The Spanish Civil War

Well, the fascists were the ones rebelling, so you could say that they were liberated from a fair republican form of government. Those aristocrats wanted to keep the fray subdued. In any historical and democratic terms it wasn't liberating at all because the victory expanded the Hitler/Mussolini fascist cause. I did a research paper on the Spanish Civil War this year and one of my sources quoted a veteran of the volunteer Abraham Lincoln brigade as saying that if the democratic nations had gotten involved and supported the republicans as much as Hitler and Mussolini supported the Nationalists then World War 2 probably would have never happened. I tend to think that if they had gotten involved the Spanish Civil War would have turned into World War 2.