“What
Was the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39?”
Prepared
by Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT Newsletters // Website: www.toughissues.org
A
1-Page Handout // All emphasis is mine unless otherwise stated. //
January 17, 2011
ANSWER: The “Popular
Front” (i.e., the Republican forces – a.k.a. the “Loyalists”) won a
clear majority in the elections of 1936 in Spain. The democratically elected
government of the Spanish Republic was attempting to reduce the immense
power of the Roman Catholic Church in Spain. The Spanish Republican government
had given freedom of religion to all Spaniards; it had removed
Roman Catholic priests and nuns from teaching positions in Spanish public
schools; it had taxed Roman Catholic Church property in Spain;
and, after discovering the skeletons of numerous babies in the tunnels between
various Roman Catholic monasteries and convents in Spain, it was preparing to
launch a national investigation of this Roman Catholic Church scandal.
(Spanish doctors had determined that most of the babies found in these tunnels
had died from suffocation.)
The response of
the Spanish Nationalists-Fascists to these Republican reforms was to launch a
vicious civil war (1936-1939). (The Nationalist-Fascist forces were urged to go
to war by the Jesuit-controlled Vatican and Spanish Roman Catholic
authorities!) In essence, the Roman Catholic hierarchy had declared
war on freedom-loving Spaniards, most of whom were Roman Catholic!
The Jesuit-controlled Vatican, Nazi Germany, and Fascist Italy all supported the
anti-republican, Nationalist-Fascist forces headed by Roman Catholic Fascist
General Francisco Franco. The Roman Catholic authorities even arranged for
thousands of Moroccan Muslim troops to be brought into Spain to fight alongside
the Nationalists-Fascists against the democratically elected Republican
government! The “Loyalists” (i.e., the “Republicans” – those
who loved freedom and their Republic) were able to hold onto part of Spain
through three hard years of fighting; however, they were finally
defeated by military forces with vastly superior military equipment and
weaponry. (By the way, the USA and Britain refused to help the military
forces of the democratically elected Spanish Republican government!)
Roman Catholic
propagandists portrayed this civil war as a struggle of the Spanish
Nationalists-Fascists and the Roman Catholic Church against “Communism” in
Spain; however, there was only a handful of Communists in
the Spanish Republican government, which was made up from numerous groups within
the country, including several socialist parties. Soviet military support to the
Republican government was minimal, and paled in comparison to
German and Italian military support to the Spanish Nationalists-Fascists.
(German and Italian military support included pilots, advisers, and top-notch,
modern military equipment – even aircraft.)
Finally, the
anti-republican, Nationalist-Fascist forces, with a lot of help from the Jesuit-controlled
Vatican – and strong military support from Nazi Germany and Fascist
Italy –and using thousands of Muslim troops – defeated the Spanish
Republican military forces.
The Jesuit-controlled Vatican’s “pay-back” to the freedom-loving Spanish people (again, most of whom were Roman Catholic), for daring to challenge the “authority” of the Roman Catholic Church in Spain, manifested itself thusly: (1) Hundreds of thousands of freedom-loving Spaniards were murdered (possibly as many as 850,000); (2) Many Spanish women and girls were brutally raped; and, (3) At the end of the civil war, a totalitarian Fascist dictatorship was set up under the “leadership” of Roman Catholic Fascist dictator, Generalissimo Francisco Franco – a puppet of the Jesuit-controlled Vatican! Franco immediately “turned back the clock” of Republican reforms (e.g., freedom of religion, a reduction of the Roman Catholic Church’s power in Spain, etc.). The Jesuit-controlled Spanish Roman Catholic Church once again reigned supreme in Spain, and, as a result, freedom in Spain died!
In a May 19, 1821 letter to Thomas Jefferson, John Adams (1735-1826;
2nd U.S. President) stated: “Can free government possibly
exist with the Roman Catholic Religion?” The freedom-loving Spanish
people who supported the democratically elected Republican government in Spain
in the late 1930s found out the hard way that “free government” could
not “possibly exist with the Roman Catholic Religion”!
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