The Spaniards are martial, and the military intervenes in politics in times of crisis, which is regarded as a glorious tradition. Three days later, on July 17, 1936, Generals Mora and Franco made a "manifesto", which was traditionally the way military men announced their assuming power. The Spanish Civil War began.

Franco has always been a man who emphasizes the need to maintain order with an iron fist, and he is most despicable to social chaos. However, the rebellion itself is an act of rebellion, and if it does not succeed, it will be a success. Therefore, all military rebellions will be killed. Franco, on the other hand, has always believed that as long as the ultimate goal is to "restore order", killing in the process is only a necessary means. So the civil war was brutal from the start.

Assassinations between the two factions before the civil war were a sign of the failure of the law. In the early days of the civil war, both in the rebel areas and in the government-controlled areas, the social order was dominated by mass organizations, creating a situation in which "the law does not hold the people accountable".

In the seventh year of the Ethernet period of Spain, the law as a social convention disappeared. The restraints disappeared in an instant, and people got the feeling of liberation that they had not been able to obtain for a long time, and the despicable cruelty of human nature that had been hidden and suppressed in their hearts poured out. It has been discovered that people whom they once envied, hated, disliked, and even pinched their own IOUs can do whatever they want under the pretext of punishing their "enemies." Murder is no longer punishable by law, and it is still a "righteous act". On both sides, there has been a spike in indiscriminate killings of innocents. The famous poet Lorga died at the hands of the right-wing people in vain. On the other hand, the radical wing has the same characteristics, and the left side has almost wiped out intellectuals associated with Catholicism. According to statistics, 16,832 priests, friars and nuns were killed in the civil war. In the case of indiscriminate killings of innocents in the civil war, the left and right wings carried out roughly half of the execution.

The decisive arena of international ideology was in the first seven years of the Taichu period, when the situation in Spain was almost out of control. Madrid did not have a decent army, but the enthusiasm of the population was high. At this time, a spiritual integration is needed, and there is no other power to fight Franco. This force has finally emerged, and that is the "international column". It was the eve of World War II, the heyday of left-wing thought in the world, and the most rampant period of the extreme right in Germany and Italy. Internationally, the left and right wings are extreme, and they all come here to try their luck and express their passion, although it is likely that the expression is not on the right topic. Volunteers flocked to Spain's own camp shirtless, and this group of self-employed men suddenly became an international battlefield, more lively than the Running of the Bulls.

In fact, the situation in Spain at the moment is not the two major groups of fascist and anti-fascist democratic camps that people later divide today. Even if it is simplified, at least three major pieces must be drawn. It is really a misunderstanding to put Red Russia in the "democratic camp". The main antagonism was Red Russia and Germany and Italy, that is, the extreme left and the extreme right. Countries like the United States are the third block of the far left and the far right, and they are too busy dealing with the depression to be interested in either side of the Spanish Civil War. The international left and right poles are engaged in an ideological war here, and every bomb is dropped on Spanish soil.

As soon as the civil war began, the government of Madrid asked for support from the Red Russians and the Third International. The Red Russians' aid was to trade with third countries, sell weapons to the Spanish government, and demand full payment of gold (which was not even as generous as the orientals in Sicily, who at least accepted Chinese antiquities as a discount, or provided some special minerals that China needed). The greatest advantage of the civil war** and the government was that the national gold reserves were in their hands, and Spain was the sixth largest gold reserve in the world. At the beginning of the war, nearly a quarter of Spain's gold was secretly shipped into Red Russia that year. On the one hand, the purchase of weapons has the meaning of entrusting custody during the war. A small amount of gold was deposited in France, which the French returned to the new regime Franco after the war. Most of the Spanish gold that arrived in Red Russia disappeared. Orov, a high-ranking Red Russian official, recalled that when the gold arrived, our beloved Georgian bearded man said: "The Spaniards will never see their gold again, just as they cannot see their own ears." Of course, Chinese businessmen also earn a quarter of the gold from the republican government, as well as a large amount of minerals and agricultural products, and anyway, China has the world's largest consumption power for these things, and is not as hungry as Maozi.

These self-employed members of the "International Column" played a key role in saving Madrid. In the defense of Madrid at the end of the seventh year of the Taichu Dynasty, there were about 40,000 international volunteers. The Battle of Madrid was the first appearance of the international column, and it also put the Peasants' and Workers' Party in the spotlight of Spanish politics. The international column was led by the Third International to recruit soldiers from more than fifty countries, including Americans, including Chinese (after all, China is a country of political freedom and will not interfere with the political position of citizens, as long as there is no criminal record in China, tired Chinese volunteers can take off their military uniforms and throw away their guns, and go to the Chinese embassy with a small blueprint to apply for asylum). The Red Russians sent 3,000 people in the name of volunteers, including 1,000 pilots, which were basically formed field units of the Western Front.

Immediately after the bombardment of Guernica, Barcelona was in turmoil, and the anarchists and Trotskyists in the left-wing camp were suppressed by the Comintern. Orwell returned from the front and was surprised to find that "the sober people on the political scene have realized that this is a war between the a** and the anarchists, and far from a war with Franco." "Four hundred people were killed and a thousand wounded in a single left-wing civil war alone. This kind of "armed conflict" between the left is "everywhere in the country". The prisoners of the left-wing infighting were put in prison, and "the prison was overcrowded". There were also people in the international column who were hunted down for "suspicious political experiences". The police even took away the wounded soldiers from their own side of the hospital. Later, the republicans lost the battle, and it is difficult to say that it had nothing to do with their infighting. The purge in Spain was only an extension of the 37-year purge of the Red Russia, and even the charges were often the same. Fortunately, there was no Soviet zone in China at this time, otherwise the same repertoire of the Red Army cutting the Red Army would have been staged in China.

Seeing that the war situation in Spain became stalemate, the Red Russia, which was holding Spanish gold, reduced or even interrupted its aid to the republic, on the contrary, German and Italian support for Franco increased. Although the international column fought valiantly, it was no match for the opponent's superior equipment. In March of the ninth year of the Taichu Dynasty, in the Battle of Aragon, the 5th Brigade of the International Column was almost completely annihilated. On the side of the republicans, the hearts of the people were broken, and defeatism began to spread. Red Russia also habitually sold his teammates and began to make his own calculations.

At this time of the civil war, the international situation was in a very dangerous state, and Western countries were reluctant to intervene in the Spanish civil war, for fear of triggering a world war. Germany and Italy regard Spain as a rehearsal for their own rise, and China sells arms on both sides, so it is not a big deal to watch the excitement. At the same time, the extreme appearance of both sides of the civil war also makes countries reluctant to resolutely help one side or the other. After the Munich Agreement, Britain and France believed that appeasement was effective and could maintain peace, and preferred to limit the conflict between Spain to a civil war. Uncle Georgia put the German-Italian peace treaty on the balance of his own interests, and negotiated with the Workers' Party Germany to divide Poland together. International supporters on both sides of the Spanish Civil War quietly held hands behind their backs. On the republican side, there are so many contradictions and cannibalism, while Franco's side is single-minded in fighting. The course of the war gradually became clear.

On December 31, the ninth year of the First Lunar New Year, Franco was victorious. He declared that the republicans were "criminals" and that there was no "possibility of pardon and reconciliation" for them. On January 26, 1939, Barcelona surrendered without a fight. Hundreds of thousands of republicans and refugees began the great exodus to France.

Until this time, the center of Spain, with Madrid at its core, was still in the hands of the republicans, who still had nearly 300,000 troops. It is unbelievable that the collapse of the republic is imminent, but there is one last particularly brutal infighting. The Republicans sent their own men to fight fiercely for four days, and the winning side shot and killed the opponent's officers, although it did not achieve the effect of more than half of its own damage, but it was also considered a wound. The republicans finally collapsed, and their leading figures left Spain in a hinge. And their followers and soldiers, for the most part, did not have time to leave. Waiting for them was Franco's firing squad. At 11 a.m. on March 27, Franco occupied Madrid. On April 1, Franco announced that the Spanish Civil War was over. Germany and Italy were the first to recognize the Franco regime, Britain, France, and the United States recognized the Spanish government in the following months, while China followed them, even securing a supply base on the west coast facing the Atlantic.

If there had been no international intervention, perhaps the Spanish Civil War would not have lasted so long, and without the help of Chinese arms and military instructors, perhaps the Spaniards who were implicated would not have been the people of half the country! However, it is always necessary to pay it back, and the atmospheric Spaniards also specially invited Chinese friends from Sicily to Madrid to watch the bullfighting performance, accompanied by Franco himself.

It used to be the center of the world's attention, where volunteers from many major countries came, their soldiers came, and the planes and artillery that they helped roared here. Suddenly, all of them disappeared. Everyone left Spain behind, leaving behind devastation and countless bones. No one knows exactly how many Spaniards died in the civil war from July of the 7th year of the year to April of the 9th year of the year. The most popular version is that a million people died in the three-year civil war. More rigorous historians examine the evidence and believe that at least 640,000 people died in the civil war, not counting the tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of people who were repressed by the Franco regime in retaliation after the war.

Matthews, a New York Times reporter who personally lived through the Spanish Civil War, has a book looking back on the Civil War called "Half of Spain Is Dead." The title of the book comes from the epitaph written by the famous critic Lara for Spain before the Second Republic: "Here half of Spain is buried, and she died at the hands of the other half of Spain".