Which faction would you have backed during the Spanish Civil War?
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Question: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War#Combatants
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Republican: Popular Front		  
#2
Republican: CNT/FAI		  
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Republican: UGT		  
#4
Republican: ERC/EC		  
#5
Republican: EG		  
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Nationalist: Falange		  
#7
Nationalist: Carlists		  
#8
Nationalist: CEDA		  
#9
Nationalist: Alfonsists		  
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« on: March 14, 2014, 10:04:10 PM »
Well?
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Antonio the Sixth
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« Reply #1 on: March 15, 2014, 05:04:20 AM »
The democratically elected government (normal).
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« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2014, 10:28:05 AM »
Quote from: Antonio V on March 15, 2014, 05:04:20 AM
The democratically elected government (normal).
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« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2014, 11:07:23 AM »

That, plus UGT wasn't another "faction" fighting against the Popular Front.

I'm curious to see who are those horrible people voting for abolishing the democracy and killing republicans afterwards. But I'd really like to know who the hell has voted for the Carlists here, a bunch of crazy, useless and dumb people fighting for a war they couldn't win a century before 1936.
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« Reply #4 on: March 15, 2014, 11:22:19 AM »
UGT was a trade union affiliated with the Popular Front.
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« Reply #5 on: March 15, 2014, 01:27:19 PM »
POUM
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« Reply #6 on: March 15, 2014, 03:14:59 PM »
POUM, and therefore, CNT-FAI, de facto. Plus they had the most inventive and progressive projects and realizations.
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« Reply #7 on: March 15, 2014, 03:15:41 PM »
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« Reply #8 on: March 15, 2014, 03:48:26 PM »
Quote from: Mr Bear, King of Animals on March 15, 2014, 03:14:59 PM
POUM, and therefore, CNT-FAI, de facto. Plus they had the most inventive and progressive projects and realizations.

This is my answer, as well.
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« Reply #9 on: March 15, 2014, 04:00:56 PM »
I had a fascinating book, by Gaston Leval, in French listing and describing the CNT-FAI's realizations in Catalunya and Aragon between 1936 and 1939, with collectivizations, money abolitions etc. I lent it to a trotskyst comrade. Now I can't get it back because that comrade is part of the faction that purged me late last year.

Second world problems...
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« Reply #10 on: March 15, 2014, 04:06:47 PM »
I'd be a member of the Caballerista-wing of the PSOE or a member of POUM.
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« Reply #11 on: March 15, 2014, 04:11:26 PM »
In general, the Republicans. I'd have backed the Popular Front.
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« Reply #12 on: March 15, 2014, 04:13:38 PM »
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« Reply #13 on: March 15, 2014, 04:17:46 PM »
POUM was a big factor on us losing the war against the fascists.

There was an elected Government pushing for a very progressive agenda, and today's left is proud of our II Republic, even those who say they'd stand with POUM/CNT-FAI if they were living in the '30s, but during our II Republic, left-wing republicaan Governments had to face POUM and CNT activists every damn day, making the Government look more smooth and disorganized than they actually were, and contributed a lot to the "Reds want a dictatorship of the proletariat" discourse used by conservatives and fascists.

My grandfather (whom I didn't know, unfortunately...) was a Republican official during the war in Guadalajara. As far as I know, he fought more against CNT-FAI radicals than against Franco. When Franco and his bunch of rubbish arrived where he was, the left was already shattered... So the only right answer really is:

Quote from: Antonio V on March 15, 2014, 05:04:20 AM
The democratically elected government (normal).
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« Reply #14 on: March 15, 2014, 05:24:46 PM »
The Alfonsists, probably. Mind you, I wouldn't have supported the military launching the coup when and the way they did (after all, the Republicans hadn't done anything particularly frightening, and certainly nothing that couldn't have been reversed).
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« Reply #15 on: March 15, 2014, 05:42:01 PM »
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