When choosing between evil and evil, you can always choose good(franco debate)

[lars573]

I always thought that the Republicans were in fact fairly moderate and democratic, but were often misunderstood internationally as the far-left faction, and that was why many workers from the Clydeside and other areas of Scotland went to fight for them.

Wasn't quite that clean. The socialists were pro-democracy more or less. Problem is that they were in a coalition with the Spainish communists (the darkside of a PR system). Which really worked against them. The pro-church and pro-monarchy conservative factions really didn't trust the communists. And in the 1935 parlimentary elections there were "voting irregularities." The conservatives blamed them on the government. But really the blame could be put to the really fringe elements of both ruling parties. Which lead to the socialist/communist government becoming more authoritarian. Which led the army in Morroco to revolt. Which led to the civil war.