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Beyond the differences, two points in common: arms deliveries and engagement of foreign troops. But what roles had they played in 1936?
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By Francois-Guillaume Lorrain
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Iarms deliveries from Europe. Spontaneous departure of volunteers. Mutatis mutandis, the war in Ukraine is very reminiscent of that in Spain. Admittedly, it was then a civil conflict, but Russians and Ukrainians have long been part of the same country and the war in Donbass already looked like it. As for the ideological content instilled by Vladimir Putin aimed against a decadent and hostile West, it was also flagrant in 1936. Let us quote General Franco who, in a letter delivered to Hitler via German intermediaries after a representation of the Siegfried from Wagner to Bayreuth, invoked a struggle “against democracies and the destructive forces of communism”.
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