AHC/WI: Succesful Invasion of Val d'Aran

In 1944, members of the Unión Nacional Española, mostly communists from the PCE after the Allied liberation of Southern France tried on October 19th to invade Spain from France with 5,000 soldiers/maquis.

However they utterly failed, being driven back by 50,000 Francoist soldiers led by José Moscardó. Is there any possibility for them to succeed? Or to be somehow backed by the Allies? If so, what would be consequences of a liberation of Spain?
 
The problem with getting support from the Allies is that:

1. The Allies are kind of busy at the moment. "One war at a time."

2. Franco did not cooperate with Hitler when it would have been advantageous to him to do so. Supporting an attempt by exiled Republicans to overthrow him doesn't set a good precedent.
 
That would be extremly hard.
It failed, partially because it didn't encountered a support in a population that was exhausted by the Civil War and whom the republican political cadres were or exiled or slaughtered.

Then more than the line of "one war at once", the fact the republican maquis during the operation was massivly communist or communist sympathiser didn't helped to make the western Allies particularly open to helping them.

One solution could be a different Resistence movement in France where De Gaulle plays only a minor role and where the PCF and the FTP (Francs Tireurs Partisans) manage to became the focalising point of different left-wing and centrist resistence movments.

It could evolve into forming a transitional government in France far more encline to support such operation from spanish Republicans and helping to make them keep a territory within the Val d'Aran (that is on the north side of Pyrenees towards France, and easily blockable if the road towards the south is military blockaded).
 
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