Can someone explain why the Spanish Civil War is so fascinating to some?

Question

I have been hearing a lot about the spanish civil war lately and people seem to really enjoy talking about it. Can someone explain why it is so fascinating? What started it?

Answer 1

It is hard to say why other people find something interesting.

The Civil War was used as a practice ground for weapons and tactics Russia, Germany and Italy before WW2.

It was a particularly brutal war, with cruelty and massacres on both sides.

Basically, the left wing Republicans (who lost) were the legitimate government of Spain. Right wing Nationalists, eventually led by Franco, staged a successful coup.

It is sort of romanticised because writers such as Orwell and Hemingway visited and wrote books about it. Orwell wrote Homage to Catalonia and Hemingway wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls. Also, on the Republican side, a lot of foreign idealists fought as the International Brigade.

Anthony Beevor has written a detailed account of the war that is in bookstores now.

Answer 2

To many on the a procedures-real he's a hero yet, actually he substitute right into a fascist dictator. In 1931, King Alfonso XIII abdicated the throne and the 2d Spanish Republic substitute into declared. A socialists united states, it began to modernize which drew the wrath of rightists. In 1936, the Spanish military in Morocco revolted led by potential of Franco and the Spanish Civil conflict began. Franco and his nationalists which blanketed fascists, monarchists and conservatives, conflict the Republicans, who have been many times socialist and communist, for the administration of the rustic. Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany aided the Nationalists and the two factors had distant places volunteers, the only united states to straight away call to help the Republicans substitute into Stalinist Russia. Aided by potential of their forefingers, the Nationalists gained and Franco began a dictatorship that lasted virtually 4 many years.

Answer 3

The Spanish Civil War is generally regarded as the precursor or cutain-raiser to World War 2. It began as a nationalist military revolt against a democratically elected republican government but became in practice the first war between fascist forces led by General Franco, backed by Germany & Italy, against anarchist, socialist and communist forces backed by the Soviet Union. Significant features of the war include the first terror bombing of civilians in the destruction of Guernica [ the subject of Pablo Picasso's famous painting], the support the Roman Catholic Church gave to the fascist revolt and the attempts by the communists to take control of the Anarchist and Trotskyite militias to further the aims of the Communist Party. On the republican side, many foreigners alarmed at the rise of fascism fought, including Americans under the banner of The Abraham Lincoln Brigade.
The most famous memoir of the war is 'Homage to Catalonia' written by George Orwell, who was later to use some of his experiences to write the political fable 'Animal Farm'.

Answer 4

Janniel's answer is pretty good.
But Guernica was not the first terror bombing of civilians it was just the most extensive bombing of a European city up to that date.
Airships had been used in WW1 on a minor scale for bombing London and other cities, and the R.A.F. bombed villages in Iraq throughout the 1920s

Answer 5

No idea. I wonder the same thing about the U.S. civil war. oops, I mean, The War Between The States.