WI: Republican Spain wins?

Would there be enough time for a second civil war before Germany comes knocking at the Pyrenees?
People don't normally ask both sides if they think they will have enough time to get the civil war in before something else comes up.
 
If Spain were at war with the Nazis and they occupied France I am guessing that the Pyranese mountains would help it defence itself, plus it would benefit from UK Naval power

British naval power could help in bringing in a limited amount of war material for Republican Spain, but would have almost no direct effect on a German attempt to break through the mountain barrier between France and Spain.
 
I think you misspelled "Stalinists."

In many respects, they and their allies like Negrin were much less hard left then the Left Socialists, Anarchists, POUM, etc.

No, I include the Communists (the Moscow-loyal Party which was therefore Stalinist) as part of the "hard", revolutionary Left, along with the Trots, POUM, the "maximalist" wing of the Socialists, and the anarchists.

For all these groups, the goal was the revolutionary overthrow of the existing state, establishment of a new revolutionary order, and total confiscation and redistribution of property.

Where the Communists differed was that they refrained from "revolutionary" violence when there was no chance of seizing complete power.

There were other elements of the Left: the moderate wing of the Socialists (e.g. Besteiro) and the Republican Left who were not even socialist.

Immediately after the rebellion, the hards ran wild in much of the Republican zone - except the Communists (disciplined) and Socialists (in the government, so they didn't need to displace it). Then there was a reaction

Most of the government and much of the Army was loyal, supporting continuation of the Republic, not "the soviets". The President (Azaña) was a Republican Left figure, not a socialist. The Catalonian nationalists/autonomists, and the Generalitat (regional government) supported the Republic which had conceded to them, against the Nationalists who would repress them - but were not socialist either.

There was also a bloc of people who had not supported the rebellion, and were passively loyal, but would oppose the Red program, including political centrists.

As the rebellion collapsed, there would be many moderates coming in. (Unless there was a continued Red Terror.) The post-victory regime would be moderated by the need to avoid provoking more resistance.

So the political scene would be a delicate balance, with the hard Left pushing toward revolution, but in an incoherent and divided way (Communists vs. Socialists vs. Trotskyites vs. anarchists), resisted by the Republican Left, the army (except for some junior officers, whom the Communists were cultivating), and the remaining centrists.

I cannot see the hard Left getting enough juice to lake over.

Another question is whether Spain remains neutral in 1939, or joins the UK and France in war on Germany. Between exhaustion from the war, natural reluctance, and the influence of the Communists (opposing war at Moscow's direction), I don't see Spain joining in. The one thing that might do so is if Germany intervened blatantly in the SCW. Though OTL, the Republic did not treat the Germans in Spain as a casus belli, there might be enough of a grudge left for Spain to seek revenge in the company of powerful allies.

It gets weird, because OT1H the Trots and anarchists would really hate the Nazis, but OTOH would balk at a conventional alliance with capitalist powers. The Communists would also be anti-Nazi - until ordered to reverse their position by Moscow. The centrists, army, and Republican Left would all prefer neutrality.
 
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