An event in this article is a March 28 selected anniversary may be in HTML comment From Wikipedia Village pump How many images are too many I ve only ever seen one image I wanted to add the famous picture of the soldier shot in the head to the Spanish Civil War page as well as a typical propaganda poster of the times 0000 EDT 23 May 2002 IMO a couple more legal images would be fine The article only has 1 image after all 04 17 23 May 2003 UTC I ve recently brought over a lot of new content from the Spanish language wikipedia I ve done my best to integrate it but someone may want to take an editorial pass Also it seems to me that we ought to have several sidebar articles dealing with things like the internal situations in Madrid and Barcelona during the war and there should probably be a lot on Spanish anarchism and the various plitical parties of the time that either exists and should be linked to or doesn t and should be written 09 02 8 Jan 2004 UTC Could someone please explain the communism vs civilization comment in the intro Thanks 2004 03 14t09 29z An atttribution would certainly be nice and I didn t put it there but it s certainly on the mark as to how some viewed it I ve seen Hearst Movietone newsreels from the period and that is pretty much the picture they present It s also the rhetoric to be found in Franco s speeches during the war It had very little basis in reality in my opinion but leaned heavily on communist atheism and anitclericalism and the destruction of churches and in some cases torture murder etc of clergy and members of monastic orders that occurred in the opening weeks of the war I think the article is accurate in saying that the atrocities in those opening weeks were roughly equal but the fact that many on the Republican side targeted the Church was endlessly exploited in the Nationalists rhetoric and struck a note with conservatives elsewhere who otherwise might have kept more distance from fascism 17 55 14 Mar 2004 UTC Pro Nationalist link I for one am inclined to keep for the moment the recently added Professor Marek Jan Chodakiewicz on The Spanish Civil War There ought to be at least one external link to a site more sympathetic to the Nationalists than to the Republic However I don t think it is a particularly good site there must be a far more comprehensive presentation of this case maybe even with some decent footnotes and or external references itself elsewhere on the web If someone could find a better one and substitute it I think that would be an improvement Not Neutral I added the note The neutrality of this article is disputed because of the insistence in that General Franco or his forces were fascist This is just communist propaganda We know better now Communists wanted to overthrow the legal system of liberties in Spain to create a system similar to that of the Soviet Union General Franco and his coup prevented that Of course the Republican legality was not restored but that was because it had not proven safe from revolutionary risks And Monarchy was not restored probably because King Alfonso XIII fled the country only because his partisans lost a municipal ballot so it appeared to the victors in the war that that king was not reliable to grant individual rights Of course Franco s Dictatorship is more than objectionable but it does not prove that it was a fascist regime this was unsigned but it s User Makjavelo Frankly I think this one characterization does not make a non neutral article I disagree with much of what Makjavelo has just written but I do agree with him that the article or maybe an associated article might gain from a more extensive explanation of the somewhat complicated relationship of Franco s politics and Falangism in general to fascism as such 17 44 Jun 8 2004 UTC This seems like petty apology for Franco in my opinion Not only the communists but the anarchists socialists and most Republicans refered to the Francoist forces as fascist as well as many historians and authors e g Hemingway I forget the exact quote but a Christian clergyman who were notoriously right wing at the time in popular belief stated that Franco s regime was totalitarian because he controls all aspects of one s life which can be argued because of the high degree