#OtD 12 Aug 1936 after the French government shut the border with revolutionary Spain, the first international volunteers who were going to join the fight against the fascists began crossing the Pyrenees mountains on foot https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/spanish-civil-war?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
The fascists win, and make up the government of Spain until the 1970s when the fascist dictator died of old age and his successor decided he'd rather not be a fascist dictator, and instead helps to install a Democratic constitutional monarchy.
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