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They're never going to be able to argue Stalin didn't send firing squads to murder the Spanish revolutionaries. After seeing this meme they'd be crazy to try.
The Spanish Civil War is a bit weird in nomenclature, though. The 'revolutionaries' were the fascist branches of the military and monarchists, who were mad at the leftist elected governement.
Usually revolutionaries aren't conservatives, but in the Spanish Civil War they were. Both Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin jumped at the chance to test out their offensive capabilities and sent their armies there. And it was a bloody affair where both parties slaughtered civil parties.
But Russia, for once, supported the democratically elected party in this war.
I'm not affiliated with the tankies and hate the fables they spin, but as an historian this one point really needed some context.
Man, that's not even close to how it went down. The Soviet-supported PCE was all about infighting and sabotaging other members of the Republicans for not bootlicking Stalin enough.
I mean, can it really be called any kind of "revolt," then? It's essentially just a coup that went south and spun into a civil war thanks to the CNT-FAI's intelligence networks.
Hence why I put revolutionaries in quotations and felt like a little context was necessary.
Fair enough.
Stalin sent his army to Spain, huh? So what, you're like a video game historian or something?
Aside from massive military 'aid' there was between 2000-3000 Russian millitary personel active in Spain during the war.
So many words to say you were lying but want it to count as truth. Putting the Soviet Union in the same line as the fascist forces that sent ~30 times the number of people. If you're an historian then you know you're being a slimy little shit lying about that, and if you're not an historian (and it doesn't seem like you are frankly) you're a slimy little shit for lying about that. Scare quotes around 'aid'. Absolutely deranged.
Not that you've stopped lying, equivocating 'military personnel' as troops when even wikipedia won't call them that.
Ok good arguments, solid conversation.
Bye Felicia
Guess we'll never witness your mental alchemy that turns sending 'aid' to the republicans into putting them in front of a firing squad as the meme implies.
Anticommunists never actually have to have a coherent though though lol
Who hurt you? Do you need to talk about it?