Pick a side: Spanish Civil War

[TNF]

Republicans.

[Leftbehind]

Republicans (normal)

CNT-FAI to continue the revolution.

[afleitch]

Republican

[minionofmidas]

[DC Al Fine]

The one's who didn't murder 6000+ priests.

[RogueBeaver]

CEDA.

[Nanwe]

Lerroux/Alcala-Zamora option (aka, get in a car and leave the peninsula)

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

The Republicans (normal)

[afleitch]

The one's who didn't murder 6000+ priests.

So the side that bombed Guernica then? Or if that doesn't appeal to you, the side that executed upwards of 200,000 people including a significant number of protestant priests and Republican Catholic priests?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I'm neither a fascist nor a Catholic. Guess.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

^^^

[Leftbehind]

^^^

That's also the party I'd be with, FWIW.

[WalterMitty]

francisco franco, obviously.

[Tayya]

The Republicans suck.

But I would still pick them over the fascists.

[Dr. Cynic]

Easily Republicans.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Fortunately, my ancestors left long before the Spanish Civil War. Given the choice between the two evils here, I'd leave too.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

The Republicans suck.

But I would still pick them over the fascists.

More or less.

[H. Ross Peron]

Considering I'm Protestant, Republican.

[Peter the Lefty]

The one's who didn't murder 6000+ priests.

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[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

The one's who didn't murder 6000+ priests.

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Do you really not get why someone would oppose those who are violently persecuting their religion?

[Velasco]

Republican, with the legal government and its desperate efforts to avoid the catastrophe, against the well-armed Francoists, the Chamberlain cabinet and the criminal Non-Intervention Commitee.

The one's who didn't murder 6000+ priests.

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Do you really not get why someone would oppose those who are violently persecuting their religion?

After the failed coup d'état by Franco, Mola and the other generals, which drove to the Civil War, the republican state literally collapsed. In absence of authority, different and heterogeneous union or revolutionary committees took the power. Unfortunately, the hatred had gone off in those days and in the zone that nominally was controlling the republican government, which in the first months was lacking in the practice of any authority, there were murders of right-wing sympathizers and priests, because the ecclesiastic leadership (Gomá, a Francoist who gave the rebel cause the name of "Crusade") was supporting shamelessly the Francoist side. These slaughters stopped practically when the authority of the government was reconstructed. Little is said of the efforts of PM Negrín (PSOE) and the minister of Justice Irujo (PNV), not only for finishing with the pursuit but to re-establish the worship to the extent that was possible. On the other side, Francoist authorities gave orders to shoot Basque nationalist priests and repression in general it was systematized and focused to eliminate leftist sympathizers and to create, in general Mola's words, " a climate of terror " among the population.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

francisco franco, obviously.

I was wondering whether Mitty is just trolling us. I guess I have my answer.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

The one's who didn't murder 6000+ priests.

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Do you really not get why someone would oppose those who are violently persecuting their religion?

DC Al Fine is a Calvinist.

[Arturo Belano]

The Republicans. Specifically the P.O.U.M. or maybe the Caballerista wing of the PSOE.

[DC Al Fine]

The one's who didn't murder 6000+ priests.

So the side that bombed Guernica then? Or if that doesn't appeal to you, the side that executed upwards of 200,000 people including a significant number of protestant priests and Republican Catholic priests?

I was unaware of Franco's persecution of Protestants...

Yeah that's a tough one. If I was a Spanish Protestant at the time, I'd back the Republic obviously, but as some guy in Canada who's concerned for the church as a whole I'm not so sure. My initial reading indicates that leftists sporadically attacked priests and seminarians before the 1936 election and the coup d'etat, which makes me skeptical that persecution would stop once order is was restored. I guess I'm a lukewarm Nationalist supporter then.