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Carlos Mendez de Vigo's avatar

I enjoyed reading your article. Anthony Beevor’s book was my preferred. As a Spaniard living abroad and having the chance of seeing things from outside Spain, I would only add that the socialist government of Pedro Sanchez has been hellbent on re-opening those wounds. VOX is a consequence of that policy

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JSev's avatar

clear parallels. question is - what could the precedent conflicts be today - Ukraine? Israel-Gaza? middle east volatility aka Syria, Libya?

another q would be how to categorize regimes with social democracy v. authoritarians and their records so far (win-loss)

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