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

[CountArach]

So what's the choice then? Fascism or communism? Or Fascism or democracy? Communism or democracy?

I'm a bit rusty on the Spanish Civil War, I don't recall anyone fighting just for democracy in it. I thought it was a straight left/right wing ideology thingy.

I'm happy to be educated though.

The Socialist/Communists/Anarchists were the Democratically elected Government and hence they could claim to be fighting for Democracy. In reality though they could largely be considered the Stalinist wing of Spanish politics. The Nationalist Right revolted against the Government not long after the elections and as such the war was fought. It took on a heavily ideological tone for that reason.