I wonder about the Spanish gold reserves... Did the Soviets ever actually pay anyone using gold? Or did they mostly just default on everything and only pay loans as part of larger deals? And on a matter more closely related to Spain, how was the treatment of Riffians before the war? I know that during it the Nationalists had a mass 'baptism' and used them as troops in mainland Spain. Apparently some Spaniards would frustrated that they kept taking pots and pans from locals, but that was more because they found it inconvenient to ship it back to the families of those from the Rif, though knew that it was good advertisement that Riffians could get war booty.