AHC: Spanish Civil War ends in a "Taiwan stalemate"

[mlp]

With a POD at 1900, make a scenario where the Republicans OR Nationalists successfully survive the civil war by escaping to a geographically defendable area, i.e. Spanish Morocco or the Balearic Islands.

 

[Uruk]

With a POD at 1900, make a scenario where the Republicans successfully survive the civil war by escaping to a geographically defendable area, i.e. Spanish Morocco or the Balearic Islands.

Its kind of impossible as the Balerics, Canaries and Morocco were nationalist strongholds

 

[Corbell Mark IV]

Its kind of impossible as the Balerics, Canaries and Morocco were nationalist strongholds

Mmm, so Spanish Morocco as a Nationalist stronghold would work?

 

[Sharunaku]

Mmm, so Spanish Morocco as a Nationalist stronghold would work?

If the Republican Navy was more loyal and the two Canarias-class didn't got seized by the Nationalists, then it's possible for them to prevent the troops not already in Iberia from participating. Maybe also let Sanjuro live but stuck in Africa, destabilizing the Nationalist chain of command?

 

[TumblrShipper]

Perhaps a stalemate using 1937 lines where the front stabilized? No offensive to link up Madrid with Catalonia and less meddling aid from the USSR and aid from the UK?

 

[eliphas8]

Perhaps a stalemate using 1937 lines where the front stabilized? No offensive to link up Madrid with Catalonia and less meddling aid from the USSR and aid from the UK?

Really you need to have the Aid that was being given get given out properly, the communists used the Aid as a cudgel and only really supplied units allied to themselves. A fair distribution of arms would have dearly helped the militias. Orwell played some armchair generalizing on how the front he was on in Catalunya could have been better managed into a victory.

 

[TumblrShipper]

Really you need to have the Aid that was being given get given out properly, the communists used the Aid as a cudgel and only really supplied units allied to themselves. A fair distribution of arms would have dearly helped the militias. Orwell played some armchair generalizing on how the front he was on in Catalunya could have been better managed into a victory.

As I said, no 'meddling' aid from USSR. Given only the pro-Stalinist communist party of spain was dicking with the aid. The libertarian communist POUM for example,was not that way. Maybe Trotsky stays in power in USSR and from that aid is evenly sent and the Trotsky led USSR is less willing to dick around with Anarchist groups (suppressing Krondstadt is one thing, but dicing around with those in other countries which is not a direct threat to USSR is another thing)

 

[mlp]

As I said, no 'meddling' aid from USSR. Given only the pro-Stalinist communist party of spain was dicking with the aid. The libertarian communist POUM for example,was not that way. Maybe Trotsky stays in power in USSR and from that aid is evenly sent and the Trotsky led USSR is less willing to dick around with Anarchist groups (suppressing Krondstadt is one thing, but dicing around with those in other countries which is not a direct threat to USSR is another thing)

And, em...
how would Trotsky stay in power and not be ousted?

 

[Dan1988]

There was talk at the end of the SCW towards turning Llívia into a free territory of the Republic, which didn't work out as planned. It would, however, be interesting if that actually happened.

 

[mlp]

There was talk at the end of the SCW towards turning Llívia into a free territory of the Republic, which didn't work out as planned. It would, however, be interesting if that actually happened.

So basically... another Monaco? pretty sad ending for a nation that fought a war that brought many Socialists together

 

[Admiral Fischer]

So basically... another Monaco? pretty sad ending for a nation that fought a war that brought many Socialists together

And here's the best part; Hitler might occupy Llívia and 'return' the territory to Franco just after the Battle of France, anyway.