#franco spanish war

[illustratus]

The Battle of Rocroi "Rocroi, the Last Tercio" by Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau

#augusto ferrer dalmau #battle of rocroi #art #thirty years war #rocroi #tercios #tercio #spain #spanish empire #spanish #pikemen #infantry #pike and shot #europe #history #spanish golden age #habsburg spain #france #habsburg monarchy #house of habsburg #habsburg #european #battle #last stand #franco spanish war

[carbone14]

Franco pendant le défilé de la Victoire – Guerre civile espagnole – Madrid – 19 mai 1939

#avant-guerre #pre-war #guerre civile espagnole #spanish civil war #francisco franco #franco #madrid #espagne #spain #19/05/1939 #05/1939 #1939

[agp]

"BOTH TOILETS!!" screams the time traveller from the future where those words conjure a dystopian space full of comedic potential

#imagining girlmoding to get recruited and avoid the police #imagine being the girlmoding recruiter #this is about the spanish civil war #there was a salesman who apparently put out a personal ad in the star cause he didnt have any connections to the communist party #i want to find that sooooo bad lmao #gofundme a chance to defeat franco and his cronies

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

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#still not over the insane george orwell post that got reblogged onto my dash yesterday #i unfollowed the person who reblogged it #because either A) theyre a tankie or B) their criticial thinking skills are sub-fucking-zero #like 1) the OP of that post was just copying Hakims awful video on Orwell #2) to read animal farm and come out of it with the interpretation that Orwell was saying that the animals and hence the proletariat in the #USSR were just innately unintelligent shows a reading comprehension so bad its not even like piss poor. its piss impoverished #3) if a post is like ''also look X said Y Bad Thing'' without providing any of the context as to where that quote comes from theyre likely #being deliberately mishonest. it is easy to take someone out if context to make it look like they were saying something they werent which is #exactly what the OP of that post was doing. they took one sentence of Orwells writing on the nazis and Hitler to make it look like Orwell #thought Hitler was a swell guy when actually Orwells writing was about the dangers of charismatic tyrants like Hitler and their rhetoric #the entire thing was about how Hitler was able to amass such power and popularity and use that to his advantage #not every despot is so easy to pick out as dangerous or so easy to detest. hitler was hardly the first charismatic tyrant in history #OP also conveniently left out the fact that like the next sentence is orwell being like yeah no i would fucking kill this man which wow #thats a glaring omission. imagine if people decided to look up what OP was refetencing to verify irs veracity #4) OP does not mention that Orwell fought in La Guerra Civil alongside communists and socialists and anarchists etc. #he fought against the nationalists. he took a bullet to the neck during the fight. he was very much against francisco franco and his fascist #regime who were allied with Hitler and the Nazis #mentioning orwells participation in the spanish civil war really undercuts any of those arguments #5) you know who was actually allied with Hitler and Nazi Germany? STALIN #at the beginning of WWII the soviet union and nazi germany were in alliance. stalin and hitler did not have fundamental ideological #differences. if hitler had not betrayed stalin the soviet union would not have joined the allied powers #your uwu anti-fascist communist idol joseph fucking stalin was joseph fucking stalin. he was a fascist dictator whose actions deliberately #caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. he like vladimir lenin before him did not care for the ideals of marx #marxism leninism is a meaningless political ideology #the soviet union was not a communist paradise. neither stalin not lenin cared about the proletariat #i said this in my tag ramble yesterday but if you want to see a leader who actually followed marxist ideals go look up thomas sankara #im just rambling in the tags today to get out the lingering frustration i have

[sheirukitriesfandom]

Summer Reading/Writing/Arting Tag

@thequeenofthewinter (and I think domeone else too but there's nothing in my notifications 🤔) tagged me a while back but because I have a whole bunch of shit going on irl I've been feeling rather "socially drained" and putting all my free time into Italian and ESO.

So sorry for the wait 😅.

Tagging: @elavoria @skyrim-forever @alma-amentet @katastronoot @miraakulous-cloud-district @dirty-bosmer

1) Describe one creative WIP project you’re planning to work on over the summer.

I hope I'll finally finish ACoS: Foe so I can move on to the letter G (ACoS is based on a series of letter prompts). I also want to continue with my original writing project.

2) Rec a book!

I rarely get around to reading for myself rather than uni (two foreign languages = two literary canons, yay), so I'm going with an author I admire greatly. 

I recommend "The House* of Ulloa" (Los pazos* de Ulloa) by Emilia Pardo Bazán. 

The story is set in 19th century Galicia and follows the young priest Julian Alvarez, who becomes chaplain for the marquis of Ulloa. Upon his arrival at the run-down estate, he gets drawn into the intrigues between the marquis, Pedro Moscoso; his majordomo, a suspicious, brutish man named Primitivo; and Primitivo's daughter Sabel, who is the mother of Perucho, Pedro's illegitimate son.

The House of Ulloa is an example of the Spanish naturalist movement, so if you're a fan of minimalist style, this book probably isn't for you.

*House doesn't exactly equal pazo. A pazo is a manor house in the countryside which often looks a bit like a small castle.

(Pazo de Meiras, where EPB used to live. Sadly, it later became the summer home of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco...)

3) Rec a fic! 

A Dream of Empire by Melampus

I'll just let the summary do the work for me:

"The Empire was all Lyrian had ever known. From a simple war mage trainee to Fatebinder, she never looked back on her choices, assured of her life as a loyal servant of the Empire and the Overlord. The war of conquest for the Tiers changed that. The fires of war forged Lyrian into something else beyond a mere tool. War was an ugly, dirty thing, but Lyrian felt right at home in the grime of battle, the spilling of blood. She never aspired to more, yet the world simply laughed.

And yet, in the chaos of war, there was a constant that she gravitated around without truly realizing it. Or rather, someone.

The Fatebinder of Balance."

I love Lyrian and her relationship with Calio, I love the additions to Tyranny's worldbuilding, I love the way everyone is characterised—it's just a great fic for a great, underrated game.

4) Rec music!

I've been thinking long and hard about which Trve Kvlt metal band I'd talk about just to show off my ~~eclectic taste~~ but fuck, I wanna gush about Angelo Branduardi. 

I love Angelo Branduardi. 

He's a renown Italian folk/traditional/pop musician, author, film soundtrack composer, (small-time) actor and, relatively recently, voice actor for a point & click adventure game.  

His music spans an incredible range of genres, lyrics & time periods ranging from songs of medieval origin to quiet folk to singer/songwriter to pop. He's released 28 studio albums and 50 albums in total. My favourites are the "Futuro Antico'' albums which contain adaptations of traditional songs from different areas and time periods as well as languages.

For example, the other day I listened to "Loibere Risen" from the first Futuro Antico album and thought to myself "Wait a minute, that's not exactly German… but it sounds so German I can kinda understand it." It's a song from the 13th century sung in Middle High German… Other obscure languages and dialects, such as Occitan, also find their way onto those albums.

Many publications call Branduardi a "modern day bard" and I think that's an apt description so if you're in any way inclined towards folk and "Bard-ish" music (or are learning Italian and looking for an easy to understand singer), I recommend you check him out.

Oh, and Angelo Branduardi is also the voiceclaim for Chief Justiciar Valcarion, one of my ESO OCs.

 5) Share one piece of advice!

When it comes to creative activities, rules are there to be broken. 

For any creative expression there are so many guides out there telling you to do this and that and while you should understand why those rules exist, don't let them limit you. Write that experimental 500k word novel from the perspective of a goose, wear that weird outfit you find cool even if they tell you those colours don't go together or it's out of fashion, draw that proportion-defying figure even if people tell you that's not how it works. 

It's all about expression and it's all good as long as those deviations from the norm are your intent (rather than, say, trying to draw a proportional human being but failing and hiding behind style).

#tag games #talk music to me #Fun fact: Meiras still belonged to the Franco family when our class went there bc EPB and the tour guide was a stauch fascist #We were all very shocked and appalled at how openly the guy glorified the Spanish civil war+Franco #Meiras changed hands 1-2 years later so idk if that guy still works there #Spotify

[iiireflexiii]

David “Chim” Seymour Anti-fascist Women Making Bombs for the Fight Against Franco During the Spanish Civil War, Spain 1036

#david #chim #seymour #anti facist #women #making #bombs #fight #against #franco #during #spanish #spanish civil war #civil #war #spain #1036

[juegosintiperojuegocontigo]

#codeine #spanish civil war #francisco franco #lean #politics #spain #spanish dictatorship #wax statue

[quotesfrommyreading]

Spain underwent a civil war from 1936 to 1939, setting the stage for World War II. A band of military leaders headed by Franco rose up against the democratically elected Spanish government in 1936. Three violent years later, these fascist-leaning insurgents won the war, and Franco was installed as dictator.

Spain’s allegiance with the Nazis began with the Spanish Civil War. Hitler sent Condor Legion planes to bomb the northern city of Guernica—an event memorialized in a famous painting by Pablo Picasso—in 1937. Hitler also helped arm the military uprising against the democratic government throughout the civil war. Just a few years later, during World War II, Franco would return the favor by sending raw materials used to produce weapons of war to Hitler.

In the spring of 1939, half a million refugees streamed over the border from Spain to France to escape the violence, including hundreds of thousands of veterans who had fought for Spain’s elected government in the civil war.

Forced into refugee camps with little access to food and clean water along the beaches in southern France, they were given a choice: return to Spain, where they would be met with Franco’s violent revenge, or fight the Nazis.

Thousands enlisted as soldiers or manual laborers for the French Army. Others joined the French Resistance.

When France fell to the Nazis in 1940, Franco disowned the Spanish refugees he considered traitors. Germany deported 10,000 to 15,000 Spaniards to Nazi concentration camps. The Nazis killed about 60 percent of these Spanish refugees.

  —  Spain's Oft-Forgotten Nazi Ties

#sara j. brenneis #spain's oft-forgotten nazi ties #history #military history #art #art history #refugees #spanish civil war #bombing of guernica #ww2 #spain #france #francisco franco #pablo picasso #french resistance #stolpersteine #guernica (picasso)

[ammg-old2]

Walking down a tree-lined street in the Poble Sec neighborhood of Barcelona, one might easily miss a small bronze square set into the sidewalk. Stamped into the metal in the regional language of Catalan are the words: “Here lived Francesc Boix Campo, born 1920, exiled 1939, deported 1941, Mauthausen, liberated.”

Holocaust memorials like this one—which honors a Spanish survivor of a Nazi concentration camp—are part of a project that started in Germany but has expanded over the past few years across Europe and the United States.

These unassuming memorials hide a mighty purpose: making the victims of a traumatic past a visible and permanent part of the modern landscape.

In October, Spain’s current progressive government approved a new law—called the Democratic Memory Law—that recognizes Spaniards who suffered and died at the hands of the Nazis.

Among other measures, the law will create a census and a national DNA bank to help identify the thousands of Spaniards who were killed during World War II.

I am a scholar of Spain’s role in World War II and the Holocaust. The way the country has faced this disturbing past has evolved considerably in recent decades. Spain has publicly avoided the history of Spaniards killed in Nazi camps, who were victims of Adolf Hitler, but also of Francisco Franco, Spain’s dictator from 1939 to 1975.

This new law marks a shift, recognizing that the Spanish government has a role to play in reviving the memory of all of the victims of Spain’s dark years.

#history #military history #totalitarianism #fascism #nazism #politics #spanish politics #ww2 #holocaust #spanish civil war #bombing of guernica #spain #germany #nazi germany #france #francisco franco

[andrewckeeper]

LIDMF Classics “Franco´s Vengeance”

#franco #francisco franco #valle de los caídos #fallen ones #guerra civil #guerra civil española #civil war #spain #españa #spanish #pedro sánchez #tumba de franco #no prayer for the dying #iron maiden #heavy #metal #heavy metal #rock #hard rock #skulls #tomb #lol #lmao #wtf #xd #omg #ultratumba #tombstone #cemetery

[sulkingsmoke]

rm’s attempt to so blatantly rewrite the history of catalonia’s (and subsequently barça’s)  oppression from Franco’s regime is so distasteful.

you can’t pick and choose your own narrative just bcs you get called out on your own bullshit

#you are literally ignoring all the events of the spanish civil war #and franco LITERALLY supported rm because he saw their club as an opportunity to gain support in other european countries #WHY ARE YOU LYINGGG

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1944 – Death of politician, journalist, intelligence agent and paramilitary activist, Frank Ryan.

#OTD in 1944 – Death of politician, journalist, intelligence agent and paramilitary activist, Frank Ryan.

Frank Ryan was born in Co Limerick, in 1902. After leaving university he became an active member of the Irish Republican Army and fought in the Irish Civil War. In 1929 Ryan was appointed editor of An Phoblacht, the IRA newspaper. He was imprisoned several times over the following years for publishing seditious articles and for contempt of court. In 1931 he helped to organise the short-lived…

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#An Phoblacht #Dublin #Frank Ryan #General Franco #George Gilmore #Germany #Glasnevin Cemetery #IRA #Ireland #Irish Civil War #Nazi Germany #Peadar O&039;Donnell #Republican Congress #Saor Éire #Spanish Civil War

[sheltiechicago]

Evacuate Madrid, 1937

Vintage Propaganda Posters Of Spanish Civil War In 1937

The Spanish Civil War, fought from 1936 to 1939, was a complex conflict between the Republicans and Nationalists, both vying for control over Spain’s government and its future. The Republicans supported the left-leaning Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic and consisted of various socialist, communist, separatist, anarchist, and republican parties. On the other hand, the Nationalists were an alliance of Falangists, monarchists, conservatives, and traditionalists led by General Francisco Franco.

Help Spain, 1937

Internationalists, unite with Spanish people, 1937

Physical Training Helps You to Fight!, 1937

#spanish civil war in 1937 #spanish civil war 1936-1939 #vintage propaganda posters #posters #republicans #nationalists #spain #spanish government #general francisco franco

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

ive been staring at the words "Add something, if you'd like" for so long trying to figure how to remotely articulate whatever emotion im feeling in response to hearing someone stating - very confidently, i might add - that george orwell did not write anything substantial about the spanish civil war and francoist spain.

my guy, my dude, my man, my bloke, my chap, he took a bullet to the neck fighting against francos forces in the spanish civil war. its literally where a lot of his political leanings were cemented. i think that might have informed his later writing.

also he wrOTE HOMAGE TO CATALONIA. WHAT DO YOU THINK THAT BOOK IS ABOUT?

#kai rambles #im just #W H A T #can i sue this guy for psychic damage??????? #do i need to tag for the spanish civil war? #or franco? #my brain is so fried after hearing that take that im just #i feel like you could knock on my head and hollowness would ring out #comically loud #my brain is gone #WHAT DO YOU MEAN GEORGE ORWELL DIDNT SUBSTANTIALLY SPEAK OR WRITE ABOUT THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR? #HE FOUGHT IN IT #AND BY FOUGHT IN IT I MEAN HE WAS A BRITISH CITIZEN WHO JOINED THE PARTIDO OBRERO DE UNIFICACIÓN MARXISTA #HE FOUGHT ON THE FRONT LINES AND HAD TO FLEE TO LIKE FRANCE I THINK BECAUSE POUM WAS DECLARED ILLEGAL #CAN PEOPLE WHO DONT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT GEORGE ORWELL STOP TALKING ABOUT GEORGE ORWELL

[powerofthestruggle]

La Femme qui pleure Pablo Picasso 1937

#picasso #pablo #oil #canvas #london #surrealism #spanish civil war #civil war #franco

[hahahax30]

Next time someone groups Spain and France together I’ll fling myself off a building

#at least when it comes to contemporary history #after the Spanish civil war 500k Spaniards fled to France #and the French government ✨put them in concentration camps✨ #then they started forcing them to come back to Spain where Franco would likely ✨put them in concentration camps✨ #and when the ww2 reached France the French government forced thousands of the Spanish they’d put in concentration camp (and also spread #rumours about because apparently we were some kind of wild uncivilised tribe) to work for them aka they kinda enslaved them #the ones that weren’t working for france were fighting for them <3 #and when the nazis reached France and took the soldiers prisoners #the French government pretty much ✨sold the Spanish to the nazis so they could be put in concentration camp✨ #500k Spaniards first reached France and only 9k lived long enough to be sold into concentration camps #the rest had either died or been deported to Spain (where they were probably killed) #the French government were pretty much responsible for the death of almost half a million people #and I’m talking about the French government because random French people weren’t responsible for this #it wasn’t their fault that they’re government fed them racist bullshit #and I’m saying racist because idc who #might get angry with me Spain wasn’t perceived a white country for a good chunk of the 19th and 20th centuries many Europeans thought #that Africa started after the Pyrenees