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Always interesting to consider the high amount of foreign volunteers and foreign legions sent there by states (including the USSR Italy and Germany) that all participated in the civil war. Kind of gives you a feeling that this was a 20th century European proxy war.
My portuguese great grandfather worked in france as a mechanic at that time was caught in middle of the conflict as he was passing spain and got arrested by the spanish military , good thing is that it was close to Portugal and after some days in military custody some spanish guards let him go in the middle of the night ,"vaya portugues , rapido rapido " and he manage to cross the border back to Portugal 😂
Pissing off Portugal would've been a MAJOR mistake for either side, with Spain divided like that Portugal could've easily swooped in and turned the war in either direction it wished (the fact they supported Franco can be seen as one of the main reasons for early Fracoist success), so he was never really in any danger they were always going to have to let him go, this is not just modern day Portugal, it was colonial Portugal, that could've easily pulled up like a million soldiers like it was nothing from it's African colonies, not a nation you'd want to anger
1 million definetly not, but africans were a major part of the colonial garrisons and they activelly fougth in the colonial wars against the rebels@@New_frisk
@@New_frisk Not 1 million africans, but 1 million soldiers including reserves from there, they'd do it for the same reason they did during the colonial war, they'd just be conscripted same as the whites. They were technically Portuguese nationals themselves in those days, there were no independent nations that exist today in those regions. So there wasn't the same distinction that there might be now about the "Portuguese" being a separate people that you're going to "help" you're just being conscripted by your nation same as if Angola called you up today.
My grandparents were born in 1933 and 1936 in Murcia. Their lives where marked by this event, there was a lot of hunger everywhere and had to do anything to survive. I'm lucky to still have them and be able to ask them about stories and the way of living at that time, its gives me much perspective into todays life, and how people have became increasingly weaker
Una guerra que fue promovida por una parte de ingleses y, por otra el comunismo, utilizando a sus felones, que por desgracia hoy en día también los hay.
It’s would be more usefull to male a video about the chekas (campos de concentracion de la TITANIA STALINISTA QIE FUE LA II Republica. DE COMO CERRARON EL SENADO, DE COMO SE CERRARON TODOS LOS MEDIOS DE COMUNICACION; -Com Franco aunqie con cesura, si se podia ser propietario privado de medios de comumicacion-. DE COMO NO HABIA DERECHO EN BUENA PARTE A LA PROPIEDAD PRIVADA O A LA BIDA…. ETC ETC YA TRAJO LA MISERIA EL SOCIALISMO DURANTE LA MISMA
There are a few minor incorrections, but generally a good work. Incorrections include: - Not placing the italians at the helm of the Malaga Ofensive in early 1937, neither at the fall of Bilbao in mid'37. - Not representing the Republican offensive at Teruel in late 1937 (which actually managed to seize the city, albeit shortly) - Not representing the Nationalist advance towards Valencia in the spring of 1938, which was stopped around Segorbe in what became the last republican victory of the war - Leaving the Germans idle around Seville, when the Legion Condor was in fact moving around constantly in support of the Nationalists in most of the relevant battles of the war. But good work anyway. Your video is well worth watching.
Two of my great-grandfathers fought in this war. One in each side. Many common soldiers didn't fight in the side they wanted (they didn't even want to fight), but they fought in the side that came first to their village and recruited them; they had no other choice, or they would have been shot right there. One of my great-grandfathers died in a battle in Galicia, he was one of those numbers that rise so fast in the first years of the war. The other had better luck, after serving long time in such a horror, he could desert during the battle of Ebro, crossing the river swimming and escaping to France. He was "enslaved" by the French, forced to work in the mines, until he could come back home after the war. In his absence, my great-grandmother, with her mother and sisters, survived by smuggling of goods hidden in fake-bellies (they pretended to be pregnant). Those were hard times for all Spanish society. Not to mention all the crimes and mass murders of civilians commited by both sides. It was not a war of good vs. bad, or right vs. wrong. It was a bloody disaster for our society, that all people had to suffer, all families were touched by it, and we are still bleeding from it, since many people even in Spain only focus on the crimes of "the other side", instead of acknowledging the history as shameful as it was in its full.
Yes but Franco and the other we in fact generals so they treason Spain. They received help from Hitler and and Mussolini then reasoned them. Then they said fighting a crusade... Let African provinces in hands of the neighbours... Republic was legitimate, the fascist only were lucky during cold war period
@@alejandrorivera1812A yes, those facts are true, but they are not the whole story. Despite the republican government was "legitimate", that doesn't mean it was good. The years before the war were full of injustice, State terrorism, burning of churches, political assassinations, and many other abuses of power that resulted in many people being unfairly treated, tortured or even murdered. The Spanish second republic is often (and sadly) glorified as if it was a great period, when it was far from just ok. Half of the country did not went into rebellion because they were evil fascists that wanted to destroy the country: the fascists, as in any country were they reached power, fed on the social crisis that the State was facing, bringing hope to desperate people who fell into the fascist populism because they wanted change to end the madness they lived in. Of course none of that justifies the horrible crimes comited by Franco and his fascist dictatorship; but in the same way, the fact that the "legitimate" republican goverment was destroyed by the fascists does not erase all the crimes that the republic had commited against the population before (and during) the war.
@@DeathMoonKnight wow, rare to see someone on the internet who actually has a well-informed and nuanced take that takes into account all sides and biases of the historical area he is talking about. Quite glad to see that people like you are still around. As always history is never black and white; it's always shades of grey.
@@fierylightning3422 thanks, it's indeed quite difficult to stay objective and seek the truth in our polarized society. Sadly, Spain is still deeply divided, and our politics are taken by populism full of hate for "the others". I don't know if we will ever be able to overcome such divisions. The way people tend to blindly "choose one team" in wars as if they were just football games, even with current conflicts (e.g. Israel vs. Palestine), is sick. Nothing good will ever come from believing that in wars one side is full of evil people and the other is full of saints who always do the right things.
@@DeathMoonKnight as a Spaniard i like your take, Calvo Sotelo was the guy you were thinking i guess, a right wing politician who was taken from his house by republican cops and murdered, by many this is considered the break point of peace in Spain and the main reason the african military raise against the republic
Colours are inverted, because in the right side were Socialist and comunist must go on red, and the enemies at the left were the "blue army" (el ejército azul). And it's missing the help of Stalin to the comunists... But rest of things are correct.
@@LancerIHR Even your comment is wrong. The Republican Government was killing population and christians. The army defend them from communist, socialists and anarchists. Learn history please. There are a lot of myth about it
It looks very very strange that you used blue for the republicans and red for the nationals, as both sides identified themselves and the others with the exact opposite (red=republican and blue=national)
@@user-vq6jc8uh6p It is more of a NATO thing, blue is used for friendly and red for enemy. It isn't really to do with US politics the colours of which are relatively recent.
He knows nothing about Spain (and its Civil War). For example, the total amount of casualties was about 540.000 according to the demographic data available in wich most of the historians from both sides agree.
Canción popular española sobre la guerra civil, basada en una historia real: Caminando por el bosque En el suelo vi que había Una carta ensangrentada De cuarenta años hacia Era de un paracaidista De la octava compañía Que a su madre le escribía Y la carta así decía Madre anoche en las trincheras Entre el fuego y la metralla Vía al enemigo correr La noche estaba cerrada Apunte con mi fusil Al tiempo que disparaba Y una luz que iluminó El rostro que yo mataba Era mi amigo José Compañero de la escuela Con quien tanto yo jugué A soldados y a trincheras Ahora el juego era verdad Y a mi amigo ya lo entierran Madre yo quiero morir Ya estoy harto de esta guerra Madre si vuelvo a escribir Tal vez sea desde el cielo Donde encontrare a José Y jugaremos de nuevo Si mi sangre fuera tinta Y mi corazón tintero Con las sangre de mis venas Te escribiría: Te quiero Carta original: Querida madre, no sé como empezar esta carta pero te escribo con mi rostro bañado en lagrimas, caen por la soledad, tristeza, dolor y sufrimiento que vivo día tras día aquí. Lo primero que tengo que decirte es Te Quiero y aunque no lo demuestre con frecuencia, Te quiero con locura, para mi eres la persona más importante, siempre has estado ahí apoyándome y protegiéndome, haces que las cosas malas parezcan buenas, tus consejos están llenos de sabiduría y siempre me has llevado por el buen camino. Ahora ya soy mayor de edad, tengo dieciocho años, puedo afrontar yo solo las cosas... pero la verdad es que no puedo madre... Perdóname, os hecho mucho de menos, ¡no quiero estar aquí! Se que desde casa junto a padre y mis hermanos os sentís orgullos de mi, podéis presumir de tener un hijo en el frente. Lo siento por ser un cobarde madre pero tengo miedo, más del que puedo aguantar. No entiendo esta guerra, no se cual es el bando bueno, no sé por qué lucho, no entiendo nada de lo que pasa, solo acato ordenes. El incesante sonido de los fusiles se mezclan con los gritos y llantos de la gente torturando mis oídos día y noche, vivo con una melodía continua de ametralladoras y lluvias constantes de bombarderos. Ya no hablo ni pienso, porque otros lo hacen por mi, solo me hace falta una frase para salir del paso aquí, “a la orden”. Dicen que el amor es suficiente para seguir adelante, que hay que luchar por nuestras familias, demostrar lo que valemos, pero ya no tengo el valor para estar en la batalla, las piernas me tiemblan sin parar, no duermo, me cuesta respirar, lloro a escondidas porque no puedo demostrar lo que siento delante de mis compañeros, se fuerte y lucha me repito constantemente, pero las palabras se pierden en mi mente como las vidas de la gente que esta a mi alrededor, soy la marioneta de un tirano titiritero. A noche nos lanzaron en paracaídas a una zona nueva de batalla, dicen que somos la mejor compañía jamás vista, la fuerza de los ochos nos llaman. La octava compañía paracaidista, siempre al frente luchando por su patria, por los ideales de un estado, viviendo el conflicto con lealtad y valor. Somos soldados valerosos, abrimos brechas en las filas enemigas, causamos bajas en ellos como si fueran animales y no tenemos remordimientos, pero todo es mentira pura mentira, solo fachada, una apariencia; los rostros de la gente demuestran lo contrario, sus caras se han tronado sombrías y pálidas, muestran el temor, horror y desamparo que se vive aquí, pero como nos repiten una y otra vez, “¡soldados o ellos o ustedes!” Madre para lo que realmente te escribo es para contarte lo que me ocurrió anoche. Me encontraba en el campo de batalla resguardándome del fuego cruzado y la metralla. Como siempre acataba ordenes, teníamos que superar una cota para llegar hasta un punto estratégico que nos serviría de base, para ello era necesario abatir al contrario con toda nuestra fuerza, no escatimamos en munición, ni violencia... Madre anoche en las trincheras vía al enemigo correr hacia mi, le apunte con mi fusil y sin darle tiempo a reaccionar le dispare; algo raro paso en ese momento, ya había matado a más gente antes pero en aquel chicho había algo distinto, una luz ilumino su rostro, la cara del enemigo al que asesinaba… madre era mi amigo José, mi compañero de la escuela, nuestro vecino, el hijo de Francisca, mi mejor amigo, con quien tanto yo jugué a soldados y a trincheras. Madre ahora el juego es verdad, no hay risas, solo oscuridad y llantos, no volveremos a jugar jamás, ¡lo están enterrando! Lo siento muchísimo, te pido perdón madre pero ya no aguanto mas aquí, me quiero morir, estoy harto de esta guerra, ¡no se dan cuenta que no va a ganar nadie joder! Tal vez te vuelva a escribir, pero la próxima que lo haga será desde el cielo, donde encontrare a José y jugaremos de nuevo. Madre ten por seguro que si mi sangre fuera tinta y mi corazón tintero, con la sangre de mi venas, te escribiría un “TE QUIERO”. Hasta siempre.
Bueno, esa supuesta carta tiene un poco de mito, no se sabe muy bien la canción de donde vino, probablemente de campamentos de boy scouts o religiosos de los años 60/70s. Le ocurre como a la famosa carta del jefe Siux, demasiado buena, para ser verdad, en realidad fue creada en los años 60s con el movimiento hippie, pero si basada en una carta que a su vez se hizo 30 años después de un discurso del jefe Seattle en 1854. Y aun más, la version que suele conocerse en internet, es de los años 80s..
@@ferra098 Quien, Andrew Blanchtt Kensington periodista del NY Times? He buscado por internet en ingles, con nombres similares, blanchett kessington,... y NADA.
@@TheRetroGuy83 Jajaj no sé, me acordé de la canción, la busqué y la copié. Hará diez años que no le doy vueltas al tema más allá de cuando la tarareo. Pero en su momento te garantizo que leí algún artículo que explicaba de qué pueblo era y todo. Si me pides enlace... Pues no lo tengo. Que me la hayan colado? Pues a saber
The war was so gruesome Spain decided to stay out of the 2nd World War. WW2 would have went sideways if Spain joined the Axis. If they captured Gibraltar it would have been a devastating blow for the British. They would not have been able to resupply their troops in North Africa.
My great grandfather avoided this war when he permanently moved to El Salvador in the 1890's. What a smart move. My mother moved to USA in 1974 and avoided the salvadorean civil war (1979-1982) another smart move.
ye ik there were 1 million deaths but cuz of the economic crisis after and franco dictator ship the war caused 2.5 million casualtys 1 mllion of the war 400k from execution after war and 1.2 million cuz slavery or starve
The speech in 1:06 was not made in 1936 but in 1938, after the battle of the Ebro, when Republican defeat was inevitable. The video (apart from the little extract you played) is lost, but we still have all the voice recording of that speech, which Azaña made with no paper or notes. It is called Paz, Piedad y Perdón (Peace, Mercy and Forgiveness) and is a message about reconciliation when the war ends.
I think that the interpretation on this video is very good, specifically considering the units shown with flags, I thought it was pretty cool seeing the Italian troops pouring in. Thank you for the wonderful productions. Edit: This is my first TH-cam Post with over 100 likes so thank you all!
@@peterthesneakybastar Most spaniards were either pro-republican or indifferent a decade ago. Then the left made a law banning apology for Franco and, of course, provoked a surge of support for francoism, mostly to piss off the current leftist goverment. You know how it works, ban something and it will inmediately become trendy.
@@aksmex2576You're crazy we wanted bread, water and light after the war. We were busy making babies and have almost no people to make experiment with ...
It wasn't. Casualties include wounded, captured, etc... Note in the video how in the last days, when the Republic collapses, the number of republican casualties goes up by exactly the same amount of republican troops left before the collapse. The Nationalist casualties figure is less affected by surrendered troops, and if you apply the general principle of 20% dead 80% wounded, then you get close to the figures in wikipedia, which only account for dead soldiers. Then you have to add up the people murdered by rearguard repression in both sides, which should amount to aproximately 60k executions by the republicans and 150k by the nationalists (including post-war executions). If you add civilian deaths from famine, bombings, etc... you will get a final death toll of about half a million people.
I have stories of family being forced to fight in both fronts. Of people hidong in the forest to avoid being recluted, of ship captains emulating their deaths to avoid capture... History must be learned in order to avoid repeating it. Let it be a lesson
@@moondiegordr A lot of the warfare methods used by the axis were tested in there, and had the republic won spain would have been another battlefield during operation barbarossa
@@ivanvladimir0435 Right. Picasso's painting of "Gernika" was de representation of the bombing over Guernica by the German nazi and Italian fascist aviation
JRR Tolkien supported the Nationalists in this war, interestingly enough. He was an admirer of Roy Campbell, who he compared to Aragorn (then named Trotter) in a letter. Campbell was a British fascist who fought in Malaga against the Republican General Villalba. According to Tolkien he recovered a religious artifact that the general had looted.
Tolkien abhorred of totalitarianism, the Soviet one even more than the nazi. Most people believe the nationalists were a bunch of bad guys who toppled a proper democratic regime, like the French Republic or the UK. But it was very far from that. The Communists and anarchists and such wanted a proletarian revolution (they failed the coup in 34). The nationalist coup of 36 was bound to happen. Also, the spanish fascists acquired ten times the influence and importance at the onset. They were few before the war. Later Franco got them in his pocket, for he was no fascist, but the staunchest “Franquista” of them all.
War is the worst aspect of human nature, but even more so are civil wars that destroy coexistence and leave an incurable social fracture for a long time.
Sí, es muy comentado el hecho de cómo Franco fue asegurando los territorios ganados en vez de avanzar terreno. Hay que tener en cuenta que detrás de las filas, en los propios territorios ganados seguían pasando cosas feas para evitar nuevos alzamientos. Por otra parte, el inicio fue repentino por el crudo contexto de la época, de hecho, en muchos cuarteles alzados se escuchaba el himno de la República, aunque al final todos los alzados se adscribieron al futuro dictador Franco. Volviendo al tema de la lentitud, muchos de los esfuerzos de la guerra se centran en Asturias (Norte) y Cataluña (Noreste), dos frentes muy complicados y que, una vez resueltos, era fácil prever que los demás se rendirían.
Con franco ocurría 20 veces menos violaciones q ahora y la natalidad era la de un país con futuro , ahora es la de un país al borde de desaparecer para siempre.
En mi opinión el mayor lastre que tiene España fue la guerra civil que todavía nos divide. No hay nada que una más un país que una guerra contra un enemigo externo, mientras en Europa lo hicieron aquí luchamos entre nosotros.
@@sombra3939 Mira lo q te digo q yo creo q la guerra civil fuel a gota q colmó el vaso eh... Para mi todo esto empezó en el 1700 con la guerra de sucesión, donde, por primera vez, se ejerció represión hacía una de las coronas, provocando mal estar. De ahí solo hemos ido cuesta abajo, en mi opinión.
I'm spanish and watching this hurted so much. So many dead people. So many kids forced to fight. It's absurd. The worst thing, we learnt NOTHING from all those dead. We are still divided like we were in the past. No politician has come to unite Spain, they always want us divided to create hate and gain more votes. Fuck all of them, Spain doesn't deserve this. I just dream for a better tomorrow on my country, because I love it so much, yet it's so hard to not leave the country for a better place in Europe.
Franco saved you from communism dude… In my country the communists won and we suffered 60 years of hell. They annihilated the intellectuals and clergy and the business culture so totally that it’s taken us 30 years to recover maybe 10% of what we lost. They even blow up ancient churches! Imagine if your country had been subjected to that horror? The tombs of your kids and churches blown up. The Spanish culture being systematically taken apart piece by piece so all you can do is quote Marx or Lenin. You guys were so fucking lucky Franco saved your asses from that horror. By the way… the man who enabled the communists to win in my country was a certain man called Mehmet Shehu who fought on the Republican side in Spain… if only Franco had killed him!
That is because no judgement was made after Franco' dead. Everything continues the same and still the victims are searching for the bodies of their parents and grandparents (I think Spain is the seccond -if not the first- country with more people dissapeared in mass graves). The State has done nothing to repair all the crimes and to properly remember the victims, as other post-dictatorship-states did. In Spain, after 1975 omertá was imposed. It is not the propper way to heal wounds
@@feelcycling And its happening again with your beautiful garbage socialists igniting the flames. I think the solution is pretty f-ing obvious, outlaw leftism, put the King in power and keep it Catholic and keep it Spanish as socialists are acting against Spanish interests.
My two grandparents fought in the Spanish Civil War, despite living on each other a few kilometers, one lived in the national zone and the other in the Republican, as the vast majority, they were forcibly recruited and fought on sides in sides opposites.
Los rojos no eran republicanos, los rojos destruyeron la república que ellos mismos gobernaban declarando y provocando la guerra, porque querian imponer a la fuerza una "dictadura del proletariado", dicho textualmente por Largo Caballero entre otros jefes socialistas. Los rojos que van de feministas quisieron prohibir el voto femenino para ganar las elecciones, Los que de verdad defendieron la república fueron los nacionales en tres ocasiones. Leed historiadores de verdad, y no a borrachos comunistas y vendidos que se hacen llamar historiadores.
This was hardly a war, but a proffesional army dealing with a bunch of bullies used to intimidate priests and farmers, who suddenly had to face many of the most veteran units in the country. They just got stomped over.
There are tons of stories of attrocities commited by the side that you are deffending, that was also full of bullies. You are only seeing half of the problem.
@@carlsderder Im not siding with anybody. Im saying this was an asymmetric war where one side had close to none proffesional units and absolutely no veteran units but was full of "freedom fighters" and sticks.When you have to take territory and conquer land your skills in intimidation and bar fights isnt as useful as marching 20miles in one day through rough terrain and forming battle lines with discipline afterwards. A better strategy for the blue colored side would have been a gerrilla war, but I assume that fighting your own people that knows as well as you the terrain you are dealing with is not as useful as it was for example in the Napoleonic wars against the french.
@@neruba2173 i agree with you, i dont reject that information, i reject the part where you say the thing about bullies, as it implies that the national side was not full of bullies. To me, that is obviously taking a side, as some stranger could think that nationalists where civilized and religious while republicans where barbarian murderers killing priests and farmers. The real story is that nationalists had generals that made radio programs telling people to rape women and other kind of barbarian things.
@@carlsderder I dont know about any of that. I know there are attrocities through out history made in the context of a war, and attrocities that ignited the war itself. While attrocities are equally reprehensible I can see a difference there. Also, I understand that the spanish civil war is probably the only war in history where the aftermath and history was written by the losing side, not the winning side. So at least they won the ideological and propaganda battle, which is an important one imo.
@@neruba2173 you just erased 40 years of dictatorship from history. I'm aware of the crimes before during and after the war that happened on both sides. If "you dont know about that" when im talking about nationalists raping women maybe you don't know a lot about Spain.
Era un lema vacío del franquismo como tantos otros que no significaba nada, pues en la España franquista el régimen de Franco nunca buscó la igualdad ni la justicia social, en lugar de ello perpetuó los privilegios de los ricos. España solo empezó a crecer ya en el tardofranquismo, con la apertura económica y ya el régimen en las últimas, y aún así el crecimiento económico no fue igualitario para todos pues hubo diferencias enormes tanto entre territorios como entre clases sociales.
The figure of 500-600K mean only the total number of KILLED (both troops and CIVILIANS). Global averages in wars are quite consistent and state that KILLED people account for only 20% of victims. Therefore, you need to multiply 500,000 by 80 (= 4,000,000) or 600 by 80 (=4,800,000) to include the WOUNDED (both troops and CIVILIANS) who were also VICTIMS. This gives you a range of 500,000 killed + 4,000,000 wounded = 4,500,000 VICTIMS to 600,000 killed + 4,800,000 wounded = 5,400,000 VICTIMS. Now, in 1936 the total population of all of Spain was 24,810,000 people (100%). The total number of victims in the Civil War years (1936-1939, not including the terrible starvation and deprivation victims of the postwar years) is therefore a range of 18.14% to 21.77%. To put that in perspective, during WW2 the country with the highest percentage of victims was Poland, with a record 17% of population (and the efforts of the very efficient Nazi machine, and the less efficient but more brutal Soviet machine). This makes the Spanish Civil War MUCH MORE BRUTAL than WW2. And in a shorter timespan. Without the huge military numbers involved in WW2. It is scientifically IMPOSSIBLE that the "total casualties" (I suppose you mean indeed both killed and wounded) could ever be "just" 500,000 or 600,000. We both know that the number of "1,000,000" dead was roughly the double of the real number, and it served both the propaganda of the defeated Republicans and of the triumphant Francoists.
Lets say people divided in two, but the revolted army had to came from Morocco, where they had been posted by the gouvernment at the time the coup was planified
Hoi isn't that inaccurate for a long time except the stupid anarchist uprising that ruin everything. But the starting borders are kinda accurate and the position of international support. That being said economy is very inaccurate as republic should be waaaaaay stronger in that regard but nationalists start only a little bit weaker and after taking Bilbao they are actually stronger industrial wise.
HOI4 thinks Vikund Quisling was able to muster a large army and navy while also taking complete control of Oslo hours into the German invasion of Norway. Paradox makes fantasy games.
@@dillonhunt1720 Paradox forgot about Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939 and forget that Warsaw wasnt captured in quick raid and that it was held until the last days of war while being totally encircled and cut off from anything and that Poland didnt surrender right away after losing it like France which is ruled by Blum because they forgot about Daladier and many more.
@@aulus3792 dude not everything has to be historial how the fuck is poland gonna hold out while i do 40 cas damage and have 2 medium tank template heading to warsaw
@@masfishing3614indeed but still if spain was communist im sure the nazis would have invaded and ravaged the country. Also those troops he sent were officially "volunteers" because Spain was technically "neutral" even if Franco had sympathies for the Nazis
Republic wasnt communist but they didnt have any other ally that tried to help them in any way. You may never heard of it but 2nd biggest "ally" of the republic was probably Poland which was selling outdated equipment, that's how bad the situation was for them. If the republic would win they would try to cut off soviet influence.
@@aulus3792 at the beginning it was quite plural, but at the end of the war everything was controlled by people and ideas close to the USSR. The dissolution of the "milicias populares" and the creation of the "Ejército Popular de la República", and the repression against anarchists and parties considered "lukewarm" or Trotskyists was the turning point that led to this.
I'm Spanish and I think it's a great job. I think many of my fellow citizens, especially the younger ones, should watch this video. There is a lot of ignorance and double standards when it comes to telling this horrible civil war.
The Italians really helped out Franco's Forces. The were at the Assault Forefront when big maneuvers happened, and one of the many reasons Italy performed less in WW2 was because italy was bankrupt from supporting and supplying Nationalist Spain, and needed a lot more time to refurbish the Nation's Economy and Army.
Hahaha. The Italians where mocked by the Nationalist side (Franco's) themselves because of their cowardice. Look up for the Battle of Guadalajara. There are even jocking couplets dedicated to them
Where did you hear that? Italians barely participated on air bombing campaings, they took advantage of the war as a training platform for their novel air force.
Los alemanes también apoyaron al bando nacional (fascistas) de hecho probaron todos sus nuevos "juguetes" en España, justo antes de que "empezara" la ll.G.M
Destacar que el golpe de Estado de julio de 1936 contra la Segunda República española comenzó en Melilla el 17 de julio de 1936 y de allí se extendió al Protectorado español de Marruecos y a las Islas Canarias, quedando también ambos territorios en zona franquista. Fue clave el puente aéreo entre el Protectorado y las provincias de Cádiz y Sevilla para trasladar las tropas coloniales de Marruecos a la Península para marchar hasta Madrid.
No sé si llamarlo "golpe de estado". Dos años antes hubo otro parecido del PSOE contra el gobierno republicano legítimamente elegido (no como en las elecciones de febrero del 36) y ha pasado a la historia como "Revolución de Asturias". Como dice el dicho: o todos moros...
Mis abuelos tuvieron que emigrar a Venezuela durante la guerra y no pudieron volver hasta que murió Franco y aun después, vivieron con miedo el resto de sus vidas por temor a que les vinieran a buscar a sus casas cualquier noche mientras dormían para asesinarlos. Es por eso que odio tanto a los políticos que tenemos ahora que solo piensan en dividir a la población. Esa guerra no la ganó nadie y parece que algunos todavía no se han dado cuenta. España es un país muy bonito pero su gente es tóxica.
Not my feelings of actually living in Spain. I can compare it to the Dutch, where I originally come from. The Dutch are much more racist and xenophobe than the average Spanish person. However, yes, there are complete idiots. I mean, look at what they are doing now against the democratically chosen and wise PM Pedro Sanchez. It's a big disgrace! But. They shouldn't talk and complain if the Catalans will push for independence if there would come an extreme right wing government in Madrid. I will fully support the Catalan cause. Without a doubt! Even though I prefer Real Madrid over FC Barcelona 😂
Ahora los socialistas españoles están robando en maletas el oro de Venezuela, como en su día lo hicieron con el de España. El socialismo no cambia nunca.
En España en la epoca de la republica no era todo color rosa. Quemaron vivos a un monton de personas por el simple hecho de ser catolicos, quemaron iglesias, obras de arte, se hicieron presos politicos y ya ni te digo la situcion economica como estaba. No soy franquista pero vivi en la epoca de el y puedo decir que se vivia con miedo pero podiamos dejar la llave de casa por fuera de la puerta metida y nunca pasaba nada. Haz esas cosas ahora mismo y te ves a 10 islamistas en tu casa
@@javichoke You clearly don't know much history about Spain if your key takeaway is, Spain won 40 years of peace... Considering they didn't win it, the world let them have the peace, the alternative was, forcefully removing Franco's regime. They lived in outcast from Europe for over a decade until the rise of the cold war.
What i found amazing is at the start of the war, the nationalists were at a 1:3 disadvantage, still they held strong and made more casualties. Does anyone know how this difference in quality of troops can be explained?
Franco and his supporters came from a more military background and there was a lot of infighting between the republican side (communists, socialists, anarquists...) while the nationalists had more of a common goal, but there is probably more nuance than this.
The army supported the Nationalist, the republican army was built of civilians, so they had no experience at all,. In the other hand, Francl's army had experience due to the different conflicts in Africa
La historia que escribieron los vencedores dice una cosa, pero la realidad es que sectores capitalistas extranjeros apoyaron al bando franquista, por no hablar de la familia march que hoy sigue siendo la mas poderosa de españa en la sombra. Hoy españa tiene vendidos todos sus recursos estratégicos al extranjero, y lo único que tenemos es sol y deuda al BCE→ BPI
Si, las brigadas internacionales ayudaron a la republica, el mayor problema era que tampoco tenian experiencia alguna, pues eran todos voluntarios. La Republica tuvo que crear un ejercito desde 0, mientras q el bando sublevado se levanto con la ayuda del ya existente.@@dsl5693
Imagine being the Portugese during this war. A bloody Civil War is happening literally just next door and there's nothing you can do but just wait it out and hope it doesn't spill over to Portugese land on accident (misfired rocket for example).
"my hand is an helicopter, your arguments are invalid" Joke aside in italy that hand gesture means irritation and "to had enough" to the counterpart arguments
The carlists fought with the nationalists and the anarchists fought with the republicans. there’s actually even more groups that existed that aren’t even on Hoi4
Well, the advance of the Franco's army was from South to North, Badajoz es the first battle and was attacked by the army from Africa, not as the video, you forgot the battle of Toledo and Guadarrama battle in the south of Madrid also Teruel was a subleved city, was taken by Republic's army and retaken by Franco, in the North also are mistakes and so, well it is difficult
Es gibt hier keine Quellenbelege für das was gezeigt wird. Ich würde gerne wissen, woher die Zahlen stammen. Klar das meiste davon lässt sich einfach prüfen, aber so genaue Zahlen, zu Daten und Positionen. Das findet man nicht so einfach und verlässlich. Also wo sind die Quellen?
Eso mismo pensé yo, y supongo que muchos otros españoles que vean el vídeo. Por lo visto, el autor suele identificar al bando atacante en rojo y al defensor en azul
Tampoco sería el azul el color adecuado para representar el bando sublevado, ya que al fascismo le representa mucho mejor el color gris. (aunque pensándolo bien, el color azul también podría encajar por eso de los "camisas azules" de la Falange y porque es el color opuesto del rojo)
@@rafahernandez6015 en España yo siempre he visto color azul para el bando nacional y rojo para el bando republicano, se hace muy raro verlo de al revés
Cool video! As I’m Spanish I need to express how funny/unfortunate the choice of colours is from my perspective. To represent the side of Nationals you could find better than red. 😅
It's a NATO thing.. Red for attackers, blue for defenders. (I know, it's a civil war.. I guess "attackers" are the ones going to change the regime, opposed to the ones that wanted to keep it).
@@sirsancti5504 Para identificar a atacantes y defensores en este vídeo, no hace falta recurrir a argumentos políticos, sino solo visuales. Los atacantes son los que avanzan victoriosos, y los defensores los que retroceden.
The fascist side had most of the proffesional army and the best troops (the army of Africa). The republican side survived the coup thanks to the movilization of trade unions militias.
The sergeants of the Army were supporting Whites even more ardently than the generals! The chevalry was White. And yes, the Reds were mobilising the most trade unions. So the numerical disproportion of 1936 was not so drastic: trade union columns without adequate sergeants and corporals against the systematic army and gendarmerie.
When you break down a war to just numbers then yeah maybe you could come to that conclusion, however in reality the fascists had military support from basically the entirety of the axis
Descansen en paz todas esas almas. Es triste que nos hubiéramos matado entre hermanos. Y parece que no aprendemos porque cada día nos noto más cerca de otra guerra civil. Un español matando a otro español es muy triste.
En este tipo de mapas suelen pintar al bando agresor de rojo y al agredido de azul. Pintándolo por ideologías sería más bien el bando republicano de rojo y el fascista de gris (tampoco de azul, que el azul representa más bien a la derecha democrática mientras que el gris se asocia más al fascismo)
@@neko_Rubii Bueno, alejándonos del azul que actualmente adopta el liberalismo conservador (PP), en aquella época el azul bien podría representar, al menos, a una parte del bando nacional, como a los falangistas y sus camisas azules.
@@eldariontelcontar278 Sí, también lo he pensado después, cuando se me vino a la cabeza los "camisas azules" de la Falange, así que sí, tienes razón, el azul puede representar bien el bando nacional (además que el azul es el color opuesto al rojo)
Why do people always limit their commentary on the Civil War as a preparation to WW2? It sure was thatz but its effects are much greater in the war itself, not the fact that it was a precursor to WW2. This war led to a 40 year dictatorship and changed the country forever. People in Spain today think in some way or another about the war and Franco pretty much every day. Spain today is completeley shaped by the Civil War, and that's by far the most important effect
But how? Looking from the other side of Europe seems like Franco had this regime, that lasted while he lived, and after then nobody cared about continuing it because the whole francoism didnt make sense anymore. This civil war seemed to me totally unnecessary, the best thing that you got a ticket to watch WW2 as a spectator, but it was not a free ticket. I think in the long run it didnt matter which side won this war.
Is it completely shaped by Franco and the Nationalists, though? I feel like that whole era fell apart quite hard. Obviously there's always impact on the future as with anything, but I think the bigger question is what if they'd lost instead? What would Spain have been like then and today?
@@maynardburger most probably, a Communist puppet. The Republic was just a joke, and nobody cared for being "democratic" in that time. In fact, that government, "the Republic" himself, was pushed by also a "coup d'etat" too, so was normal that all ended in fire.
@@varkonyitibor4409Unfortunately the effects of Franco's regime have not remained mere historical tales, but have completely shaped the state of modern Spain. It all goes back to Franco's plan for Spain after his death: he ensured Spain would become a monarchy (without public approval), had a right wing cabinet lead the creation of the Constitution (which largely remains intact today and is notoriously hard to modify) and much of the Francoist era imagery, symbolism and such has only begun to be taken down recently. Francoism is still firmly engraved in many Spanish people's minds.
Sometimes you have to give it to the people who want it more. The republican forces just flopped over and took it, despite outnumbering the fascists 3 to 1 and the fact they had all these foreign volunteers and support.
The Fascists also received a ton of support from Germany and Italy. And other than the USSR many other countries were reluctant to help since the republicans were communists
The allies didn't give enough. The Soviets tried but without French intervention or UK it was basically a hopeless cause. Add in the Republicans infighting with liberal parties and the anti communism and yeah they basically got dusted. They should not have lost this war.
@@francofrancisco1981they weren't communists, they were republicans, don't be ignorant. And fascism in simple terms means ultranationalism, so basically eat, breathe, piss and shit for your nation, a made up concept not worth dying for. This is not what life is about. And Franco took that away from too many people. Also, I like the name Franco, it's been demonized because of the demon who had this name, but it can mean a lot of different things, and if it's not tied to that demon, I think it's a beautiful name.
@Gatamic They were. They literally went to Spanish Churches to massacre priests and nuns. This is well documented thanks to the spooky Fascist winning. Stop downplaying
ℹ: *1 flag = ~10,000 soldiers*
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Guerrilha do Araguia pls
Can you do the american revolution? Havent seen it yets
I just saw the thumbnail and it looks like Franco looks like he is playing.
Which is around 1 division for hoi4 players
Quick question. How do you do this? Is it a website or is it in google earth? I really want to know
So you’re telling me the country didn’t just one day perfectly split in half like in hoi4??? 🤯🤯🤯
It got updated in Arms against Tyranny I reckon
@@Oscar-ys9yxIt did?
Haven’t seen any change yet in my game.
Since when does it perfectly split in half?
@@Oscar-ys9yxbut in the game there is an anarchist side in catalonia. I thought it was historical. That's not what happened?
Always interesting to consider the high amount of foreign volunteers and foreign legions sent there by states (including the USSR Italy and Germany) that all participated in the civil war. Kind of gives you a feeling that this was a 20th century European proxy war.
Interesting, never thought of it like that
Well it was. If their side loses they also lose the opportunity to get an ally and worse, risking it falling into the enemies hands and joining them
A lot of Irish too strangely
Right, kind of the first battle against fascism. But the Allies decided to maintain Franco's regime
It was a WW2 proxy war though
My portuguese great grandfather worked in france as a mechanic at that time was caught in middle of the conflict as he was passing spain and got arrested by the spanish military , good thing is that it was close to Portugal and after some days in military custody some spanish guards let him go in the middle of the night ,"vaya portugues , rapido rapido " and he manage to cross the border back to Portugal 😂
Pissing off Portugal would've been a MAJOR mistake for either side, with Spain divided like that Portugal could've easily swooped in and turned the war in either direction it wished (the fact they supported Franco can be seen as one of the main reasons for early Fracoist success), so he was never really in any danger they were always going to have to let him go, this is not just modern day Portugal, it was colonial Portugal, that could've easily pulled up like a million soldiers like it was nothing from it's African colonies, not a nation you'd want to anger
@@liquidsnake6879 why would 1 million africans help the portuguese
1 million definetly not, but africans were a major part of the colonial garrisons and they activelly fougth in the colonial wars against the rebels@@New_frisk
@@New_frisk Not 1 million africans, but 1 million soldiers including reserves from there, they'd do it for the same reason they did during the colonial war, they'd just be conscripted same as the whites.
They were technically Portuguese nationals themselves in those days, there were no independent nations that exist today in those regions. So there wasn't the same distinction that there might be now about the "Portuguese" being a separate people that you're going to "help" you're just being conscripted by your nation same as if Angola called you up today.
@@liquidsnake6879there's no point killing a foreign civilian in a conflict.
My grandparents were born in 1933 and 1936 in Murcia. Their lives where marked by this event, there was a lot of hunger everywhere and had to do anything to survive. I'm lucky to still have them and be able to ask them about stories and the way of living at that time, its gives me much perspective into todays life, and how people have became increasingly weaker
Yeah this is because leftist government mismanaged and caused people to starve
Una guerra que fue promovida por una parte de ingleses y, por otra el comunismo, utilizando a sus felones, que por desgracia hoy en día también los hay.
It’s would be more usefull to male a video about the chekas (campos de concentracion de la TITANIA STALINISTA QIE FUE LA II Republica. DE COMO CERRARON EL SENADO, DE COMO SE CERRARON TODOS LOS MEDIOS DE COMUNICACION; -Com Franco aunqie con cesura, si se podia ser propietario privado de medios de comumicacion-. DE COMO NO HABIA DERECHO EN BUENA PARTE A LA PROPIEDAD PRIVADA O A LA BIDA…. ETC ETC YA TRAJO LA MISERIA EL SOCIALISMO DURANTE LA MISMA
Yo soy de Granada, pero aún así yo siempre que puedo me encanta ir a Murcia, es mi sitio de viaje turístico sobre todo Águilas, un pueblo en la costa❤
Los mios cayeron en un bombardeo a manos de pilotos alemanes
There are a few minor incorrections, but generally a good work.
Incorrections include:
- Not placing the italians at the helm of the Malaga Ofensive in early 1937, neither at the fall of Bilbao in mid'37.
- Not representing the Republican offensive at Teruel in late 1937 (which actually managed to seize the city, albeit shortly)
- Not representing the Nationalist advance towards Valencia in the spring of 1938, which was stopped around Segorbe in what became the last republican victory of the war
- Leaving the Germans idle around Seville, when the Legion Condor was in fact moving around constantly in support of the Nationalists in most of the relevant battles of the war.
But good work anyway. Your video is well worth watching.
there weren't 10k soldiers if there is no flag
А ещё не было испанских анархистов
The aerial bombing of Guernica killed ~1600 civilians, but the casualty counter only rises by a few hundred on April 26 1937.
could be that, but the Condor Legion work was significant anyway. They should not always follow that rule @@SuhbanIo
@@enekolavinbellido5402 true
Always remember that every number was a life, someone loved that person.
Franco was the best Spanish leader ever
no wth?
@@stasbz7867
unfortunately this is how things are.The loss of one man is a tragedy but the loss of millions are just numbers
All these soldiers are only seen as statistics for the leaders
@@stasbz7867Álvaro Bazán, gran capitán, Blas de Lezo, Gran duque del alba>>>>>>>Franco
Two of my great-grandfathers fought in this war. One in each side. Many common soldiers didn't fight in the side they wanted (they didn't even want to fight), but they fought in the side that came first to their village and recruited them; they had no other choice, or they would have been shot right there. One of my great-grandfathers died in a battle in Galicia, he was one of those numbers that rise so fast in the first years of the war. The other had better luck, after serving long time in such a horror, he could desert during the battle of Ebro, crossing the river swimming and escaping to France. He was "enslaved" by the French, forced to work in the mines, until he could come back home after the war. In his absence, my great-grandmother, with her mother and sisters, survived by smuggling of goods hidden in fake-bellies (they pretended to be pregnant). Those were hard times for all Spanish society. Not to mention all the crimes and mass murders of civilians commited by both sides.
It was not a war of good vs. bad, or right vs. wrong. It was a bloody disaster for our society, that all people had to suffer, all families were touched by it, and we are still bleeding from it, since many people even in Spain only focus on the crimes of "the other side", instead of acknowledging the history as shameful as it was in its full.
Yes but Franco and the other we in fact generals so they treason Spain. They received help from Hitler and and Mussolini then reasoned them. Then they said fighting a crusade... Let African provinces in hands of the neighbours... Republic was legitimate, the fascist only were lucky during cold war period
@@alejandrorivera1812A yes, those facts are true, but they are not the whole story. Despite the republican government was "legitimate", that doesn't mean it was good. The years before the war were full of injustice, State terrorism, burning of churches, political assassinations, and many other abuses of power that resulted in many people being unfairly treated, tortured or even murdered. The Spanish second republic is often (and sadly) glorified as if it was a great period, when it was far from just ok. Half of the country did not went into rebellion because they were evil fascists that wanted to destroy the country: the fascists, as in any country were they reached power, fed on the social crisis that the State was facing, bringing hope to desperate people who fell into the fascist populism because they wanted change to end the madness they lived in. Of course none of that justifies the horrible crimes comited by Franco and his fascist dictatorship; but in the same way, the fact that the "legitimate" republican goverment was destroyed by the fascists does not erase all the crimes that the republic had commited against the population before (and during) the war.
@@DeathMoonKnight wow, rare to see someone on the internet who actually has a well-informed and nuanced take that takes into account all sides and biases of the historical area he is talking about. Quite glad to see that people like you are still around.
As always history is never black and white; it's always shades of grey.
@@fierylightning3422 thanks, it's indeed quite difficult to stay objective and seek the truth in our polarized society. Sadly, Spain is still deeply divided, and our politics are taken by populism full of hate for "the others". I don't know if we will ever be able to overcome such divisions. The way people tend to blindly "choose one team" in wars as if they were just football games, even with current conflicts (e.g. Israel vs. Palestine), is sick. Nothing good will ever come from believing that in wars one side is full of evil people and the other is full of saints who always do the right things.
@@DeathMoonKnight as a Spaniard i like your take, Calvo Sotelo was the guy you were thinking i guess, a right wing politician who was taken from his house by republican cops and murdered, by many this is considered the break point of peace in Spain and the main reason the african military raise against the republic
Colours are inverted, because in the right side were Socialist and comunist must go on red, and the enemies at the left were the "blue army" (el ejército azul).
And it's missing the help of Stalin to the comunists...
But rest of things are correct.
Nazi flag is plenty red, the best friends of the dictator Francisco Franco ;)
My first thought, those numbers on the communist side aren't right
Red = aggressor
Blue = defender
That's how these map videos work
@@LancerIHR Even your comment is wrong. The Republican Government was killing population and christians. The army defend them from communist, socialists and anarchists. Learn history please. There are a lot of myth about it
@@LancerIHR Wrong
It looks very very strange that you used blue for the republicans and red for the nationals, as both sides identified themselves and the others with the exact opposite (red=republican and blue=national)
I guess it's an USA thing, where the republicans are the right side and represented as red, while the left side is represented as blue.
@@user-vq6jc8uh6p It is more of a NATO thing, blue is used for friendly and red for enemy. It isn't really to do with US politics the colours of which are relatively recent.
He knows nothing about Spain (and its Civil War). For example, the total amount of casualties was about 540.000 according to the demographic data available in wich most of the historians from both sides agree.
@@robert111k I think casualties includes also wounded, not only dead.
@@MarkHewitt1978 indeed i think that red is used for the attackants and blue for defenders
Canción popular española sobre la guerra civil, basada en una historia real:
Caminando por el bosque
En el suelo vi que había
Una carta ensangrentada
De cuarenta años hacia
Era de un paracaidista
De la octava compañía
Que a su madre le escribía
Y la carta así decía
Madre anoche en las trincheras
Entre el fuego y la metralla
Vía al enemigo correr
La noche estaba cerrada
Apunte con mi fusil
Al tiempo que disparaba
Y una luz que iluminó
El rostro que yo mataba
Era mi amigo José
Compañero de la escuela
Con quien tanto yo jugué
A soldados y a trincheras
Ahora el juego era verdad
Y a mi amigo ya lo entierran
Madre yo quiero morir
Ya estoy harto de esta guerra
Madre si vuelvo a escribir
Tal vez sea desde el cielo
Donde encontrare a José
Y jugaremos de nuevo
Si mi sangre fuera tinta
Y mi corazón tintero
Con las sangre de mis venas
Te escribiría: Te quiero
Carta original:
Querida madre, no sé como empezar esta carta pero te escribo con mi rostro bañado en lagrimas, caen por la soledad, tristeza, dolor y sufrimiento que vivo día tras día aquí. Lo primero que tengo que decirte es Te Quiero y aunque no lo demuestre con frecuencia, Te quiero con locura, para mi eres la persona más importante, siempre has estado ahí apoyándome y protegiéndome, haces que las cosas malas parezcan buenas, tus consejos están llenos de sabiduría y siempre me has llevado por el buen camino. Ahora ya soy mayor de edad, tengo dieciocho años, puedo afrontar yo solo las cosas... pero la verdad es que no puedo madre... Perdóname, os hecho mucho de menos, ¡no quiero estar aquí! Se que desde casa junto a padre y mis hermanos os sentís orgullos de mi, podéis presumir de tener un hijo en el frente. Lo siento por ser un cobarde madre pero tengo miedo, más del que puedo aguantar. No entiendo esta guerra, no se cual es el bando bueno, no sé por qué lucho, no entiendo nada de lo que pasa, solo acato ordenes. El incesante sonido de los fusiles se mezclan con los gritos y llantos de la gente torturando mis oídos día y noche, vivo con una melodía continua de ametralladoras y lluvias constantes de bombarderos. Ya no hablo ni pienso, porque otros lo hacen por mi, solo me hace falta una frase para salir del paso aquí, “a la orden”. Dicen que el amor es suficiente para seguir adelante, que hay que luchar por nuestras familias, demostrar lo que valemos, pero ya no tengo el valor para estar en la batalla, las piernas me tiemblan sin parar, no duermo, me cuesta respirar, lloro a escondidas porque no puedo demostrar lo que siento delante de mis compañeros, se fuerte y lucha me repito constantemente, pero las palabras se pierden en mi mente como las vidas de la gente que esta a mi alrededor, soy la marioneta de un tirano titiritero. A noche nos lanzaron en paracaídas a una zona nueva de batalla, dicen que somos la mejor compañía jamás vista, la fuerza de los ochos nos llaman. La octava compañía paracaidista, siempre al frente luchando por su patria, por los ideales de un estado, viviendo el conflicto con lealtad y valor. Somos soldados valerosos, abrimos brechas en las filas enemigas, causamos bajas en ellos como si fueran animales y no tenemos remordimientos, pero todo es mentira pura mentira, solo fachada, una apariencia; los rostros de la gente demuestran lo contrario, sus caras se han tronado sombrías y pálidas, muestran el temor, horror y desamparo que se vive aquí, pero como nos repiten una y otra vez, “¡soldados o ellos o ustedes!” Madre para lo que realmente te escribo es para contarte lo que me ocurrió anoche. Me encontraba en el campo de batalla resguardándome del fuego cruzado y la metralla. Como siempre acataba ordenes, teníamos que superar una cota para llegar hasta un punto estratégico que nos serviría de base, para ello era necesario abatir al contrario con toda nuestra fuerza, no escatimamos en munición, ni violencia... Madre anoche en las trincheras vía al enemigo correr hacia mi, le apunte con mi fusil y sin darle tiempo a reaccionar le dispare; algo raro paso en ese momento, ya había matado a más gente antes pero en aquel chicho había algo distinto, una luz ilumino su rostro, la cara del enemigo al que asesinaba… madre era mi amigo José, mi compañero de la escuela, nuestro vecino, el hijo de Francisca, mi mejor amigo, con quien tanto yo jugué a soldados y a trincheras. Madre ahora el juego es verdad, no hay risas, solo oscuridad y llantos, no volveremos a jugar jamás, ¡lo están enterrando! Lo siento muchísimo, te pido perdón madre pero ya no aguanto mas aquí, me quiero morir, estoy harto de esta guerra, ¡no se dan cuenta que no va a ganar nadie joder! Tal vez te vuelva a escribir, pero la próxima que lo haga será desde el cielo, donde encontrare a José y jugaremos de nuevo. Madre ten por seguro que si mi sangre fuera tinta y mi corazón tintero, con la sangre de mi venas, te escribiría un “TE QUIERO”.
Hasta siempre.
Najgorsza rzecz w wojnach domowych
Bueno, esa supuesta carta tiene un poco de mito, no se sabe muy bien la canción de donde vino, probablemente de campamentos de boy scouts o religiosos de los años 60/70s.
Le ocurre como a la famosa carta del jefe Siux, demasiado buena, para ser verdad, en realidad fue creada en los años 60s con el movimiento hippie, pero si basada en una carta que a su vez se hizo 30 años después de un discurso del jefe Seattle en 1854. Y aun más, la version que suele conocerse en internet, es de los años 80s..
@@TheRetroGuy83 A ver, la canción es obviamente una adaptación. Pero hasta donde sé, la carta tiene propietario con nombre y apellidos.
@@ferra098 Quien, Andrew Blanchtt Kensington periodista del NY Times? He buscado por internet en ingles, con nombres similares, blanchett kessington,... y NADA.
@@TheRetroGuy83 Jajaj no sé, me acordé de la canción, la busqué y la copié. Hará diez años que no le doy vueltas al tema más allá de cuando la tarareo. Pero en su momento te garantizo que leí algún artículo que explicaba de qué pueblo era y todo. Si me pides enlace... Pues no lo tengo. Que me la hayan colado? Pues a saber
I didn't know this war was so gruesome. Seems like it was a notable precursor to the second world war as well.
Alot of terror bombing of civilians by the Germans and Italians.
Indeed, it also a good testing ground for new technology for the soviet and german
Pretty sure the casualties were closer to 400-500k
@@peterthesneakybastarThis also includes captured or injured soldiers. The number you are thinking of are fatalities.
The war was so gruesome Spain decided to stay out of the 2nd World War. WW2 would have went sideways if Spain joined the Axis. If they captured Gibraltar it would have been a devastating blow for the British. They would not have been able to resupply their troops in North Africa.
My great grandfather avoided this war when he permanently moved to El Salvador in the 1890's. What a smart move. My mother moved to USA in 1974 and avoided the salvadorean civil war (1979-1982) another smart move.
I think you mean lucky. Smart implies inconsiderate things about your family’s countrymen.
@@hahayouarefunnyYup you are right both smart and lucky moves. But if one of them passed away, I wouldn't have existed.
Illegally?
Actually, this civil war started in 1936, she was maybe avoiding the carlistas wars
back then America was open to immigrants
This war was bloodier than i expected
Saddly
ye ik there were 1 million deaths but cuz of the economic crisis after and franco dictator ship the war caused 2.5 million casualtys 1 mllion of the war 400k from execution after war and 1.2 million cuz slavery or starve
Over a million dead and who knows how many injured or disabled
@@Xgamez01yeah sure commie
@@dachicagoan8185 Casualties usually count wounded beyond fighting capability as well
Mussolini giving a speech in German language is pure comedy
lmao exactly it was kinda funny
Took me compleatly of guard honestly
Not sure if he spoke german or just read his script, but his pronounciation was definetly not that bad
i don't know because i don't understand german... he speaks it bad?
that Hitler speech with japanese captions was there too.
@@noobster4779 he used to live in swiss so there he got it from
7:46 Mr. Stalin, I don’t feel so good
Someone went to the gulag for that one for sure
Holomodor 😘
@@hectorherrero1638 if fake
@@ArgusOnlineIG that we want your think Young goy😉
@@ArgusOnlineIG you*
The speech in 1:06 was not made in 1936 but in 1938, after the battle of the Ebro, when Republican defeat was inevitable. The video (apart from the little extract you played) is lost, but we still have all the voice recording of that speech, which Azaña made with no paper or notes. It is called Paz, Piedad y Perdón (Peace, Mercy and Forgiveness) and is a message about reconciliation when the war ends.
I think that the interpretation on this video is very good, specifically considering the units shown with flags, I thought it was pretty cool seeing the Italian troops pouring in. Thank you for the wonderful productions.
Edit: This is my first TH-cam Post with over 100 likes so thank you all!
It would have been nice to see the anarchists of Catalonia, the POUM militias, and other factions within the republic.
They had a bad time in Guadalajara
@@user-microburstnothing new, italians being italians in war
@@miguelrodriguezluque7742only during WW1 and 2. Otherwise italians used to be quite badass fighters
@@user-microburst well, they didn't do much better in Ethiopia hahaha but yeah, I agree with you
As an spanish citizen im astonished of how epic and accurate is this video. Well done.
No es muy fiel a lo que fue el movimiento del frente real
Which side do modern Spanish people side with?
@@peterthesneakybastar spanish society is very confronted because that conflict, maybe a little bit more supports the spanish republic
@@peterthesneakybastar Most spaniards were either pro-republican or indifferent a decade ago. Then the left made a law banning apology for Franco and, of course, provoked a surge of support for francoism, mostly to piss off the current leftist goverment. You know how it works, ban something and it will inmediately become trendy.
And all that people dont know anything
1.2 Million Casualties (includes wounded people), I didnt know this war was so Bloody
They also did nazi level crimes after the war was over. Like medical experiments, mass killings and concentration camps.
Wikipedia says way less casualties so i dont know if this video or wikipedia is lying.
@@ariton2990 Casualties normally imply killed, wounded, captured, deserters, et cetera. The usual proportions seem to fit with Wikipedia
@@aksmex2576You're crazy
we wanted bread, water and light after the war. We were busy making babies and have almost no people to make experiment with ...
It wasn't. Casualties include wounded, captured, etc... Note in the video how in the last days, when the Republic collapses, the number of republican casualties goes up by exactly the same amount of republican troops left before the collapse. The Nationalist casualties figure is less affected by surrendered troops, and if you apply the general principle of 20% dead 80% wounded, then you get close to the figures in wikipedia, which only account for dead soldiers. Then you have to add up the people murdered by rearguard repression in both sides, which should amount to aproximately 60k executions by the republicans and 150k by the nationalists (including post-war executions). If you add civilian deaths from famine, bombings, etc... you will get a final death toll of about half a million people.
I have stories of family being forced to fight in both fronts. Of people hidong in the forest to avoid being recluted, of ship captains emulating their deaths to avoid capture... History must be learned in order to avoid repeating it. Let it be a lesson
This civil war marked all of Europe
Ikr? Imagined if the Republican were the one who won
How?
@@moondiegordr A lot of the warfare methods used by the axis were tested in there, and had the republic won spain would have been another battlefield during operation barbarossa
@@ivanvladimir0435
Right. Picasso's painting of "Gernika" was de representation of the bombing over Guernica by the German nazi and Italian fascist aviation
If the republic was victorious probably today we were communist
It is also interesting to see the actions of the central banks in financing the war, which were very clever plays.
La familia march...
JRR Tolkien supported the Nationalists in this war, interestingly enough. He was an admirer of Roy Campbell, who he compared to Aragorn (then named Trotter) in a letter. Campbell was a British fascist who fought in Malaga against the Republican General Villalba. According to Tolkien he recovered a religious artifact that the general had looted.
He knew how evil the Republic was
based tolkien
@@davidlopez6703nationalists executing thousands of civilians isn't evil to you ?
Yeah Tolkien was clearly closer to fascism than socialism, to say the least.
Tolkien abhorred of totalitarianism, the Soviet one even more than the nazi. Most people believe the nationalists were a bunch of bad guys who toppled a proper democratic regime, like the French Republic or the UK. But it was very far from that. The Communists and anarchists and such wanted a proletarian revolution (they failed the coup in 34). The nationalist coup of 36 was bound to happen. Also, the spanish fascists acquired ten times the influence and importance at the onset. They were few before the war. Later Franco got them in his pocket, for he was no fascist, but the staunchest “Franquista” of them all.
War is the worst aspect of human nature, but even more so are civil wars that destroy coexistence and leave an incurable social fracture for a long time.
Wow, it started and also resolved so fast, but the front line remains unchanged for the majority of the wartime.
3 years is fast?
@@aulus3792 I think he means how fast the frontlines moved when they actually did move.
@@aulus3792He meant that the start and end of the war were sudden not that the war itself was fast.
Sí, es muy comentado el hecho de cómo Franco fue asegurando los territorios ganados en vez de avanzar terreno. Hay que tener en cuenta que detrás de las filas, en los propios territorios ganados seguían pasando cosas feas para evitar nuevos alzamientos.
Por otra parte, el inicio fue repentino por el crudo contexto de la época, de hecho, en muchos cuarteles alzados se escuchaba el himno de la República, aunque al final todos los alzados se adscribieron al futuro dictador Franco.
Volviendo al tema de la lentitud, muchos de los esfuerzos de la guerra se centran en Asturias (Norte) y Cataluña (Noreste), dos frentes muy complicados y que, una vez resueltos, era fácil prever que los demás se rendirían.
Not fast! It was a failed coup that resulted in a 3 year slaughter of neighbours
From a global empire to a fractured peninsula
Basically that, but I don't want a second Spanish Empire bc that'd never happen again like it did from the late 15th to the 19th century
thats every empire in history
@@acusticamenteconvusional9936 yup, all empires had rises and downfalls...always has been
Not really. Look at France, Netherlands, UK and USA. They even got to keep part of their former colonial empires
@@Joridiy u know they're called overseas territories, right?
Spain will never die!1!1!1
Unless Spaniards decide to end up with each others 😂
@@feelcyclinge
Spain is going to disappear in less than 100 years (and I'm being generous). It will become a Moroccan province. The invasion has already started.
Una de las historias más tristes de este país. A día de hoy, aún tenemos heridas y nos cuesta remontar aquel momento.
Con franco ocurría 20 veces menos violaciones q ahora y la natalidad era la de un país con futuro , ahora es la de un país al borde de desaparecer para siempre.
Porque no interesa a los políticos para poder ir vareandote a donde quieren.
En mi opinión el mayor lastre que tiene España fue la guerra civil que todavía nos divide. No hay nada que una más un país que una guerra contra un enemigo externo, mientras en Europa lo hicieron aquí luchamos entre nosotros.
@@sombra3939 Mira lo q te digo q yo creo q la guerra civil fuel a gota q colmó el vaso eh... Para mi todo esto empezó en el 1700 con la guerra de sucesión, donde, por primera vez, se ejerció represión hacía una de las coronas, provocando mal estar. De ahí solo hemos ido cuesta abajo, en mi opinión.
Que sigan llegando más jovelandeses a España y vivan de paguitas 😂😂
Really puts it into perspective it was a war of attrition.
I'm spanish and watching this hurted so much. So many dead people. So many kids forced to fight. It's absurd. The worst thing, we learnt NOTHING from all those dead. We are still divided like we were in the past. No politician has come to unite Spain, they always want us divided to create hate and gain more votes. Fuck all of them, Spain doesn't deserve this. I just dream for a better tomorrow on my country, because I love it so much, yet it's so hard to not leave the country for a better place in Europe.
Franco saved you from communism dude…
In my country the communists won and we suffered 60 years of hell. They annihilated the intellectuals and clergy and the business culture so totally that it’s taken us 30 years to recover maybe 10% of what we lost. They even blow up ancient churches! Imagine if your country had been subjected to that horror? The tombs of your kids and churches blown up. The Spanish culture being systematically taken apart piece by piece so all you can do is quote Marx or Lenin.
You guys were so fucking lucky Franco saved your asses from that horror.
By the way… the man who enabled the communists to win in my country was a certain man called Mehmet Shehu who fought on the Republican side in Spain… if only Franco had killed him!
That is because no judgement was made after Franco' dead. Everything continues the same and still the victims are searching for the bodies of their parents and grandparents (I think Spain is the seccond -if not the first- country with more people dissapeared in mass graves).
The State has done nothing to repair all the crimes and to properly remember the victims, as other post-dictatorship-states did. In Spain, after 1975 omertá was imposed. It is not the propper way to heal wounds
@@feelcycling And its happening again with your beautiful garbage socialists igniting the flames. I think the solution is pretty f-ing obvious, outlaw leftism, put the King in power and keep it Catholic and keep it Spanish as socialists are acting against Spanish interests.
@@royale7620not only a fascist but also a monarchist, god does punish twice
And the bolcheviks criminals? Those who murdered Calvo Sotelo.
My two grandparents fought in the Spanish Civil War, despite living on each other a few kilometers, one lived in the national zone and the other in the Republican, as the vast majority, they were forcibly recruited and fought on sides in sides opposites.
Que triste. Y a la vez así ocurrió en muchas familias... hermanos contra hermanos 😢
Esa es una historia de origen brutal
Los rojos no eran republicanos, los rojos destruyeron la república que ellos mismos gobernaban declarando y provocando la guerra, porque querian imponer a la fuerza una "dictadura del proletariado", dicho textualmente por Largo Caballero entre otros jefes socialistas. Los rojos que van de feministas quisieron prohibir el voto femenino para ganar las elecciones, Los que de verdad defendieron la república fueron los nacionales en tres ocasiones. Leed historiadores de verdad, y no a borrachos comunistas y vendidos que se hacen llamar historiadores.
I have huge respect and love for Spain.
We appreciate that
This was hardly a war, but a proffesional army dealing with a bunch of bullies used to intimidate priests and farmers, who suddenly had to face many of the most veteran units in the country. They just got stomped over.
There are tons of stories of attrocities commited by the side that you are deffending, that was also full of bullies. You are only seeing half of the problem.
@@carlsderder Im not siding with anybody. Im saying this was an asymmetric war where one side had close to none proffesional units and absolutely no veteran units but was full of "freedom fighters" and sticks.When you have to take territory and conquer land your skills in intimidation and bar fights isnt as useful as marching 20miles in one day through rough terrain and forming battle lines with discipline afterwards. A better strategy for the blue colored side would have been a gerrilla war, but I assume that fighting your own people that knows as well as you the terrain you are dealing with is not as useful as it was for example in the Napoleonic wars against the french.
@@neruba2173 i agree with you, i dont reject that information, i reject the part where you say the thing about bullies, as it implies that the national side was not full of bullies. To me, that is obviously taking a side, as some stranger could think that nationalists where civilized and religious while republicans where barbarian murderers killing priests and farmers. The real story is that nationalists had generals that made radio programs telling people to rape women and other kind of barbarian things.
@@carlsderder I dont know about any of that. I know there are attrocities through out history made in the context of a war, and attrocities that ignited the war itself. While attrocities are equally reprehensible I can see a difference there. Also, I understand that the spanish civil war is probably the only war in history where the aftermath and history was written by the losing side, not the winning side. So at least they won the ideological and propaganda battle, which is an important one imo.
@@neruba2173 you just erased 40 years of dictatorship from history. I'm aware of the crimes before during and after the war that happened on both sides. If "you dont know about that" when im talking about nationalists raping women maybe you don't know a lot about Spain.
"En la España que forjamos no habrá un hogar sin lumbre ni una familia sin pan."
Era un lema vacío del franquismo como tantos otros que no significaba nada, pues en la España franquista el régimen de Franco nunca buscó la igualdad ni la justicia social, en lugar de ello perpetuó los privilegios de los ricos. España solo empezó a crecer ya en el tardofranquismo, con la apertura económica y ya el régimen en las últimas, y aún así el crecimiento económico no fue igualitario para todos pues hubo diferencias enormes tanto entre territorios como entre clases sociales.
No como ahora no?? 😂@neko_Rubii
@LokilveLokilve No, si yo también estoy en contra del régimen actual, el capitalismo es basura, no obstante el fascismo era todavía peor.
si... con Franco llego la posguerra y miles de muertos por hambre. Un fascista, un cobarde y un genocida
Awesome, Thank You! Please do one about War of Paraguay: 1864 - 1870
I don't know how they were informed to make this video, but I am Spanish and I can assure you that the total casualties were 500,000 to 600,000.
Viva España Saludos Desde México
Somos La Unión Hispana
Feliz Año Nuevo 🇲🇽🤝🇪🇦
@@MarcelinoHernandezMartin-xe7dfde rodillas ante mi bandera Tarzán 🇪🇸
No fueron ni la mitad
@@rebellious88Payaso
The figure of 500-600K mean only the total number of KILLED (both troops and CIVILIANS).
Global averages in wars are quite consistent and state that KILLED people account for only 20% of victims.
Therefore, you need to multiply 500,000 by 80 (= 4,000,000) or 600 by 80 (=4,800,000) to include the WOUNDED (both troops and CIVILIANS) who were also VICTIMS.
This gives you a range of 500,000 killed + 4,000,000 wounded = 4,500,000 VICTIMS to 600,000 killed + 4,800,000 wounded = 5,400,000 VICTIMS.
Now, in 1936 the total population of all of Spain was 24,810,000 people (100%).
The total number of victims in the Civil War years (1936-1939, not including the terrible starvation and deprivation victims of the postwar years) is therefore a range of 18.14% to 21.77%.
To put that in perspective, during WW2 the country with the highest percentage of victims was Poland, with a record 17% of population (and the efforts of the very efficient Nazi machine, and the less efficient but more brutal Soviet machine).
This makes the Spanish Civil War MUCH MORE BRUTAL than WW2. And in a shorter timespan. Without the huge military numbers involved in WW2.
It is scientifically IMPOSSIBLE that the "total casualties" (I suppose you mean indeed both killed and wounded) could ever be "just" 500,000 or 600,000. We both know that the number of "1,000,000" dead was roughly the double of the real number, and it served both the propaganda of the defeated Republicans and of the triumphant Francoists.
But I thought the 50/50 split in land control happens on day 1 of the Spanish Civil War. It says so in hoi4!
Lets say people divided in two, but the revolted army had to came from Morocco, where they had been posted by the gouvernment at the time the coup was planified
Hoi isn't that inaccurate for a long time except the stupid anarchist uprising that ruin everything. But the starting borders are kinda accurate and the position of international support. That being said economy is very inaccurate as republic should be waaaaaay stronger in that regard but nationalists start only a little bit weaker and after taking Bilbao they are actually stronger industrial wise.
HOI4 thinks Vikund Quisling was able to muster a large army and navy while also taking complete control of Oslo hours into the German invasion of Norway. Paradox makes fantasy games.
@@dillonhunt1720 Paradox forgot about Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939 and forget that Warsaw wasnt captured in quick raid and that it was held until the last days of war while being totally encircled and cut off from anything and that Poland didnt surrender right away after losing it like France which is ruled by Blum because they forgot about Daladier and many more.
@@aulus3792 dude not everything has to be historial how the fuck is poland gonna hold out while i do 40 cas damage and have 2 medium tank template heading to warsaw
¡VIVA FRANCO!
Que pena leer esto
es lo que hay...
para eso di el malo supremo que engloba a todos, viva dark Vader,,por ejemplo.
asi quedas como el mas machote.
no has indicado los bandos, pero te has equivocado de colores, los republicanos suelen asociarse más al color rojo
es que, en este tipo de animaciones, los agresores se representan de color rojo, y los agredidos, son representados con el color azul
@@rollingline7187
Pués también te has equivocado. Los agresores comenzaron siendo los socialistas en el 34.
The fact that bro know exactly how much troops there was in a single day then changed that for 1 frame is insane
If the Republic won the war. I couldn't imagined how communist Spain will interact with USSR in the cold war after WW2 ended
Spain wouldve been devastated by WW2 had the Republic won. Franco was able to keep Spain neutral and rebuild
@@miliba Neutral? he sent troops to fight URSS along the nazis
@@masfishing3614indeed but still if spain was communist im sure the nazis would have invaded and ravaged the country. Also those troops he sent were officially "volunteers" because Spain was technically "neutral" even if Franco had sympathies for the Nazis
Republic wasnt communist but they didnt have any other ally that tried to help them in any way. You may never heard of it but 2nd biggest "ally" of the republic was probably Poland which was selling outdated equipment, that's how bad the situation was for them. If the republic would win they would try to cut off soviet influence.
@@aulus3792 at the beginning it was quite plural, but at the end of the war everything was controlled by people and ideas close to the USSR. The dissolution of the "milicias populares" and the creation of the "Ejército Popular de la República", and the repression against anarchists and parties considered "lukewarm" or Trotskyists was the turning point that led to this.
I'm Spanish and I think it's a great job. I think many of my fellow citizens, especially the younger ones, should watch this video. There is a lot of ignorance and double standards when it comes to telling this horrible civil war.
The republicans were godless nun raping subhumans
FRANCO, saved Spain from being the Second COMMUNIST Country in Europe along with ROMANIA.
Horrible proxy* civil war. And the pattern for many to come.
España una, España grande, España libre
@@patag2677 los nietos de los rojos que no se pudieron matar, nunca os daremos tregua ni paz.
Request: Lebanese Civil War 🇱🇧 (1975-1990) + nice video btw
@user-mz4ld1hn5z Of course there is
@user-mz4ld1hn5zlmao
It was wild
@user-mz4ld1hn5z They took in a lot of Muslim refugees, who decided that the country would be a lot nicer if it were an Islamic state.
Crazy how at the end of the war is when is the bloodiest for the losing part
Franco didn't take prisoners. He directly killed them. Also after war
The Italians really helped out Franco's Forces. The were at the Assault Forefront when big maneuvers happened, and one of the many reasons Italy performed less in WW2 was because italy was bankrupt from supporting and supplying Nationalist Spain, and needed a lot more time to refurbish the Nation's Economy and Army.
By 1938 80% of soldiers in the Italian CTV were spanish so they weren't that ''helpful''
Hahaha. The Italians where mocked by the Nationalist side (Franco's) themselves because of their cowardice. Look up for the Battle of Guadalajara. There are even jocking couplets dedicated to them
My granddather fought with nationalist as a young captain and he said italians would here a shot and run away quickly. They never saw it as their war
Where did you hear that? Italians barely participated on air bombing campaings, they took advantage of the war as a training platform for their novel air force.
Los alemanes también apoyaron al bando nacional (fascistas) de hecho probaron todos sus nuevos "juguetes" en España, justo antes de que "empezara" la ll.G.M
Destacar que el golpe de Estado de julio de 1936 contra la Segunda República española comenzó en Melilla el 17 de julio de 1936 y de allí se extendió al Protectorado español de Marruecos y a las Islas Canarias, quedando también ambos territorios en zona franquista. Fue clave el puente aéreo entre el Protectorado y las provincias de Cádiz y Sevilla para trasladar las tropas coloniales de Marruecos a la Península para marchar hasta Madrid.
No sé si llamarlo "golpe de estado". Dos años antes hubo otro parecido del PSOE contra el gobierno republicano legítimamente elegido (no como en las elecciones de febrero del 36) y ha pasado a la historia como "Revolución de Asturias". Como dice el dicho: o todos moros...
Fue una revolución contra la tiranía de la República de izquierdas.
Gracias a Dios por el levantamiento contra la inmundicia comunista.
@@Christian-rb8wkMenudos patriotas, matando a medio millón de españoles y hundiendo el país
Pues esperese que estemos en el día del Gran Juicio, allí en ese día será el 2-0...
Mis abuelos tuvieron que emigrar a Venezuela durante la guerra y no pudieron volver hasta que murió Franco y aun después, vivieron con miedo el resto de sus vidas por temor a que les vinieran a buscar a sus casas cualquier noche mientras dormían para asesinarlos. Es por eso que odio tanto a los políticos que tenemos ahora que solo piensan en dividir a la población. Esa guerra no la ganó nadie y parece que algunos todavía no se han dado cuenta. España es un país muy bonito pero su gente es tóxica.
Not my feelings of actually living in Spain. I can compare it to the Dutch, where I originally come from. The Dutch are much more racist and xenophobe than the average Spanish person. However, yes, there are complete idiots. I mean, look at what they are doing now against the democratically chosen and wise PM Pedro Sanchez. It's a big disgrace! But. They shouldn't talk and complain if the Catalans will push for independence if there would come an extreme right wing government in Madrid. I will fully support the Catalan cause. Without a doubt! Even though I prefer Real Madrid over FC Barcelona 😂
Ahora los socialistas españoles están robando en maletas el oro de Venezuela, como en su día lo hicieron con el de España. El socialismo no cambia nunca.
Spanish civil war was prelude to the World War II.
Thanks for doing my country!
Italy: *”I’ll just help a teeny tiny bit”*
Spain won, but spain lost.
Why does 2:19 sound familiar
En España en la epoca de la republica no era todo color rosa. Quemaron vivos a un monton de personas por el simple hecho de ser catolicos, quemaron iglesias, obras de arte, se hicieron presos politicos y ya ni te digo la situcion economica como estaba. No soy franquista pero vivi en la epoca de el y puedo decir que se vivia con miedo pero podiamos dejar la llave de casa por fuera de la puerta metida y nunca pasaba nada. Haz esas cosas ahora mismo y te ves a 10 islamistas en tu casa
Well said
Spain won 40 years of peace
@@javichoke You clearly don't know much history about Spain if your key takeaway is, Spain won 40 years of peace... Considering they didn't win it, the world let them have the peace, the alternative was, forcefully removing Franco's regime. They lived in outcast from Europe for over a decade until the rise of the cold war.
What i found amazing is at the start of the war, the nationalists were at a 1:3 disadvantage, still they held strong and made more casualties. Does anyone know how this difference in quality of troops can be explained?
Franco and his supporters came from a more military background and there was a lot of infighting between the republican side (communists, socialists, anarquists...) while the nationalists had more of a common goal, but there is probably more nuance than this.
@@scabrous makes some sense, thanks for replying
The army supported the Nationalist, the republican army was built of civilians, so they had no experience at all,. In the other hand, Francl's army had experience due to the different conflicts in Africa
La historia que escribieron los vencedores dice una cosa, pero la realidad es que sectores capitalistas extranjeros apoyaron al bando franquista, por no hablar de la familia march que hoy sigue siendo la mas poderosa de españa en la sombra.
Hoy españa tiene vendidos todos sus recursos estratégicos al extranjero, y lo único que tenemos es sol y deuda al BCE→ BPI
Si, las brigadas internacionales ayudaron a la republica, el mayor problema era que tampoco tenian experiencia alguna, pues eran todos voluntarios. La Republica tuvo que crear un ejercito desde 0, mientras q el bando sublevado se levanto con la ayuda del ya existente.@@dsl5693
Truly bloody war. Happy Spain is having some better times now.
They are the verge of another
@@pygmy. yes but it is much better now.
@@neryxax Still major division. Look at whats happened recently.
@@pygmy. what happened
@@flame-ry7ps The founder of VOX was shot and Socialist and Catalonian separatists are working together... again
Great video. Keep going. Viva la Spania.
La Spania 💀
What fucking language even is that
The English woke language makes me sick 🤢🤮😷
Imagine being the Portugese during this war. A bloody Civil War is happening literally just next door and there's nothing you can do but just wait it out and hope it doesn't spill over to Portugese land on accident (misfired rocket for example).
Curioso que Portugal apoyara de forma monetaria a franco ya que en Portugal tenía una dictadura fascista
@@Rodklavierthat's why it shown portugal in red shade similiar to the nationalist
En q momento portugal fue fascista? No confundan autoritario y fascista
portugal wasnt fascist, it was totallitary@@Rodklavier
@@hotman_pt_ fine fine i retracted sorry
3:48 What is happening to Mussolini's hand 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
"my hand is an helicopter, your arguments are invalid"
Joke aside in italy that hand gesture means irritation and "to had enough" to the counterpart arguments
No le pasa nada, solo es italiano 🤌🖖🫴✋🖖🫳🫳🫳🖖🫳👌🫴🤌🫰✋🫰✋🫰🤘🤙👇👈👇👈👇🫵👏☝️
@@pabloperezfernandez5877the funniest thing about this message is when TH-cam auto translates if the emojis just dissolve into the message
even funnier at x2 speed
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YEAH!!!!
No Russian flags on republican side?
No nazi flags on Franco side
@ambakaro only one nazi flag 💀
Amazing video, so well put together, thank you!
1:50 - 2:35
Mussolini kann besser Deutsch sprechen als unsere Außenministerin.
Hoi4 lied to us; where are the anarchists and carlists 💀
The carlists fought with the nationalists and the anarchists fought with the republicans. there’s actually even more groups that existed that aren’t even on Hoi4
Hi, could you make a tutorial how to make a video like this?
Well, the advance of the Franco's army was from South to North, Badajoz es the first battle and was attacked by the army from Africa, not as the video, you forgot the battle of Toledo and Guadarrama battle in the south of Madrid also Teruel was a subleved city, was taken by Republic's army and retaken by Franco, in the North also are mistakes and so, well it is difficult
Deberíais haber puesto los colores al revés, habría sido más intuitivo, porque La República utilizaba el Rojo y los Nacionales el Azul.
Los nacionales sería más bien el gris que se asocia más al fascismo. El azul representa más bien a los partidos modernos de derecha democrática.
Congratulations for your map.
2:05 Bro Trying to be H1tler 💀
maybe because he is an axis power
I know because Fascist Spain rebelled against the Republican Spain i think
Well he was a fascist who also spoke some German...
Which one? Because the 1936-1939 was was the *SIXTH* Spanish Civil War!!!!!
The video is about the 4th Carlist War.
hoy en día se puede entender perfectamente porque los Nacionales se alzaron contra la segunda republica
No, no se puede entender. Fue un acto criminal.
no sabes nada de historia
@neko_Rubii criminal es el gobierno democrático español. 😂
Es gibt hier keine Quellenbelege für das was gezeigt wird. Ich würde gerne wissen, woher die Zahlen stammen. Klar das meiste davon lässt sich einfach prüfen, aber so genaue Zahlen, zu Daten und Positionen. Das findet man nicht so einfach und verlässlich. Also wo sind die Quellen?
los colores utilizados en los dos bandos deberían estar invertidos. Rojo para el republicano y azul para el sublevado.
Eso mismo pensé yo, y supongo que muchos otros españoles que vean el vídeo. Por lo visto, el autor suele identificar al bando atacante en rojo y al defensor en azul
Tampoco sería el azul el color adecuado para representar el bando sublevado, ya que al fascismo le representa mucho mejor el color gris.
(aunque pensándolo bien, el color azul también podría encajar por eso de los "camisas azules" de la Falange y porque es el color opuesto del rojo)
@@rafahernandez6015 en España yo siempre he visto color azul para el bando nacional y rojo para el bando republicano, se hace muy raro verlo de al revés
Hay algunos errores.
El avance hacia Toledo, se hace desde Talavera (sur-oeste). No desde el norte. Y se hace en septiembre de 1936. No en octubre.
Cool video! As I’m Spanish I need to express how funny/unfortunate the choice of colours is from my perspective. To represent the side of Nationals you could find better than red. 😅
It's a NATO thing.. Red for attackers, blue for defenders.
(I know, it's a civil war.. I guess "attackers" are the ones going to change the regime, opposed to the ones that wanted to keep it).
De todas la vida se llamó, rojos o azules. No es porque el autor del vídeo quiso poner ese color.
@@user-ig3il9wh2l están los colores al revés inculto
@@user-ig3il9wh2l Pero aquí están intercambiados los colores; de ahí el comentario.
@@sirsancti5504 Para identificar a atacantes y defensores en este vídeo, no hace falta recurrir a argumentos políticos, sino solo visuales. Los atacantes son los que avanzan victoriosos, y los defensores los que retroceden.
That's an amazing disaster
To outnumber your opponent 3 to 1 and still lose
The fascist side had most of the proffesional army and the best troops (the army of Africa). The republican side survived the coup thanks to the movilization of trade unions militias.
The sergeants of the Army were supporting Whites even more ardently than the generals! The chevalry was White.
And yes, the Reds were mobilising the most trade unions.
So the numerical disproportion of 1936 was not so drastic: trade union columns without adequate sergeants and corporals against the systematic army and gendarmerie.
When you break down a war to just numbers then yeah maybe you could come to that conclusion, however in reality the fascists had military support from basically the entirety of the axis
@@Yemadas it's nationalist not fascist
@@ajik-ruijiesame thing. When your best friends are Hitler and Mussolini then you're a fascist.
After the ww2 the proxy war between ussr and the west moved to Greece as a civil war
And that’s how Spain Invaded Spain
Or how a fascist genocide regime took control of the country for fourty years
@@feelcycling nope the republicans committed genocide
You mean this is how Spain liberated itself
@@davidlopez6703 yes
@@feelcyclingCry about it commie
Descansen en paz todas esas almas. Es triste que nos hubiéramos matado entre hermanos. Y parece que no aprendemos porque cada día nos noto más cerca de otra guerra civil. Un español matando a otro español es muy triste.
the fact that Spain reunited in first of April makes me feel that there's something the government is hiding
Thats because they countries usually unite on the first of the month, The German Empire formed on January 1st
April 1st... wow, Spain.
*18th of january
@@hungolian-warrior bro the joke is April fools 😭
3:47 Hand Mussolini helicopter
Sometimes the good guys win
Franco was bad guy nationalists commited more crimes than anarchists and popular fromt
@@YellowPotatoEaterThat's not true.
It was the other way around
@@YellowPotatoEater anarchist don't exist as a legit form of governance. It's the lack of governance
Es curioso que al bando republicano lo pinten de azul, y al bando nacional de rojo ... se nota que no lo ha hecho un español ...
Sorry I dont speak spanish but why would you call them republicans if they were straight up communists?
En este tipo de mapas suelen pintar al bando agresor de rojo y al agredido de azul. Pintándolo por ideologías sería más bien el bando republicano de rojo y el fascista de gris (tampoco de azul, que el azul representa más bien a la derecha democrática mientras que el gris se asocia más al fascismo)
@@neko_Rubii Bueno, alejándonos del azul que actualmente adopta el liberalismo conservador (PP), en aquella época el azul bien podría representar, al menos, a una parte del bando nacional, como a los falangistas y sus camisas azules.
@@eldariontelcontar278 Sí, también lo he pensado después, cuando se me vino a la cabeza los "camisas azules" de la Falange, así que sí, tienes razón, el azul puede representar bien el bando nacional (además que el azul es el color opuesto al rojo)
My grandpappy fought in the civil war as one of the protestors
War sucks, but this channel is fucking awesome.
If you want to know how was Spain in July, 1936, pls look at current Venezuela. This can help you to understand what happened
You missed the battle of Teruel. The front lines are not really correct around that area anyway.
Teruel doesn't exist
4:30 wow I did not know color TVs existed in 1938
I dont know if this is a joke, but its an edited version
@@Lite-tv7vv bro it was a joke man
@@ImmanuelChai the amount of stupid people on internet destroyed my faith
Why do people always limit their commentary on the Civil War as a preparation to WW2? It sure was thatz but its effects are much greater in the war itself, not the fact that it was a precursor to WW2. This war led to a 40 year dictatorship and changed the country forever. People in Spain today think in some way or another about the war and Franco pretty much every day. Spain today is completeley shaped by the Civil War, and that's by far the most important effect
But how? Looking from the other side of Europe seems like Franco had this regime, that lasted while he lived, and after then nobody cared about continuing it because the whole francoism didnt make sense anymore. This civil war seemed to me totally unnecessary, the best thing that you got a ticket to watch WW2 as a spectator, but it was not a free ticket. I think in the long run it didnt matter which side won this war.
Is it completely shaped by Franco and the Nationalists, though? I feel like that whole era fell apart quite hard. Obviously there's always impact on the future as with anything, but I think the bigger question is what if they'd lost instead? What would Spain have been like then and today?
@@maynardburger most probably, a Communist puppet.
The Republic was just a joke, and nobody cared for being "democratic" in that time. In fact, that government, "the Republic" himself, was pushed by also a "coup d'etat" too, so was normal that all ended in fire.
@@varkonyitibor4409Unfortunately the effects of Franco's regime have not remained mere historical tales, but have completely shaped the state of modern Spain. It all goes back to Franco's plan for Spain after his death: he ensured Spain would become a monarchy (without public approval), had a right wing cabinet lead the creation of the Constitution (which largely remains intact today and is notoriously hard to modify) and much of the Francoist era imagery, symbolism and such has only begun to be taken down recently. Francoism is still firmly engraved in many Spanish people's minds.
My great grandfather fought in the battle of ebre. And survived to live 50 years more in incognito ( he was a jewish republican )
Sometimes you have to give it to the people who want it more. The republican forces just flopped over and took it, despite outnumbering the fascists 3 to 1 and the fact they had all these foreign volunteers and support.
The Fascists also received a ton of support from Germany and Italy.
And other than the USSR many other countries were reluctant to help since the republicans were communists
The allies didn't give enough. The Soviets tried but without French intervention or UK it was basically a hopeless cause. Add in the Republicans infighting with liberal parties and the anti communism and yeah they basically got dusted. They should not have lost this war.
1:50 Fun fact about Mussolini: he was fluent in italian, german, and french because he received education in switzerland
The spanisch civil war is a canon event
😓😭😭We are repeating history. my grandparents died in this war
wich side?
Que mas da de que bando sean mameluco
Mapping gets better everyday
Hey bro pls make a video of the napoleonic wars
nice video
🎉🎉you are first🎉🎉
@germanyinanutshell4313 ?
Epico
So, are you tell me that 2 months later WWII started?
What did you just see, Lisa?
well done Franco
last fachist on europe
@@Xolelin what does the fascist mean? Anyhow , he beat the commies.
@@francofrancisco1981they weren't communists, they were republicans, don't be ignorant. And fascism in simple terms means ultranationalism, so basically eat, breathe, piss and shit for your nation, a made up concept not worth dying for. This is not what life is about. And Franco took that away from too many people. Also, I like the name Franco, it's been demonized because of the demon who had this name, but it can mean a lot of different things, and if it's not tied to that demon, I think it's a beautiful name.
@Gatamic They were. They literally went to Spanish Churches to massacre priests and nuns. This is well documented thanks to the spooky Fascist winning. Stop downplaying
"Kssssk"
"nationalist spain declared war on republican spain "
"What will this mean for Spain?"
Every hoi4 player memorises this by heart
¡Viva España!
🇺🇸❤️🇪🇸❤️🇻🇦
Vatican wtf
Pero sin fachas y sin progres
@@caienlosbackrooms...3204 hay menos progres en España que palomas
Viva España libre de socialismo 🫡
Solo la de España las demas sobran
Showing major Spanish cities would give this more relevance.
The nationalist tried to take Madrid many times, especially at the end of 1936 but failed.This prolonged the war and made it much bloodier.