Communist Spain

Suppose the Republicians win the Spanish Civil War and Spain becomes communist. Now,lets assume they stay netural during WW2 as Spain did OTL. Now how, would a communist Spain affect the Cold War, how would NATO be different and what are Spain's relations with the Soviet Union like, does Spain join the Warsaw Pact or does it act more like Yugoslavia did OTL?
 
With a great distance from the Warsaw Pact countries, Spain might as well act like Yugoslavia if it went communist. Other than that, how do you make the Nationalists do worse and the Republicans do better?
 
And we may have to think about the war years. Even if it's neutral, I imagine a communist Spain would have subtle effects on World War II, though I don't know what those effects would be.
 
Well first of all if you what the Republicans to do better you have to stop the Communists from stamping out the Anarchists at least until after the war. Next have the SOviet Union send more aid than it did OTL.
 
Well, for one, the Allies could travel through it, if Stalin would allow it, although this assumes that they're beholden to Stalin, which I highly doubt. Why? If the Republicans win, it means that they dropped the Commissars, and beaten an opposition that had far more material support than they ever did.
 
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