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> in order to have a prolonged civil war there are two equally powered sides needed, both with equal social support You might want to do a bit of reading: htt
by twic 7y ago
> in order to have a prolonged civil war there are two equally powered sides needed, both with equal social support
You might want to do a bit of reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_involvement_in_the_Spanish_Civil_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_involvement_in_the_Span...
- evgen 7y agoIf you want to get into the weeds on this, try to be balanced (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NKVD#Spanish_Civil_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NKVD#Spanish_Civil_War) The Spanish Civil War soon became more about blue-on-blue infighting between traditional leftists and straight-up Stalinist agents. Orwell did not flee Spain because of the Nationalists closing in, he was being hunted by soviet agents.
- nudpiedo 7y agoAlso the soviet union sent people and machinery to the republicans, and they were significantly more powerful at the time (ultimately Russia also defeated Germany, but that is now an unfair statement). I also read several books on the topic, my whole point it that this article is unfair and biased.