Assertion: anarchist | /r/CapableOf | lose ground
Facets:
value: before the fascist victory in 1939
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: In response to the army rebellion, an anarchist-inspired movement of peasants and workers, supported by armed militias, took control of Barcelona and of large areas of rural Spain where they collectivised the land, but even before the fascist victory in 1939 the anarchists were losing ground in a bitter struggle with the Stalinists, who controlled the distribution of military aid to the Republican cause from the Soviet Union.