Tell me about Spain before the Spanish Civil War. Who were

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Pls help me understand this seemingly meaningless war.

Bane?

Well, you see son, when a boy bee loves a girl bird something magical happens

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>>127422954
>not having a meaningless war to keep things interesting

>>127423619
Mexicans would know a lot about stupid wars, right? Don't you friends ever feel bad for killing each other?

>>127424059
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_war
>muh ancient traditions!

>>127424201
But why?

>>127424252
cus shits so boring without the chon and the rest of the webz. You might as well start killin eachother for fun

>>127424252
for the glory of Quetzalipochtliwtfayylmao of course!

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>>127421920
It was basically monarchist nationalist Catholics vs commie libtard government.

>>127424509

ketsal cooouaataalll

you mexicans and ur feathered dragons never fail to give me the giggles. i like fucking ur women and I love ur laid back 3rd world culture. thank you mexico bro, i will visit ur country often. hope u like ur neighbors up north

The Spanish Civil War is actually one of the coolest conflicts that ever happened.

Spain's Republic was a complete fucking mess, it made Weimar look good by comparison. Maybe it's cause the Spanish left did NOT get subtle subversion the way the German, American or British left did.
Instead of doing stuff like making films that had marxist themes the Spanish socialists just sort of chimped hard and started murdering priests. It was a complete shit show.

The right were in power when the commies started doing this, so they sent in military men to crush the living shit out of the leftist rebels, then the left decided "we really gotta stop these nationalists" and decided to band together with groups they normally hate (centre-leftists, centrists, "republicans") in the next elections.

They won, and the fear on the right was that they'd go even harder than they already did when they murdered the priests while they weren't in power. Turns out they were somewhat right.

The right initiated a military rebellion against the left and republican "Popular Front", and the whole thing was brutal af. Commies raping nuns, Nationalists starving commies in their cities

The Germans and Italians sent their armies to support Franco, and the Soviets put in a some nice, limpdicked effort to stop them.

The Americans and the Brits stayed out of the conflict because they preferred the fascists, but didn't want to look partisan or get their hands dirty.

>>127424628
Yes, I know that much, but what caused the war? Who was in the "right?" Can you recommend any books or films about it?

>>127424509
I forever envision thicc dragons now...

Thanks Japon.

>>127424742
You really shouldn't look at these things to find who was in the "right", dude. But if you musts, pick one:
>Nationalists were in the wrong because they rebelled against a democratically elected government
>Nationalists were in the right because commies spilt first blood in their earlier rebellion

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>>127424729
VIVA FRANCO, VIVA!!!

>>127424729
>Instead of doing stuff like making films that had marxist themes the Spanish socialists just sort of chimped hard and started murdering priests.
You forgot that they tried to make a revolution in 1934.

>>127424742
>Can you recommend any books or films about it?
Look for books by Stanley G. Payne. In particular you can read "The Collapse of the Spanish Republic, 1933-1936: Origins of the Civil War"

>Yes, I know that much, but what caused the war?
The spark that initiated it was the assassination of José Calvo Sotelo, a right wing politician by the Guardia de Asalto (some kind of police force). But the deep roots are, like always "the left push the right more to the right and right push the left more to the left".

Also, in the 1936 election a "Popular front" won the elections (well, technically "stole" the election. The acting president Portela Valladares gave them the control of the government before the counting of the votes ended, so they altered it in their favour) and they decide that the police doesn't have the obligation of stopping the crimes committed by leftists. So, you can imagine.... The idea in the government was "the right will revolt and we will crush them rightfully".

>>127421920
>Who were the CNT, and what did they do to spark a civil war?
Anarchists, I think that answers both questions.