Will Kürlich Kerl
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Challenge: Have a revolution similar to the 1979 Iranian Revolution go off in Spain, with similar results.
The problem with "Iran-esque" Catholic revolutions in ANY place, is that Catholicism is a centralized global religion and has been for quite a while.
You just can't have a "Catholic Revolution" in one country without affecting the rest of the world, as emerged pretty clearly in the discussion of the parallel thread about such a thing in Italy.
I tried damn hard to get such a thing half-plausible in post-1900 Italy; with Italy being quite the centre of Catholicism, it can arguably be said to have some degree of sense, although there are quite large holes in the scenario I sketched.
Having such a thing possible in Spain is another matter altogether. In a sense, it depends on how much Iran-esque you want it; if the requirements are lax enough, a more religiously oriented version of the *Francoist regime could do. However, actual similarities between Falangist Spain and Revolutionary Iran are really few, at least for what I understand of Franco's regime.
Probably the way to go would be a Republican victory that turns nasty a has a Catholic backlash some decades later. Still almost impossible without some quite massive change to the Church itself that no amount of political change in Spain alone (as opposed to Italy) is likely to trigger.
Not to mention the Church having formal political power is something the 20th Century Church rarely sought. I mean, you had Tiso in Slovakia, a few MPs here and there, but actual control? ASB.
It actually happened from 1939 onwards.
Probably the way to go would be a Republican victory that turns nasty a has a Catholic backlash some decades later. Still almost impossible without some quite massive change to the Church itself that no amount of political change in Spain alone (as opposed to Italy) is likely to trigger.