I was in a bar in Dublin with people talking about their grand dads and great uncles in the International Brigade in Spain, a couple of weeks back.  A socialist government was democratically elected in Spain so the right mounted a coup, the left fought back but were defeated.  This helped pave the way for world war two and there was a similar scenario in Chile in 1973 when Allende was kicked out 
 
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