How Democracies Implode - The Spanish Civil War (Part 1)

What were the causes of the Spanish Civil War? This is the first in a two-part series on the conflict.
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The Spanish Civil War began in 1936, waged between the Spanish Republicans and the Spanish Nationalists. The roots of this war go back decades. It was part of a broader reckoning in early 20th century Europe between various competing ideologies - republicanism, monarchism, communism, fascism, anarchism, and more. In Spain's case, Catholicism and anti-clericalism also played a major role. Leaders such as Francisco Franco, Manuel Azana, Gil Robles, and more arose to lead their respective factions in a battle for supremacy.
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[@PaxTubeChannel]

If you'd like to support the channel, please share this video! Small channels like mine grow by word of mouth. Hope you all enjoyed Part I! Part II is coming soon. Also a few slight self-corrections in the video regarding King Alfonso: He was the XIII, not the VIII, and he didn't abdicate the throne (just fled the country).

[@thattimestampguy]

I enjoyed it for how well made it is (sound quality. Imagery. Detail, presentation) Although it’s really a human, real human tragedy that happened 100-90 years ago

[@bryan3754]

I really enjoy videos like this, but it might be useful to include your sources for the information in the description.

[@JMObyx]

Greetings, I think now is a very relevant time to enter the discussion on NFTs and whatnot, it would get you some decent traffic. If you already have, then good on you!

[@LavaCreeperPeople]

Religion, twittcrap, and v tubers suck Cope, seethe, mald

[@tobrukasmarduk7732]

0:39 What movie is this scene from, please?

[@TheThreatenedSwan]

People try to argue the Republican government wasn't that radical when they had giant posters of Lenin and Stalin put up in Madrid

[@noctiskuzunoha4059]

Probably the most psychopath leaders of all time, only being surpassed by Mao Tes Tung, but being honest now day, we have more epople even worse than any of them.

[@romanianhustler3309]

Jewish commis

[@tobrukasmarduk7732]

Spain saved itself: it was the only country in Western Europe, along with Finland, not to need the Marshall Plan, not to need Anglo-American troops, let alone Soviet ones. No one blames Finland for defending itself against the red communist threat. But they blame Franco's Spain Spain (Blue Division) and Finland invaded the USSR in 1941: both returned Stalin's visit. Anarchists, seoaratists and Trotskyists aside, the 'republican' troops that Franco faced was the Red Army (Soviet commissars, generals). If the 'Republica' had won, Hitler's Blitzkrieg would have turned against Red Spain in 1940. Franco saved the country from complete destruction. Spain inaugurated with the Discoveries who inaugurated the European Era and globalization. France (greater material and hegemonic power in Europe), England, Ottoman Empire, Protestants, Dutch Calvinists (Spain dominated the Netherlands) pirates of the Atlantic and Mediterranean, discover, conquer and organize the world. Spain's disgrace begins in the 19th century and then culminates in continuous civil wars (unlike other European countries, Spain did not have civil wars) The nationalists did not fight against "republicans" but against populist fronts (Popular Front of socialists, separatists, communists) that had already attacked and destroyed the Republic from within (in the essay of Revolution in 1934 and in the electoral frauds of 1936. The PSOE (socialist party ) was the main agent in the destruction of republican legality, which caused the Civil War. The Francoist dictatorship was a response to an extraordinary crisis, a non-totalitarian dictatorship, a relatively small state, a market economy, with a lot of individual freedom (paradoxically more than today with laws to control the individual, education, Woke cancel culture. Unfortunately, Franco was only defeated by those he had saved from the Red genocide: the Catholic Church of the Second Vatican Council approached the Reds, destroying itself, and delegitimized the regime, even supporting Basque terrorists. Franco's Catholic Spain was prosperous. Current Spain is threatened with balkanization and degeneration.

[@xeroxsaw1303]

It’s a bit more nuanced than this. Its true that some parties like the PCE and some sectors of the socialist parties aligned themselves with the Soviets even before the civil war. However, the republic itself wasn’t a communist state by any means. Quite the opposite in fact. Parties like the CEDA and Lerroux’s Radical Party (which was actually moderate, contrary to it’s misleading name) were very much right wing. There were also other right wing parties who supported the Republic such as Niceto Alcala’s. The problem was that the extremists, as per usual, ended up being the loudest and most conflicting

[@jonathanwilliams1065]

@@xeroxsaw1303those right wing parties’ candidates has a habit of getting assassinated before the first election

[@appliedvirtue7731]

What you find in this is: * Economic turmoil * Two sides, each seeing the other as an existential threat. * One or both sides willing to use violence against the other. * A weak centralized government, unable or unwilling to contain the violence.

[@Ninety-Nine__]

More or less the same happened before every right-wing rise to power, even if it's not as usually intense as it was in Spain.

[@lightzpy8049]

In modern times - cultural weakness being the root of all turmoils. Politically and nationally nations need to grow and or be prideful to survive

[@millennialsecularandauthri3338]

Replace the Church with heteronormative White people and you have the US.

[@user-rl9et5od9g]

@@millennialsecularandauthri3338 seethe and dilate 🤣

[@giovanni4470]

@@Ninety-Nine__ or you know, the russian civil war where the bolsheviks rose to power.

[@davids.m.710]

“ Now that the time is near for me to stand in judgment before God Almighty, I ask that He look kindly upon me since I have striven to live and to die as a good Catholic. It has always been my desire to be a faithful son of the church, in whose bosom I shall die. I ask forgiveness from all, as I give my most heartfelt forgiveness to those who declared themselves my enemy although i did not consider them to be so. ” - Francisco Franco's last words

[@jonathanwilliams1065]

“Since I have striven” It’s a shame that in his last moments he put his trust in his own works, and not in Jesus

[@johnhenderson4490]

​@@jonathanwilliams10654:30 do we not strive? Or do we just default to Jesus sacrifice and not try to do anything worthwhile 🙏🙏

[@michaelbushman2397]

Protestant alert

[@aralskt4319]

The unrest & violence of 2020 in a way resembled the Jaca Revolt in 1931 Spain as well. It was used to break the back of the monarchy and caused support to collapse for King Alfonso XIII. A lot of these republican parties also signed a pledge called “The Pact of San Sebastián” which declared that no right wing parties were allowed to participate in the government and they would use any means necessary to stop them. This is why they revolted in 1934 when CEDA won a majority. Even with a conservative majority, the Spanish left did a lot of things to sabotage their agenda like manipulating rules to prevent CEDA from appointing ministers and not letting them enforce their rollbacks of previous legislation that was unpopular. They only really governed for less than a year in 1935 before new elections were called. Not to mention Soviet agents played a part in destabilizing the country by leading & infiltrating communist groups and other Spanish leftists. A good book that goes over all of this is Stanley Paine’s “Collapse of the Second Spanish Republic 1933-1936.” It became a revolutionary government that had lost legitimacy with the right & far left. Especially when it’s citizens are being murdered and the central authority does nothing or aids in the violence. Can’t imagine why half the military revolted.

[@occam7382]

Well, half the military revolted because they wanted to set up a fascist dictatorship, just like in Japan, but that is an accurate assessment. The 2nd Spanish Republic was horrendously unstable and really needed something drastic to inspire some national unity. What exactly they could've done, that up for debate, but there should've been something they could do to stabilize the country. Also, I should point out, the Pact of San Sebastian did not declare that right-wing parties couldn't participate in government. It declared that the monarchy was to be overthrown, and set up a plan and date for a pro-Republican coup d'etat, which was why the Jaca Revolt occured in the first place. It was the Popular Front, established in 1936, that was meant to contest the right's control over Spain.

[@johnnotrealname8168]

@@occam7382 One can quibble with the fascist label but yes. I think it can be seen as a second Reconquista. The left-wing parties lost all legitimacy when they revolted at right-wing parties getting into power.

[@tobrukasmarduk7732]

Spain saved itself: it was the only country in Western Europe, along with Finland, not to need the Marshall Plan, not to need Anglo-American troops, let alone Soviet ones. No one blames Finland for defending itself against the red communist threat. But they blame Franco's Spain Spain (Blue Division) and Finland invaded the USSR in 1941: both returned Stalin's visit. Anarchists, seoaratists and Trotskyists aside, the 'republican' troops that Franco faced was the Red Army (Soviet commissars, generals). If the 'Republica' had won, Hitler's Blitzkrieg would have turned against Red Spain in 1940. Franco saved the country from complete destruction. Spain inaugurated with the Discoveries who inaugurated the European Era and globalization. France (greater material and hegemonic power in Europe), England, Ottoman Empire, Protestants, Dutch Calvinists (Spain dominated the Netherlands) pirates of the Atlantic and Mediterranean, discover, conquer and organize the world. Spain's disgrace begins in the 19th century and then culminates in continuous civil wars (unlike other European countries, Spain did not have civil wars) The nationalists did not fight against "republicans" but against populist fronts (Popular Front of socialists, separatists, communists) that had already attacked and destroyed the Republic from within (in the essay of Revolution in 1934 and in the electoral frauds of 1936. The PSOE (socialist party ) was the main agent in the destruction of republican legality, which caused the Civil War. The Francoist dictatorship was a response to an extraordinary crisis, a non-totalitarian dictatorship, a relatively small state, a market economy, with a lot of individual freedom (paradoxically more than today with laws to control the individual, education, Woke cancel culture. Unfortunately, Franco was only defeated by those he had saved from the Red genocide: the Catholic Church of the Second Vatican Council approached the Reds, destroying itself, and delegitimized the regime, even supporting Basque terrorists. Franco's Catholic Spain was prosperous. Current Spain is threatened with balkanization and degeneration.

[@rbxless]

CEDA governed for as long as the reformist government, actually: the end of 1933, 1934, 1935 and January and February 1936. Besides, all of this sounds like a conspiracy. Like all of the leftist forces were planning to let CEDA win. No, they were furious.

[@staringgasmask]

@@occam7382 no, the initial supporters of the coup were way way less, Franco was in doubt, not even decided. Then some right wing democrat, leader of the opposition, got kidnapped and murdered by socialist militias. This detonated the coup and the Spanish Civil War, a supposed democracy had just killed an innocent person as political repression, and when people saw democracy was dead, they supported the most favorable dictatorship en masse.

[@intergalactichumanempire9759]

I’m glad to see the Spanish Civil War getting more attention. I wonder how mainstream media will depict it if they ever choose to.

[@ilostthreeaccountstoyoutub1434]

they would obviously depict the nationalists as "evil" and "oppressive"

[@aldoushuxley5953]

@@ilostthreeaccountstoyoutub1434 the communist come to the monasteries and drink tea with the nuns, who then promptly convert to islam. Then, spanish soldiers in the costumes of the communists attack them and r*pe the nuns like the monsters that they are, to frame the pure and innocent commies, who only want to feed the pure. Also, Franco was really a black woman!

[@naiveanon684]

There's not a wealth of videos and media on this subject, but what does exist is overwhelmingly pro-Republican. They ignore and omit the heavy Anarchist/Marxist leanings obviously. Probably because nuns being raped and murdered isn't good PR for an ideology they support.

[@vergildisparda]

@@aldoushuxley5953 except replace the spanish soldiers with conscripts from Morocco

[@romanianhustler3309]

@@vergildisparda all anti Christian revolution are done by Jewish masonery

[@adamhenrywalker]

The Spanish Civil War is truly one of history’s “good vs evil” conflicts; and the good guys won

[@thecriticon7819]

Actually, the guys defending good ideas won, that does not mean they were actually good guys, as in any war, soldiers are often morally blinded by the situation, anyway republicans were bad guys defending bad ideas, Franco army was a mixture of good and bad guys defending good ideas

[@JackHicks]

LOL nope. No good guys in Spanish Civil War.

[@thatsniceyou1557]

@@JackHicks the good guys won. The republicans violated children and women. AND also violated nuns. They dug up priests and nuns bodies and desecrated them. Tell me there is no good vs bad guys when one side does this

[@gratefulguy4130]

True

[@SebastianTuscano]

Buy the republic was more than just comies, also why do u think the nazis where good

[@MrSolus-ls6us]

Me when I see a new Pax video: Oh ya, it's based time!

[@thattimestampguy]

0:00 The Lead-In 1:04 The Questions 1:18 Prelude To The War: Lost Generation, Lost Colonies, Power Away From Monarchies 2:50 Issues 4:30 1923 Miguel Primo De Rivera Coup, 1929 Great Depression 5:08 April 1931 Elections 5:32 Catalonia and Basque Independence Rebellions 6:02 Iron and Steel Production Fall by Double Digits 33 and 50% (1/2) 6:32 Churches Expelled, Women Granted Right To Vote 7:04 Communist Secularism 7:50 Violence 8:12 Army Officers forced to retire. Many Groups now angry. 9:15 Party Up For Power Block 10:01 Strikes and Riots, Rebels vs Government, Elections still going on 10:20 Majority Right-Wing Repeal 10:37 More Strikes Violence and Lawlessness 11:21 Election Day Blood 12:06 "and all it would take was a spark" 12:13 José Calvo Sotelo, January 21, 1930

[@tobrukasmarduk7732]

0:39 What movie is this scene from, please?

[@AroundElvesWatchUrselves96]

Based

[@TheRightCast]

Based

[@grannynorma655]

Cringe

[@AroundElvesWatchUrselves96]

@@grannynorma655 t. Granny

[@zenothemeano4381]

@@AroundElvesWatchUrselves96 Maybe you should google her username if you want to get the joke... Just sayin...

[@AroundElvesWatchUrselves96]

@@zenothemeano4381 multiple accounts.

[@lordnorthumberland277]

The reality is that a Catholic country, like Catholicism itself, is inherently monarchical. There is a specific order to Catholic countries, and when the monarch is either entirely neutered or removed, he is replaced by a vacuum that produces violent conflict after conflict. All of the strongmen that are produced by these countries are pretty much in the shadow of the king's throne. And ultimately that's why Spain and any other Catholic country should not be a democracy - its because unlike Protestants, Catholics do not believe in perpetually negotiating or bartering down differences the same way Protestants do.

[@patrickrooney971]

I've noticed this, protestant countries can have republics with the exception of say britain or the kaisers germany but when you have a homogeneous catholic or orthodox nation any liberty or attempt at secularism or anti clericalism will just result in a war. See Mexico, russia, france and greece

[@supahjadi8944]

Monarchy is biblical aswell.

[@juanisaac5172]

???? So only Protestant countries can be republics? History does not show that. San Marino is Catholic country and also the oldest republic on earth. It became a Republic in 1291 AD. Switzerland has been a Confederation/Republic since 1291. Venice was a Republic from 697 AD to 1797. And if you look at protestant countries like England, Holland, and Sweden they still have kings. Your thesis does not hold.

[@elgoldenresena_arts1478]

⚜️👑🇪🇦

[@desolatortrooper7196]

Your argument is debunked by the existance of France who is Catholic and is a republic. People don't want to come back to a backward regime.

[@TheThreatenedSwan]

The decline of Ireland, Brittany, Catalonia, and the Basque country, once all devout places, are good examples of the perils of having a largely negative identity relative to a larger national group. Now all these places, like Canada to America, express a national identity by being more left wing than their larger neighbors the English, French, and Spanish

[@aldoushuxley5953]

why is it always more left wing though? Why arent there any places like that that do the same but by being more right? Especially if all these places started out as MORE conservative and religious?

[@zaarongaming8174]

@@aldoushuxley5953 Probably because forming your national identity on being different from another nation is itself a symptom of leftism.

[@aldoushuxley5953]

@@zaarongaming8174 Idk, isn't leftism normally about internationalism and big unions? Basically saying "who cares if you are German or French, we are all just humans"

[@Toten1316]

@@aldoushuxley5953 I don’t know about the other two but in Catalonia and the Basque country it was mainly a reaction to the centralist right-wing Spanish nationalism of Francisco Franco. Franco unintentionally destroyed catholicism in those regions by forcibly replacing basque and catalan speaking clergy with a castilian speaking one. Basque and Catalan nationalism were actually right-wing and catholic at first but after decades of having their culture and language repressed by Franco they turned to the left as a way to spite him. It’s pretty sad how Franco mutilated any connection the Basque Country and Catalonia had with Spain…

[@zaarongaming8174]

@@aldoushuxley5953 On the far left there's your communists advocating for open borders and such, but national and democratic socialism both favor some sense of national identity.

[@JpegDotPng]

We love Francisco Franco don’t we folks

[@liamimbriolo6066]

The Chad Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera VS The Virgin Francisco Franco

[@oldgrub]

@@liamimbriolo6066 Presente!

[@Damage_r]

True

[@Ninety-Nine__]

He was a reactionary Catholic with no further ambitions than keeping things still, like Salazar, which usually spells doom in the long end. On the other hand his economic pragmatism (largely based around picking elements from other fascist countries, like the Istituto Nacional de Industria) led Spain to periods of intense growth and a overall modernization of the country. He's a mixed bag, i say.

[@cuber5003]

I do think his some of his good contributions to Spanish economy and the rebuilding of a strong state aren't appreciated enough, but his needlessly bloody crackdowns on intellectuals and the Francoist society's treatment of women just doesn't sit right with me. All and all he just comes out looking like a diet Salazar to me.

[@liamimbriolo6066]

Awesome video, I look forward to the next one. Its a shame you didn't explore Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera and the Falange Española more. Him and his party werr very influential force for the third position. Regardless, keep up the good work and God Bless.

[@PaxTubeChannel]

Don’t worry, he & the Falange will be discussed!

[@liamimbriolo6066]

@@PaxTubeChannel glad to hear it! Take care and know you're doing The Lords work!

[@warthunder9155]

@@PaxTubeChannel 12:42 what movie is this plane from?

[@tobrukasmarduk7732]

​@@PaxTubeChannel 0:39 What movie is this scene from, please?

[@tobrukasmarduk7732]

​@@warthunder9155 the film is called Mientras Dure La Guerra, a balanced film (it still does not show the terror of the 'republicans', reds and separatista), well produced.

[@brightblackgrouse6236]

Pax tube, the kid deserves more than a million subs, a great content creator!

[@malcolmholmes2596]

Ew

[@GLASSMOSCOWANDBEIJING]

​@@malcolmholmes2596I'm glad that you're self-aware

[@chinchin9144]

Can't wait for you to talk about the Carlist faction. Did you know that Infante Alfonso Carlos fought for the Papal states against the Italian Army?

[@getaids7099]

Viva España Arriba España Adelante España

[@odie1973ro]

VIVA FRANCO!

[@windbuster]

@@odie1973roViva Christo Rey!

[@FeHearts]

Alfonso never abdicated. He only went into exile.

[@themsmloveswar3985]

The Franco regime had more in common with military led coups in Latin America than the Totalitarian regimes in Europe.

[@mushussu838]

Yeah, but it's a comparation that is not good, quite a lot of dictatorships in Latin America where very bloody and usually supported by the united states for it's own gain.

[@summonedskull4056]

@@mushussu838 'comparison' not 'comparation', sorry, I hate to be a grammer freak.

[@roman.venica]

@@mushussu838 It's curious that you mention it because I'm confused and still trying to understand why the US supported that much the cue's here in Argentina. But for sure this was a hell before it. Communist terrorists did an average of 8 attacks per day, killed many politicians and even a former president, Aramburu.

[@romanianhustler3309]

@@mushussu838 franco was based

[@tobrukasmarduk7732]

Spain saved itself: it was the only country in Western Europe, along with Finland, not to need the Marshall Plan, not to need Anglo-American troops, let alone Soviet ones. No one blames Finland for defending itself against the red communist threat. But they blame Franco's Spain Spain (Blue Division) and Finland invaded the USSR in 1941: both returned Stalin's visit. Anarchists, seoaratists and Trotskyists aside, the 'republican' troops that Franco faced was the Red Army (Soviet commissars, generals). If the 'Republica' had won, Hitler's Blitzkrieg would have turned against Red Spain in 1940. Franco saved the country from complete destruction. Spain inaugurated with the Discoveries who inaugurated the European Era and globalization. France (greater material and hegemonic power in Europe), England, Ottoman Empire, Protestants, Dutch Calvinists (Spain dominated the Netherlands) pirates of the Atlantic and Mediterranean, discover, conquer and organize the world. Spain's disgrace begins in the 19th century and then culminates in continuous civil wars (unlike other European countries, Spain did not have civil wars) The nationalists did not fight against "republicans" but against populist fronts (Popular Front of socialists, separatists, communists) that had already attacked and destroyed the Republic from within (in the essay of Revolution in 1934 and in the electoral frauds of 1936. The PSOE (socialist party ) was the main agent in the destruction of republican legality, which caused the Civil War. The Francoist dictatorship was a response to an extraordinary crisis, a non-totalitarian dictatorship, a relatively small state, a market economy, with a lot of individual freedom (paradoxically more than today with laws to control the individual, education, Woke cancel culture. Unfortunately, Franco was only defeated by those he had saved from the Red genocide: the Catholic Church of the Second Vatican Council approached the Reds, destroying itself, and delegitimized the regime, even supporting Basque terrorists. Franco's Catholic Spain was prosperous. Current Spain is threatened with balkanization and degeneration.

[@thecriticon7819]

As a Spanish, who's great grandparent fought with the Republicans, I have to say that Nationalist were based. Just to let you know, almost my whole family fought on the red army (In Spain that means the republicans), although media says Franco was the bad guy, the only person in my family who died, was not any of the ones fighting on the republican side, but a catholic priest who was not involved in the war that got tortured and killed by the red army just because he was a priest. the republicans where actually treated decently after the war even when they were savages during the war, Franco was not Hitler, nothing close to it. The good guys won this war.

[@hopelore]

Great video! The Spanish Civil War was always something I was interested in even though in school it was just a footnote in the history books. Later I found out that my great grandfather was a Catholic refugee who came to Puerto Rico with his family. My interest only grew after that, and I still learn new things while studying it. I look forward to the next part!

[@lightningblade9117]

The Chinese civil war after ww2 was kind of similar to this one (though the conclusion was very different fron Spain :/). Would love to hear your take on it.

[@cardozoluciano8362]

That would be a long video.

[@bernardoohigginsvevo2974]

the Spanish nationalists and Chinese nationalists aren't really comparable. The Spanish were local and authentic, the Chinese nationalists were basically just propped up as puppets by liberal Western powers. I think nationalism as a whole would be in a much worse state today if the Maoists had not been successful.

[@barakesmith-washington6946]

astounded by the number of fascists in this comment section

[@bernardoohigginsvevo2974]

@@barakesmith-washington6946 PaxTube is a Catholic Theocrat, so his videos attract a lot of dissident right people

[@ziggytheassassin5835]

I just see it as a historic rule to never compare internal chinese history directly to internal european history. The leaders and movements act so differently they might as well be different species.

[@Carlos271aht]

My grandpa fought the reds in the western Madrid front. He fought against the prosecution of Christians and expropiation of land of the poor little-landlords peasants and the filantropic-used land and structue of the Catholic Church by the red government, helped by the NKVD agents Stalin sent. A lot of fear and repression happened in Spain especially in the last year until the Civil War started. The constant instability and fear of the red revolting as they did in 1934 and 1932 made the people wait for the army to rise at any moment, and end the problems just like in 1923 or in 1871. The army in Spain has been always the regulatory element of politics. Franco was a very loyal and prestigious military that even saved the Spanish Republic from collapse in 1934. Also, he never planned a War, only a coup, that failed because the red government in Madrid armed basically all people to "defend from fascism" and gave free action to all anarchist and socialist syndicates, even the most radical and subversives, making possible the creation of "checas" all over Republican side, that were basically a gulag but without forced-labour and with even more torture. Also, that same recently armed militias was those who made the Paracuellos Massacre. The killing of 6000-10.000 catholics by the red hordes, under the supervision of the later leader of the Communist Party Santiago Carrillo. Even the French goverment sent help to the reds. Well, the story is even more interesting when we talk about Falange and Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, but thats another history that expose a thing: reds always hated the moral values and they didn't bat an eye while assassinating the dissident.

[@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115]

Es hasta posible que mi abuelo paterno hubiese pelado junto al tuyo, amigo. Él dejó todo en Chile para ir a defendeer españa, hasta se enlistó en la División Azul. ¡Viva españa y Viva Evrópa Libre!

[@urhunn7778]

Maximum respect to your grandfather!!! Must be a terrible feeling for a patriotic Spaniard these days, that General Franco's heritage is tossed aside, and Cultural Marxism is everywhere. Its like you won the civil war, but somehow lost the peace on the long run... Please make Spain great again! Greetings from Hungary! General Franco was the only leader in the West who was ready to send troops to help the Hungarian freedom fighters against the Soviet Red Army in 1956! It is not forgotten! Viva España!

[@Carlos271aht]

@@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115 El mio estuvo en la sierra de Guadarrama, ya que su pueblo (y el mio) estaba alli cerca. En la ofensiva de Brunete fue herido pero nada grave. Respetos para tu abuelo!

[@ilostthreeaccountstoyoutub1434]

@@urhunn7778 do you understand why they should have joined the axis, had they fought the allies they would at least be remembered as going down fighting but no the entire civil war was all for nothing traditionalism died in a slow humiliating whimper while italy Germany and japan fought essentially to the death against the whole new world order.

[@Carlos271aht]

@@ilostthreeaccountstoyoutub1434 Yes i agree with you but Franco was very prudent and decided to rebuild the country before throwing the weakened Spanish Army in the fields. He only accepted to create a expeditionary force (the famous Blue Division) of 40,000 voluntaries that protested all over Spain to fight communism this time in the USSR. This was the largest division in Eastern Front and fought very hard in the Leningrad Siege in the Krasny Bor battle.

[@charlesmaximus9161]

I would recommend “The Last Crusade” by Warren Carroll, if you can find it. According to Charles Coulombe, it is now out of print. But I’m sure you can still find used copies floating around out there or borrow it from somebody who might have it.

[@viralvideocenter7870]

I have that book right next to my computer. It is alright, but Carroll does not portray the Falange very well. He focuses too much on the Carlists.

[@pointlessrandom7619]

understandable

[@TyranyFighterPatriot]

Definitely worth a read

[@aldoushuxley5953]

Can you do a video on Salazars Portugal? He was not necessarily fascist, but is associated with Franco, Mussolini and so on often. However, he came into power without violence and generally rules peaceful and without violent opression. And that despite communist forces in the country and the world war etc. Also, unlike the other nationalist states, which did not live long enough to really evaluate their peace time economy, their state really did seem to function and bring the people a good life. To this day, Salazar is remembered by portugese as the greates portugese man in their history, which is interesting, since obviously the memory of Hitler and Mussolini, but even Franco, is very different today. Is Salazars Portugal something we should try to emulate today or was it a relic of its time? And how could these ideas be implemented today?

[@viralvideocenter7870]

Yes. Salazar was the best leader of our time. However, there is one thing that I'm suspicious of. He let Portugal be the founding member of NATO...

[@samuelaliren870]

@@viralvideocenter7870 NATO is code for homosexual occupation. As soon as he died the gay nato instructed military installed a liberal government

[@romanianhustler3309]

@@viralvideocenter7870 nato is based

[@miguelpadeiro762]

Salazar didn't "bring people a good life" We saved the state's economic downturn as he was an economic genius but he was anything but kind to the people. The state he developed was one of two Portugals. The working class and the upper class. One with increased benifits and the other thrown to the dirt. Free thought was OUTLAWED. You either were for the state or a traitor who didn't deserve anything but jail. Political prisoners were sent to concentration camps overseas in the colonies and the secret service PIDE hunted for any deviation on the masses. Suspected "communists", "democrats", "socialists" or the likes (monarchists etc) were arrested on sight and interrogated with fierce torture, even if the suspicious were false, they'd get a confesion one way or another. Speaking of overseas penal colonies, Salazar also thought his stupid pride was more important than the wellbeing of an entire generation. He sent an entire generation of men to die on our colonies and their families left to weep back home just so we could have stupid colonies overseas. Anyone who calls Salazar a fascist isn't knowledgeable enough about the subject. He was not indeed. He was an ultraconservative catholic corporatist. I don't know what you prefer, but I prefer having the power to elect my leader and the leader turning out bad and having to deal with him/her for 5 years rather than being forced to have a bad leader whether I like it or not for life. Democracy is only unstable and miserable if we allow it to be. And we allow it to be by having a completely laughable education system. Democracy depends on educated masses capable of critical thought and seeing through cheap demagogy. Should we follow his steps? No. Personally I value freedom. Not the American style of freedom where "I can doo wadevu I wunt", I mean real freedom. Where we have rights. But each and every single civil right also has a civil duty you have to keep up with.

[@miguelpadeiro762]

​@@romanianhustler3309NATO is a tool to install American influence in Europe. Once Putin's regime falls it will be useless, an European alliance is far more desirable

[@DonPedroman]

One of the craziest parts is that vote for women was actually more supported by the right than by the left

[@raven3113]

Yet the left established it? How's that work?

[@aetu35]

I was listening to the video while playing EU4 and using the stab hit SFX for the wall street crash legit scared me. Excellent video, you gained a subscriber.

[@johncarter6684]

Arriba España!

[@camptierr]

He official version about the legitimacy of the Second Republic speaks of elections on April 12, 1931, in which the Spanish people supposedly had to choose between continuing with the Monarchy after the government of Primo de Rivera or passing from the monarchy to the republic. However, on April 12, 1931, the elections were municipal, to elect 80,000 councilors and, at no time, to elect the Monarchy-Republic regime. The results of those elections were never published. Historians have found reliable figures in the statistical yearbook for 1932 that speak of a victory for the monarchist councilors with an absolute majority. Despite everything, King Alfonso XIII was forced into exile abroad to avoid a bloodbath. Such was the degree of agitation in the country that the republic was proclaimed after the departure of the monarch. This leads us to the conclusion that the Second Spanish Republic was never democratically legitimated. The republic did not have the support of the people.

[@temugenie2698]

Finally a good take on the war.

[@gyahahaandkyahaha1345]

Can't wait for the next part, God bless you Pax!

[@athelol]

One of the few wars where the good guys won.

[@supahjadi8944]

It's crazy how youtube didnt recommend me this video even though I'm a subscriber. I had to check your channel.

[@awesomeapostolic4492]

What a great video, summed things up pretty well for me. I always had an interest in the Spanish Civil war, but this helped show me the exact way things played out leading up to it. Sad to say it sounds more and more like my country every day.

[@aldoushuxley5953]

Check out the channel "Charles Haywood" He does right wing book reviews, and has great interest in Franco. In his reviews, he goes into more detail on what it was like for the generals, the common people etc, and of course that way, if you want, you also know what books to read :)

[@awesomeapostolic4492]

@@aldoushuxley5953 Thanks for the recommendation good sir.

[@Mestari1Gaming]

Damn this video is really good! Can't wait for the part 2!

[@texas975]

VIVA FRANCO! 🇪🇸

[@grannynorma655]

God. Imagine being this cringe.

[@odie1973ro]

ESPAÑA!....UNA ESPAÑA!.... LIBRE VIVA LA MUERTE...VIVA ESPAÑA VIVA FRANCO.

[@CantusTropus]

Oooh my, what an interesting topic! I'll be looking forward to your career with great interest.

[@LionsInBoots]

I love your content and resonate with your ideals. You deserve a much larger fanbase, gonna share your videos whenever I can. You uphold so many arguments that are outright non-existent in modern governing and culture; it is a breath of fresh air to have content made by someone with actual logic, research and morals who is firm in their faith and upholds them. I appreciate this content more than you can imagine.

[@agptyutuuturty]

ok, ok, I am Spanish and I guarantee you that this is the first time I see on youtube the complete and detailed account of how the civil war took place. Congratulations

[@nicolasjuandecardenas7921]

Glad to see an English language history on the Spanish Civil War.

[@johnrosschisholm5740]

Thank you for explaining this in a straight-forward and neutral way thats easy to understand. I often find this topic to be overwhelming in its machinations

[@dagzforx102]

Babe wake up, new pax video just dropped

[@JukeBoxDestroyer]

Azana was also Jewish

[@MackeyDeez]

Seems like history is about to repeat itself here in the states.

[@ahmedsudan615]

🇺🇸🏳🌈

[@patternenjoyer2022]

No patriots have power in the American military, there are only Jews, atheists and homosexuals.

[@Carlo_von_Habsburg]

@@patternenjoyer2022NAZI ALERT.

[@Skully_14]

New year, new Pax upload. Woo

[@anarcho-snufkinistgang7775]

Average Pax fanboy be like:

[@grape4158]

This is your best made video so far! God bless you Pax!

[@yanfrias946]

ver good! will be waiting excitedly for the next video!

[@ChudSonOfChud]

Pax, have you read Peter Kemp’s Mine Were of Trouble? I’m about to start it.

[@mark3035]

I just finished it. Great account. Kemp was absolutely heroic. He actually met with Franco at the end of the book.

[@pointlessrandom7619]

I recently read it. excellent book.

[@occam7382]

@@mark3035, man was definitely a badass, but he still fought for a brutal authoritarian regime.

[@scottycooley6459]

It's a good account of the war from a "boots on the ground" perspective. Also a good commentary on how ridiculous and surreal war is.

[@gabinohermosillatamayo8236]

Very well explained,greetings from spain

[@malootooth]

Yes! A video from Pax.

[@georgeohwell7988]

You're becoming my favourite video maker fast.....

[@wabc2336]

3:53 Not true. Marxists believe that morality depends on class. Lenin said, "Our morality is proletarian morality." This means seeing things from the point of view of the workers. Marxists see that the interests of the workers are opposed to the interests of the ruling class, so morally one can only choose workers or the ruling class.

[@enovos3138]

You are brave pax, hope this video stays up

[@frauleinhohenzollern8442]

Each passing day I become more and more disillusioned with democracy tbh.

[@marinazinovic2113]

Great video, subbed!

[@robloxis4koolkidzliekme683]

Watch his other videos before making an oppinion, this guy posts-pro-confederate apologia and is openly far-right.

[@marinazinovic2113]

@@robloxis4koolkidzliekme683 Even better ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@zenothemeano4381]

@@marinazinovic2113 ^ POV: You are 13

[@marinazinovic2113]

@@zenothemeano4381 lol seethe

[@theingeniousone5141]

@@robloxis4koolkidzliekme683 hes not really far right hes just highly authoritarian

[@erh1212erh1212]

You should consider doing a video on the Mexican Revolution next. Mike Duncan did a good podcast on it a few years back. That is a good starting point for research and general interest.

[@jacobnewmanlim2470]

Hey Pax! I love your new videos!

[@fnfallout5664]

Thanks for the great video, Pax, gladly looking to see the next part.

[@caiosantosrds]

Awesome video mate 👏

[@theblackcaesar1685]

Hey Pax, I don't know if you will see this comment but I have a question. How come they didn't just expel the priests from the country? Also if the Vatican know that priests were being killed in Spain why didn't the Pope send someone to Spain and tell them look don't kill the priests let us (the Vatican) escort them to Rome or whatever other country the priests wanted to go too?

[@elcaponeholyemperorofnj1169]

This was during a time when the Vatican was weak

[@garinleloherain333]

Because the priests need to stay with the people and give guidance and religious support to them during the hard times of war?

[@santiagoperez-nk7ds]

during the spanish civil war the vatican seclared the war a crusade

[@occam7382]

@@santiagoperez-nk7ds, that's a flat-out lie. The Vatican Church actually remained relatively neutral in the Spanish Civil War, and Pope Pius Xl explicitly refused to recognize Franco's war as a "crusade."

[@romanianhustler3309]

@@garinleloherain333 based priest

[@conall7030]

Looking forward to part 2

[@Breastsinmymouthplease]

what music starts playing at 8:13 ?

[@wild_burn]

Ya Pasamos 🤚🏼💪🏼🇪🇸

[@Rizevim]

Franco should have restored the Carlist King.

[@TyranyFighterPatriot]

My heart aches every passing second nowing the cause is not accomplished yet. But that day will come, rest assured... Always remember "A Carlist is never an anonymous hero before God"

[@Carlo_von_Habsburg]

@@TyranyFighterPatrioteven your name is spelled wrong. Tyranny is written with 2 n.

[@TyranyFighterPatriot]

​@@Carlo_von_HabsburgThis title was way over a decade ago when I was much younger. I can't help KZbin forced our updated names to delete for our long aged acct. Google names.

[@Carlo_von_Habsburg]

@@TyranyFighterPatriot you know that you can just change your youtube name right?

[@generalesdeath5836]

Keep it up, Pax.

[@FrostSe7en]

Appropriate you covered this. People are drawing comparisons between the current state of the US and Weimar Germany, and many of them are appropriate, but I think they're missing (due to intentional lack of education on the subject I'm sure) a very large number of overwhelming parallels with pre-Civil War Spain. Forewarned, is forearmed.

[@tobrukasmarduk7732]

Spain saved itself: it was the only country in Western Europe, along with Finland, not to need the Marshall Plan, not to need Anglo-American troops, let alone Soviet ones. No one blames Finland for defending itself against the red communist threat. But they blame Franco's Spain Spain (Blue Division) and Finland invaded the USSR in 1941: both returned Stalin's visit. Anarchists, seoaratists and Trotskyists aside, the 'republican' troops that Franco faced was the Red Army (Soviet commissars, generals). If the 'Republica' had won, Hitler's Blitzkrieg would have turned against Red Spain in 1940. Franco saved the country from complete destruction. Spain inaugurated with the Discoveries who inaugurated the European Era and globalization. France (greater material and hegemonic power in Europe), England, Ottoman Empire, Protestants, Dutch Calvinists (Spain dominated the Netherlands) pirates of the Atlantic and Mediterranean, discover, conquer and organize the world. Spain's disgrace begins in the 19th century and then culminates in continuous civil wars (unlike other European countries, Spain did not have civil wars) The nationalists did not fight against "republicans" but against populist fronts (Popular Front of socialists, separatists, communists) that had already attacked and destroyed the Republic from within (in the essay of Revolution in 1934 and in the electoral frauds of 1936. The PSOE (socialist party ) was the main agent in the destruction of republican legality, which caused the Civil War. The Francoist dictatorship was a response to an extraordinary crisis, a non-totalitarian dictatorship, a relatively small state, a market economy, with a lot of individual freedom (paradoxically more than today with laws to control the individual, education, Woke cancel culture. Unfortunately, Franco was only defeated by those he had saved from the Red genocide: the Catholic Church of the Second Vatican Council approached the Reds, destroying itself, and delegitimized the regime, even supporting Basque terrorists. Franco's Catholic Spain was prosperous. Current Spain is threatened with balkanization and degeneration.

[@nugget4life15]

From which movies are the video clips sourced from? Interested in watching them.

[@NEY-uu3lx]

When at War is one of them, you can find it free in youtube

[@optionout]

VERY well done, BRAVO!

[@magnusjmvc8895]

Franco was sent by God to preserve Spain, the greatest Catholic empire the world has ever seen. Franco should be sainted by the Vatican. Viva Franco Viva España. 🙏⚔️✝️🇪🇸❌🇻🇦🕊🛡🙏

[@ronjames9936]

Ahw shut up

[@Carlo_von_Habsburg]

Least patriotic spaniard.

[@tenthclassgaming]

the carlists should have won

[@TyranyFighterPatriot]

​@@tenthclassgaming YES AVE CRUX SPES UNICA

[@mkatzfive5]

sent by God? he killed tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands; political prisoners filled the prisons (and unmarked graves due to mass executions). Church-friendly, royalist Spain had been in economic, political and military decline for 400 years and it continued under "God's messenger"? Franco. The Church hated democracies and loved religious or faux religious fascists like Franco, Mussolini and Hitler.

[@michaelman957]

Spanish Rep: Women can vote. Me: Okay, that's good, now what else-- Spanish Rep: And we'll now start massively persecuting Catholics Me: WHY?! This was is such a catastrophe to unpack. There were monsters on both sides, and tyrannical actions by both sides (because both were formed of varied factions and sometimes Faustian bargains). "Here Be Dragons" is a good movie set during the war.

[@Dario-uj6qo]

Spanish women could vote before the 2nd republic, not something most know but that's it, legaly at least

[@JavierSanchez-zj6su]

@@Dario-uj6qo falso

[@Dario-uj6qo]

@@JavierSanchez-zj6su cierto, si mal no recuerdo Calvo Sotelo estuvo involucrado, bueno, legalmente al menos

[@imaginationless5131]

Spitting history facts with a anime girl profile? I give my like and subscribe my friend Seriously though, I liked the breakdown you made of the events that make the republic fall.

[@mushussu838]

If you consider facts to be a obvious biased video with 0 sources then yeah

[@mushussu838]

@@Edward-so6by "spitting history facts" "Facts" He doesn't post sources too

[@Edward-so6by]

@@mushussu838 Boohoo

[@mushussu838]

@@AryanAkane >implying I'm socialist Aryan_Akane

[@mushussu838]

@@Edward-so6by Lmao sure buddy

[@suprk1604]

Remember, never go red

[@filoposting4672]

Hey pax, can you pass the sources that you use for the video? Its not criticism, genuinely i want to read the full sources for more information

[@LeBookKeeper]

Can you post some sources?

[@liamconlon4375]

*citation needed -- seriously, what are your sources? So much wrong with this video!

[@Max_Kraft]

Thank you for your informative video. I really like your choosen movie material

[@juanjo667]

I guess I'm not the first one, but as a spanish man I thank your work. You usually gotta go out of spanish sources to get an unbiased view.

[@JP-qb3ny]

Can’t wait for part 2

[@lovelifeanarchy]

Do you ever get that feeling of deja vu?

[@ZoranZoltanous]

Everyday

[@jerrycoomberry2541]

Anyone know what film the clips are from?

[@Johnnycdrums]

Do you have a video on the Cristeros War?

[@DrZoidbergSwe]

I'd love to see a list of the sources for all the images and films. I'd like to see them

[@PMMagro]

The 1936 Spanish goverment was not a communist one... I understand Americfan have a cold wear view on that but the Spanish left "popular front" was very mixed bag of different interests. The Basque for exampel where traditional and linked to religion, some where for a small state and hands on "revolution" (anarchists) while some wanted a strong Madrid/central power.It was a military coup vs an elected goverment that turned sour into a civil war. To blame the "communsits" (who where not even the biggest party in teh govermnt) for that is rather absurd when you have bene planning a coup since election day (not if but when you will strike against the goverment)...

[@philipelliott8941]

What movies do these scenes come from?

[@TyranyFighterPatriot]

One is Ther Be Dragons

[@tobrukasmarduk7732]

While at War (2019

[@yekkub9425]

8:25 What do you mean by "the industrial class"?

[@Antonio-ej8wp]

As a spanish I want to get it clear,when you say liberals you refer to Classical Liberalism or American modern Liberalism type?

[@matthewpacheco3323]

I believe he means classical liberal because the modern liberal movement I don’t think materialized until Roosevelt(FDR). Correct me if I’m wrong, but when Europeans use the term “liberal” don’t they usually mean it in the classical sense?

[@theingeniousone5141]

Classical liberalism

[@jvp1286]

@@matthewpacheco3323 Yes

[@Antonio-ej8wp]

@@matthewpacheco3323 Yes,here in Europe,at least continental one,when the word liberal is used in a political sense they refer to a a person that propose small government policies specially in the economic field (lower taxes,reduction of public spending,deregulation etc...) the term also have right-wing and conservative connotations so they're closer to GOP party ideologically speaking though Roosevelt type liberals also exist here and are referred as social liberals

[@CuddlyTheMadElite]

When is part 2 coming out?

[@ramudasanjuu]

4:50 nice eu4 stability drop sound

[@Adolfitotherevenant2003]

Great analysis

[@AXander1978]

What's the Spanish Civil War film?

[@antoniocarlosgomesfernedag1637]

People need to undestand: if someone is a free mason, it is not in the good of your coutry that they are seeking.... Is the good of the people that the masonary as an instituition serve.... ✡️

[@TomNowaczynski]

This is really well done. Also, totally reinstalling HoI4.

[@theingeniousone5141]

Me and him were on hoi4 alot to make this

[@stompchunkman4248]

Awesome video Pax! I hope you become interested in La Guerra de los Cristeros in Mexico, because it sounds bonkers at times.

[@HIROTONFA]

Great video

[@NA-hv6rs]

I've watched multiple videos of yours now. How have you gotten so wise? Any book recommendations? I'm sharing your videos everywhere.

[@PaxTubeChannel]

Thank you for sharing my videos! As for book recommendations, I recently read 'Slouching Towards Gomorrah' by Robert Bork and thought it was great, especially if you're interested in the current state of the US.

[@fabiangamboa1714]

Would love to see your sources for this bud.

[@ah925]

Love the eu4 sound effects lol. Great Video!

[@Peregrinatio52]

Learning about the Spanish civil war in my adulthood has astonished me, in how inaccurate and biased my American education had been on the subject in my youth. There was no attempt at showing the truth, instead it consisted of often probably false, or deliberately censored information, in support of a radical revisionist left-wing agenda.

[@Fives-wk4dl]

Movie?

[@Ditmike2235]

I was just wondering what you were up to!