![]() ![]() ![]() Some countries - Britain and France, for instance - did just that. ![]() All hell could be - and was - let loose there, and the rest of Europe could stick its fingers in its ears and turn the other way. The conflict, after all, was contained in a country which only borders two others, Portugal and France it's on the edge of Europe, almost surrounded by sea. Probably most of us know something about the Spanish Civil War: that it took place in the 1930s that it was fought between the Republicans and General Franco's forces, and that Franco won that lots of idealistic young people from other countries went to Spain to fight for the Republic perhaps we know also that some of the atrocities that took place remained hidden for decades, and are still now only just coming to light.īut probably even these things we only know in a hazy sort of way. ![]()
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