Thanks to my satellite network’s mosaic display, I learn stuff from TV. I had always wondered why the Spanish Civil War (which is only called Guerre d’Espagne, or Spanish War, in French) wasn’t part of the history of France. Or, rather, why it was called the Spanish War — why a war that could lay the grounds for a fascist regime that’d last until 1975 right on France’s doorstep (and I can’t still quite fathom that one, either… a military dictatorship so close to my home, and to my birth date? is the Spanish language bad luck, or what?) could have only involved Spain, why nobody had stepped in. Thanks to a random well-lit interview shot in the middle of the mosaic, I finally figured it out.
What, you expect me to explain? Do you really think this is the kind of blog that discusses history?
Well, okay… (No, actually, I’m writing this down because I’ll have forgotten tomorrow, and by the next winter I’ll remember mentioning it and I’ll search the archive to find this post back.)
So the Popular Front had just been elected on the promise of peace, and they were scared that an intervention would cause a duplicate civil war in France, or that it could even trigger a second World War (can you imagine that?). In short, the country already didn’t have any balls left, years before Germany invaded it. Oh, and Hitler dies in the end. Or does he?
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Diabolito, 7 years ago:
Ca c'est du super Garoo ! :)
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