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On March 29, 1939, Francisco Franco and his fascist forces overran the capital city of Spain, Madrid, and declared victory over their enemies, the Spanish Republicans.
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The Spanish Civil War is still a hot-button issue for ideological partisans on both sides of the aisle. At stake in these arguments is how to define what constitutes the left-wing and the right-wing in politics. Essays by Jacques Delacroix, Jonah Goldberg, John Holbo, Pseudoerasmus, and the late Ralph Raico are worth reading if you want to delve into whether fascism was left- or right-wing.
When the war started, the Nazis and the Soviets began sending weapons; the Nazis to Franco’s camp, the Soviets to the Republican’s camp.
(The Republicans were a hodgepodge of socialists, liberals, and anarchists who banded together to defend the democratically-elected government Franco and his allies loathed.) The governments of democracies (and their undemocratic