30/10/2022
With a left-leaning Republican government aligned with anarchists and communists on one side and Conservative, Royalist, Nationalist, Catholic interests on the other side, things were bound to get ugly. A British-led policy of international non-intervention allowed General Franco (supported by N**i Germany and Fascist Italy) to emerge victorious in 1939, plunging Spain into an authoritarian dictatorship until 1975. Great.