Civil War YT vides before yours but they were so hard to listen to & watch that I couldn't stay with them; the speech was too fast, very quick and 'loud' images and lettering, all a bit too much of a 'car-crash' experience, in my opinion! Thanks for making something different & digestible!

  • @Sergeant_Camacho
    @Sergeant_Camacho 5 років тому +90

    To be fair Largo Caballero (member of the Popular Front) also threatened to start a civil war if the CEDA won the elections...

    • @Hengilore
      @Hengilore 4 роки тому +2

      I heard that from ceda not from largo caballero

    • @adriancampos8640
      @adriancampos8640 3 роки тому +7

      @@Hengilore I heard that both sides would attempt to coup if they were to lose the elections. And they did.

    • @gworwell
      @gworwell 3 роки тому

      That's true. For sure.

    • @ghostduty8359
      @ghostduty8359 3 роки тому +7

      The civil war was inevitable im telling ya side or the other side wining elections would end on civil war anyways

  • @CrossHolder92
    @CrossHolder92 5 років тому +105

    Kind of ironic that the nationalists received more foreign support than the internationalists.

    • @gerardsotxoa
      @gerardsotxoa 5 років тому +34

      no, the republicans had way better means and support by the soviet union, They even had about half of the spanish regular army and about 3/4 of the navy when the war started. But the republicans were such a mess that they could not held their ground. The nationalist, a spectrum which included right wing republicans to fascist, monarchist, old regime monarchist and traditional catholics decided no name Franco as their sole military leader and dictator in october 1st of 1936. Many times the nationalist only had to push the republicans, then sit and wait for the internal skirmish.

    • @Enjoimaschine
      @Enjoimaschine 4 роки тому +7

      @@gerardsotxoa, forget not about the Communists purging the anarchists, international volunteers, unionists, clergymen, and non-communist republicans. Red Terror.
      "Viva la Muerte"

    • @VunderGuy
      @VunderGuy 4 роки тому +1

      No it isn't. During the Civil War, the South, often the more nationalistic of the 2, not without good reason, was more dependent on foreigners than the north's who's industrial economy was mostly self contained and had most the resources it needed at home already to grind the South in attrition even without having to resort to using foreigners in their army more often than the South, which they did.

    • @Jorgejtrdr
      @Jorgejtrdr 4 роки тому

      @@Enjoimaschine Viva la muerte es una frase de Millan-Astray un fascista no es una frase comunista que tiene que ver en lo que has dicho😂😂😅

    • @Enjoimaschine
      @Enjoimaschine 4 роки тому

      @@Jorgejtrdr soy fascista... Lol no. Es un solamente chiste. creo que la frase de Milán-Astray es muy tanta y oxímoronic pero divertido decirlo.
      "Long live death"

  • @brandonkrueger5763
    @brandonkrueger5763 3 роки тому +33

    Wow, no talk of the violence against the landowners and the clergy that caused the coup? Seriously revised history here.

    • @nihon2251
      @nihon2251 3 роки тому +3

      taking intro account that there were a total of 5900 clergies killed by the republicans and 250000 civilians by the nationalists it is easy to understand why he didn't mention it.

    • @brandonkrueger5763
      @brandonkrueger5763 3 роки тому +17

      @@nihon2251 what? That's a lot of priests. Comparing clergy to all encompassing "civilians" is not a comparison at all. You're talking casualties during a three year civil war, I'm talking murderous bands of "socialists and anarchists" that went around torching churches and killing priests before Franco even left Morocco. It seems you are confused, maybe go read a real history of the Spanish civil war and it's background.

    • @nihon2251
      @nihon2251 3 роки тому +2

      @@brandonkrueger5763 hey, I simply misread it. For your knowledge, such bands and assaults, though they happened, were by no means a common thing and the numbers of burned down churches or killed priests seem to be astoundingly inflated.

    • @szymonulhurski1
      @szymonulhurski1 3 роки тому

      Such a shame that not all clergy was purged. It w'd fair effect after leeching of Spanish citizens for 500 years. Religion is cancer

  • @jpggamer106
    @jpggamer106 3 роки тому +10

    *Spain watching everyone killing each other*
    *Spain* : hey someone wanna fight me?
    *Everyone* : No!
    *Spain* : Well, i can always fight myself
    *Does hara-kiri*

  • @curium9622
    @curium9622 5 років тому +141

    3:29 HOI4 Flashbacks
    12:25 War Thunder Flashbacks

  • @fireinthehole1986
    @fireinthehole1986 5 років тому +125

    Oooooh, you grew a beard! Nice!

    • @xxx6797
      @xxx6797 5 років тому +3

      Hope he can make some history beards 📼hehe

    • @billybobjoe7524
      @billybobjoe7524 5 років тому +2

      *Why people with the best moustaches suck as leaders*

    • @TheArmchairHistorian
      @TheArmchairHistorian  5 років тому +8

      @@natrone23 lmao

    • @natrone23
      @natrone23 5 років тому +2

      The Armchair Historian you are still young, I see a most glorious beard in your future.

  • @MbfLproductions
    @MbfLproductions 4 роки тому

    Cool Collab!

  • @SomeGuy-lr7ms
    @SomeGuy-lr7ms 4 роки тому +6

    You cant spell Spain without "pain"

  • @quedtion_marks_kirby_modding
    @quedtion_marks_kirby_modding 5 років тому +326

    The nationalist won because they had the better flag.

    • @gemznyan9263
      @gemznyan9263 4 роки тому +59

      And they have food too.

    • @nihon2251
      @nihon2251 4 роки тому +9

      Nah mate, the eagle is too fat, the republican one looks cooler

    • @krzys_03karewski86
      @krzys_03karewski86 4 роки тому +10

      Because Franco united anti-republicans, on the other hand anarchists and trotskyist in the late years of war were supressed by stalinists. So there was a lot of infighting on the republican side.

    • @pilsudski36
      @pilsudski36 4 роки тому +4

      And a better Anthem, and some great marches, like Prietas las Filas.

    • @sus4644
      @sus4644 3 роки тому

      nah the purple on the republican flag hit different.

  • @gre3nishsinx0Rgold4
    @gre3nishsinx0Rgold4 5 років тому +23

    I love this.. also Hilbert sounds like he just woke up or was still sleepy when he was on his bit of the video.

  • @carjac820
    @carjac820 3 роки тому +6

    Spain: Civil war
    Portugal: *grabs popcorn*

  • @lucario2188
    @lucario2188 2 роки тому +5

    So in short the Nationalist had better leadership.

    • @asturiasceltic3183
      @asturiasceltic3183 2 роки тому

      Think about it.. These are common working people (sheep herders, coal miners, fisherman, laborers ect) going up against the General Army of Spain. You see it in the uniforms and weapons. The Nationalists had manufactured tailored uniforms, the Second Republic mainly had a white button collar shirt and a beret.

    • @za.monolit
      @za.monolit Рік тому +6

      @@asturiasceltic3183 Cry about it, we won

    • @asturiasceltic3183
      @asturiasceltic3183 Рік тому

      монолит, no one was asking nor cares about your stinkingfamily

  • @HoH
    @HoH 5 років тому +8

    Great video as always - and congratulations with 400k subscribers!

  • @kylemcmullan2831
    @kylemcmullan2831 5 років тому +21

    Excellent video as always. It's been great watching this channel grow.

  • @codycigar6542
    @codycigar6542 2 роки тому

    We need another video about the Spanish Civil War. Would love to see more in-depth analysis of battles during it.

  • @Angel_Gomez
    @Angel_Gomez 3 роки тому +4

    My two grandparents suffered the War:
    - One was sixteen, so he fought for the Republic since 1936 till the surrender of Madrid in 1939.
    - The other one was born in the Barrio de las Delicias in Madrid in 1937.
    The sad part is that politicians are using the Civil War as a way for obtaining votes. Using the suffering and deaths of a War between brothers for seats in the Parliament. It's just sad.

  • @williamshortfilm5818
    @williamshortfilm5818 5 років тому +5

    Really good work Griffin. The animation gets better and better !

  • @stepanotrisal1512
    @stepanotrisal1512 5 років тому +108

    Somebody probably told it already but for more informations about May Days, inner working of Republicans and volunteers and war as a whole, read the book Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell.
    It's notable that other famous British writer, J. R. R. Tolkien was outspoken supporter of Nationalist because of his Catholic faith and Republican murders of Catholic clergy.

  • @napoleonibonaparte7198
    @napoleonibonaparte7198 3 роки тому +1

    Hearing Hunkbert's voice is so soothing. Change my mind.

  • @Gerbs1913
    @Gerbs1913 4 роки тому +5

    Portugal: *sips port wine*

  • @carlosdelsol76
    @carlosdelsol76 5 років тому +93

    Franco won because he wore a lit high tier bear 🐻 pelt which gave him magical military powers.

    • @danshakuimo
      @danshakuimo 2 роки тому +3

      Franco's Premium Bear Pelt
      Rarity: Legendary
      +50 Troop Discipline
      +30 Diplomacy
      +40 Logistics
      -80% Cold Damage
      -30% Damage taken from Communist enemies
      -40% Damage taken from Socialist enemies
      -50% Damage taken from Anarchist enemies
      Aura Effect: Grants +30% Morale to all Catholic allies
      Special Ability: German Airstrike - Calls the Luftwaffe for a devastating bombing run - 2 day cooldown

    • @carlosdelsol76
      @carlosdelsol76 2 роки тому

      @@danshakuimo hahahahahahahah

  • @axelandersson6314
    @axelandersson6314 5 років тому +64

    The T-26 was a soviet vehicle, not a German one.

    • @ryanpyro1399
      @ryanpyro1399 5 років тому +1

      Yes He has made a few faux pas. No biggie.
      But it is about the Spanish civil war. Like most info about it pretty much, been re-released story been shorted, digitally remastered, with scenes removed while other parts over extended highlighted.
      Its like a Lucas production. Hit n miss but that's why it's one of the most intriguing parts of history. As its been revised more than the bible.

    • @robosoldier11
      @robosoldier11 5 років тому +4

      Ye kinda made my head scratch why the nationalists looked to be deployed alongside them. If anything it be a compilation of L3s from Italy and panzer 2s from Germany.

    • @JdCR_927
      @JdCR_927 5 років тому +2

      Nationalist did capture and use some T-26's

    • @axelandersson6314
      @axelandersson6314 5 років тому

      Blah b Nope, it was a legally purchased british export design with its awful gun mounting of 2 mg turrets were exchanged for a single superior turret with a 45 millimetre cannon.

    • @axelandersson6314
      @axelandersson6314 5 років тому

      Blah b I'm just shocked that I, as a Swede, was just called a Russabu by some idio-bjectively wrong person* on the internet.

  • @billdunkelberger6647
    @billdunkelberger6647 2 роки тому

    Great videos Griffith

  • @SMarie-zk9oj
    @SMarie-zk9oj 2 роки тому +10

    My favorite thing about Franco was that he wasn’t your usual nationalist he helped his people didn’t do the horrible war crimes most authoritarian nations did at the time Spain really was a a good nationalist nation during peace times off course

    • @pancytryna9378
      @pancytryna9378 2 роки тому +2

      He did commit crimes against the Spanish people tho

    • @SMarie-zk9oj
      @SMarie-zk9oj 2 роки тому

      @@pancytryna9378 true thanks for correcting me but what i meant is that they just were not on the same level as other nationalist nations but again thanks for correcting me

  • @PacoFranco-ChanUwU
    @PacoFranco-ChanUwU 5 років тому +106

    What if we kissed in the CNT barricade?? 😳😳😩😩😳😩

    • @abandonedchannel281
      @abandonedchannel281 5 років тому +17

      Nuts in Anarchism

    • @delarkaBCN
      @delarkaBCN 4 роки тому +5

      what if we desecrate your tumb built by republican war prisioners?

    • @PacoFranco-ChanUwU
      @PacoFranco-ChanUwU 4 роки тому +13

      @@delarkaBCN it was not made for me but it makes me horny anyway 😌😣😣😌😳😳😳😳

    • @gaelm.2603
      @gaelm.2603 4 роки тому +2

      What if we did stuff in the treblinka????😳😩☺️😉😳

    • @MarioGomez-kj5bc
      @MarioGomez-kj5bc 4 роки тому

      What a great comment

  • @drk5orp-655
    @drk5orp-655 5 років тому +28

    You forgot when the popular front killed the leader of the opossition and the political violence got to the streets

  • @SpindleFloor
    @SpindleFloor 8 місяців тому +10

    The last war good guys won.

  • @EnriqueRjr2000
    @EnriqueRjr2000 Рік тому +1

    my grandpa was born in the basement of a restaurant in madrid that the area around was being heavily shelled. he recalls memory of seeing a man riding a bike whose head was soon cut off by exploded metal and the bike still was going onneven though the rider was killed.