First Act Of A Drama
Spain Republic Fight Poster
One thing that I am sure of, and which I can answer truthfully, is that whatever the contingencies that may arise here, wherever I am there will be no Communism.
Francisco Franco
As we know, the World War II started the 1st September 1939. But the Nazi Wehrmaht (and especially Luftwaffe) had its training ground before the year 1939. Adolf Hitler had an opportunity to try his warplanes in Spanish skies, when a Spanish general Francisco Franco raised a coup d’état against duly elected socialist government of Spain (07.18.1936). On the contrary, Stalin sent arms, war specialists and propagandists to the republican government to help like-minded socialists. Many volunteers throughout the world came to Spain to stand for the republic. The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) was the first conflict between the far-right regimes on the one side (Nazi Gegmany, Fascist Italy, Frankists), and the Antifascist communist-liberal coalition on the other (Communists, Socialists, Liberals). The western democratic states stood aside the conflict.
The poster by a Spanish artist Tomás depicts the crucial moment of the conflict – the siege of Madrid. The 7th November 1936 the Republicans managed to repulse the Frankists from the Spanish capital. Simultaneously, the 7th November 1936 is the 19th anniversary of the October Socialist revolution in Russia.
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