(check my playlists to watch all of this series) Spanish Civil War: Prelude to tragedy - 1931-36. Produced by Granada Television. Rare archival film and eyewitness accounts. Revolution, counter-revolution, and terror; Battleground for idealists; Franco and the Nationalists; The revolution; Victory and defeat. ~
Interviewees: Alvaro Delgado (Young Republican), Justino De Azcarate (Under-secretary of Justice), Narciso Julian (Socialist Worker), Timoteo Ruiz (Peasant's Son), Manuel Vazquez Guillen (Land Laborer), Felix Moreno De La Cova (Landowner), Jose Jevgara (Land Reform Official), Pilar Primo De Rivera, Marcel Giro (Catalan Autonomist), Manuel Diez Alegria (Army Officer), Frederica Montseny (Anarchist Leader), Socrates Gomez (Socialist Youth), Manuel Montequin (Asturian Miner), Dolores Ibarruri ('La Pasionaria,' Communist M.P.), Tomas Garicano Goni (Army Officer, Emissary for Mola), Ramon Serrano Suner (Franco's Brother-in-Law), Captain Bebb (Freelance Pilot), Alfredo Leon Lupion (Assault Guard Officer), Juan Manuel Molina (Anarchist Militant), Josep Tarradellas (Minister in Catalan Government).
People: King Alfonso the Thirteenth, Federico Lorca, General Francisco Franco, General José Sanjurjo, the CNT-FAI, Benito Mussolini and the Fascist Party, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, the Nationalist Socialist Party of Germany, José Calvo Sotelo, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, General Emilio Mola, Francisco Largo Caballero, Lieutenant José Castillo, Indalecio Prieto, Casares Quiroga.
Places: Belchite, Barcelona in Catalonia, Bilbao in the Basque Country, Andalusia, Astorias, Estremadura, Madrid, Pamplona in Navarre, Spanish Morocco.
Anyone know the name of the song in the begining?
Castillaleon19 6 months ago
The factions are remarkably similar to the various factions at odds in the United States now. The difference is the USA has a constitutional republic, not a democracy. There are safeguards in the USA against a democracy becoming "mob rule" which is what happened in Spain.
matildaz 6 months ago
@swfcocs1
Catholic Church in Spain was involved with any movement that was not hostile to Catholic Church.
There were Catholic trade-unions, Catholic schools, Catholic hospitals and so on. Even Orwell mentioned it in "Homage to Catalonia".
Most ardent Nationalist soldiers were common farmers and workers from the north of Spain, Navarre esp.
Millions of common Spaniards were radicalised by the PF's abuse of power and discrimination. The result was civil war.
bielarus 9 months ago
@bielarus The catholic church in Spain was deeply involved in the rightist movement from the outset of class conflict many years before the war.They became identified as part of the enemy by the workers and peasants as they conspired to stop the appalling social conditions in Spain from improving.They campaigned against education for the masses and against union rights.When you pick a side you will be percieved as an enemy.Some priests did help the people but this was a small minority
swfcocs1 9 months ago
@swfcocs1
PF government abused its authority at will in spring 1936 - several months before the Uprising.
That is why the opposing half of the Spanish population (National Front gathered _at least_ 45% of votes) became increasingly alienated and radicalised.
Catholics could not be fond of government openly protecting church-burners and looters. They felt themselves absolutely not protected. But at the same time the hierarchy of Catholic the Church in Spain supported the uprising only in 1937.
bielarus 9 months ago
@swfcocs1
Any democratically elected government can became a dictatorship if it abuses its authority and breaks the lawful rights of the minority.
That the case of leftists in 1936 - read "Collapse of the Spanish Republic" of Stanley Payne - most sourced and deep research of this topic.
Yes, both sides killed many, but I don't understand why slaughter of leftists is worse than slaughter of Christians. At least Nationalists did not kill people for their faith.
bielarus 9 months ago
THE GREEKS BORN THE HUMANITY
@swfcocs1 DEATH TO judas FUCKING jewish WORM
unfukkkmee 9 months ago
@unfukkkmee nobody is arguing about Greeces contribution to democracy,culture or art,but you speak of democracy then spout off about the jews! Also,writing in CAPITAL LETTERS doesn`t help convince people,it makes you sound like a screaming fascist.
swfcocs1 9 months ago
@swfcocs1 STOP THE NIGHTMARE JEWISH PROPAGANDA ASSHOLE. THE MOST FASCISTS OF THE WORLD ARE JEWS AND SLAVS THE JEWS HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IS DEMOCRACY WHY THE GREEKS CREATED THE DEMOCRACY. OK ? LISTEN BARBRIAN LEADER OF FASCISM LISTEN NOW THE TALMUD SPEAKS BADLY AGAINST GREECE
unfukkkmee 9 months ago
@farmerne I`ve seen the lincoln documentary and the analysis is correct.The betrayal of the Spanish republic by the western allies was the first act of appeasement of fascism and nazism leading up to WW2
swfcocs1 9 months ago