The Pete Quiñones Show - Episode 1291: Women in the Spanish Civil War w/ Karl Dahl

Episode Date: November 11, 2025

75 MinutesPG-13Karl Dahl is an author specializing in the Spanish Civil War and historical "fiction."Karl returns to compare the women of the Right and the women of the left in the Spanish Civil WarNow and then: Women in the Spanish Civil WarFaction: With the CrusadersKarl's SubstackKarl's MerchPete and Thomas777 'At the Movies'Support Pete on His WebsitePete's PatreonPete's SubstackPete's SubscribestarPete's GUMROADPete's VenmoPete's Buy Me a CoffeePete on FacebookPete on TwitterBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-pete-quinones-show--6071361/support.

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Awesome. Awesome. Hey, if you're here, let's talk about a little more about the Spanish Civil War. And let's go in a completely different direction than we've done before. When I read this, I was like, yeah, this information has to get out there because not only does this speak to the time they were in, but I think it definitely speaks to a lot of the conversations that we have now as far as women in politics and, you know, conversations like. that. Oh, yeah. I'll just let you go. All right. So, as in our last recording, my Spanish correspondent and friend Morgor, he'd been helping me with some research and translation and then started, he was really inspired by the assassination of Charlie Kirk to talk about. like a realistic perspective on the similarities and differences between Spain of the 30s and the United States now, as well as just kind of the meta-global, kind of European political scene. And so he keeps coming across all this really interesting information.

And so he's been writing these articles. I just apply a tiny bit of polish to them because some stuff doesn't translate perfectly from Spanish to English. And so I'm just happy to be sharing those. But yeah, this one is a banger. Women in the Spanish Civil War. And, you know, putting together my Substack article and you can read this, read along with us at CarlDall. dot substack.com. That's K-A-R-D-A-H-L-Substack.com. And the subtitle I gave it is the natural order versus progressive delusion. So let's dive right into it. I'll read along and Pete will pipe up

when he wants to add some comments. There will be plenty more coming on this topic, including a full article on one of the women who's mentioned herein and as well as Largo Caballero, which is going to be super interesting because there just isn't a ton of great single source information about Largo Caballero in English. That's awesome. All right. Great. So we begin.

Women are important. No matter what we say, think or do. in our heart of parts, we know that women are very important to any healthy society or movement. We have all indulged in comments about foids, women moments, and whatnot, rightfully criticizing the behavior and habits of the vast majority of modern women, but we know that despite their behavior flaws and the many things men cannot comprehend about them, which transcends time, women are important. This is a constant, as true in the past as it remains today, no matter how many years go by or how our

ideas may have changed. A properly functioning movement needs both men and women. It can be divided by gender subgroups for men and women, as in the Falunhe, but we need places of honor for both. I learned some time ago that a man is a product of his experience, while a woman is a product of her environment. This truism is illustrated by the years leading up to and during the Spanish Civil War, a tumultuous time of change, with new ideas, mentalities, and organizations, which also changed women in many different ways. During the last years of the dictatorship, in the early years of the Republic, there was

considerable growth in workers' unions and left-wing associations. Initially, these groups focused upon working men, as most women in Spain did not work. Around 24% of women were employed at the time, with more than 80% of those being widows or single. But most women during the late 1920s joined Catholic associations as well as welfare or mutual aid organizations. because at the time it would have been done privately in Spain, in the United States, etc. So the rise of left-wing organizations and workers unions in the 1930s saw a steady increase in the number of working women, mainly from humble families from Andalusia, Austurius, Catalonia, and Basque Country, who formed the main bulk of those organizations' female membership, along with,

outliers, such as the occasional daughter of a wealthy family, intellectuals, or aspiring politicians, which are so common today. As the left saw a steady rise in both manpower and influence within the Republic, reactionary right-wing organizations also developed and grew their own institutions. These organizations began with the old religious unions and welfare organizations, which could be transformed into something new, or else were abandoned, in favor of a more fitting structure. The moderate right-wing organizations allowed female participation, but others, like the Falanghe, did not allow female membership. For this, women created their own parallel all-female organizations as a complementary wing of the one they

wished to join. Such was the case of the Session Feminina female section, which began as a student's union which evolved into the support wing of the Falunhe, led by the scrumptious Pilar Primo de Rivera, sister of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, the leader of the Falunhae. Most women who joined right-wing organizations were religious women from all walks of life, from college-day aged women to daughters and wives, from wealthy families, and the nobility. There was a substantial divide between the left and right in how women contribute and took action. Each side bears the names of important women who played significant roles. The lovely Pilar Primo de Rivera with her chud jaw and Mercedes-San-Boschiler.

So two great women of the Spanish right were Mercedes-San-Bashiler and the aforementioned Pilar Primo de Rivera. Mercedes-San-Bashiler founded the Auxial or Social Aid, which initially served as a welfare organization focused upon poverty relief in the countryside via food says rationing, but really provisioning at this stage, closed distribution, and providing health care. When the Civil War broke out, the Auxelio Social expanded into a support wing for the army and was soon in charge of providing aid to the civilian population within liberated zones through field kitchens, hospitals, and the managed distribution of rationed supplies. Pilar Primo de Rivera founded the Session Feminina, or female section, support wing of the Falange, mentioned before. Their initial responsibilities focused upon communication with imprisoned Falunhe members, propaganda, and aiding the members, the families of members of the Falunhe killed by the left,

of whom there were many. When war broke out, the Sessione Feminina grew into an extremely important movement aiding the civilian population within the nationalist zone in the same manner as the Auxelio Social. These two organizations, which eventually developed a rivalry, grew into immense formal operations with the Sessione Feminina reaching 900,000 members by the end of the Civil War. In the post-war Franco era, men were compelled into mandatory military service, while women were required to engage in social service via one or the other of these two organizations. While some readers will understand neither the importance nor the dignity of the women serving in these critical supporting roles, we cannot deny their relevance in securing the final victory.

So I have two, yes, sir. Well, what's interesting about this is that, so take the war in Vietnam, okay? United States invades Vietnam, and any kind of help that's being done in there is either going to be done. There'll be foreign aid, there'll be Vietnamese who would, actually do it it's really different this being a civil war anyone coming in from the outside to help you would i mean i would look at as with suspicion yes you know because you this is a war where you did have foreign you know foreign outfits coming in um you had foreign divisions coming in the United States, Germany, Russia, there's, I mean, pretty much England, France, you know,

it's really, it's really important that, you know, you have women in a civil war, that it's women who are from there. And, you know, obviously, they're going to choose sides. I mean, someone with the last name, Primo de Rivera, you know, with a, with a moniker Prima de Rivera is going to be, obviously on one side. So, yeah, I just thought I'd put that in there that if you're having a civil war, you probably do not want any, you'd be hesitant to have, quote, unquote, volunteers coming in on your side. Absolutely.

Yeah. And the, the Republic had largely, I mean, at the local level, women were essentially conscripted also into these workers, bands, and everything. So they helped, to some degree. We'll get into that in a moment. But to your point, there was a significant bit of foreign aid where foreigners were doing the distribution, and it was heavily communist. There were some religious, I want to say it was the Quakers, had some fairly

decent numbers, but it was nothing like mobilizing the whole society in the way that the nationalists did. So, all right. So we have some nice propaganda posters here. And as noted in the kind of the script here, the Spanish rights women were never delusional. They have women supporting the men in the field and the women responding to take care of Spain, you know, in response to, you know, the, basically the refugee crisis in destroyed cities. So it's the, it's very good framing. So the remainder of this article will focus upon the women of the left, excuse me, of whom the most, the most, most ardent, rabbit, and militants saw their dreams and delusions fade to dust, as the true goals of their movement were realized. Liberation, in quotes, drove them to destroy the virtue of other women. Their ideals led them to be betrayed by everyone around them, the moment reality set in. This last is the case of Clara Campo Amor, one of the first and perhaps most important

feminists in Spain, a woman from a humble family, who, after a tremendous struggle, became a divorce lawyer and eventually a politician in the moderate left, in fact the first woman to serve in the courtes. During her time as a politician, she worked tirelessly to gain voting rights for women, a proposition that was ironically opposed by fellow feminist politicians, such as Victoria Kent and Margarita Nelkin, last name check, who stated that, quote, women brainwashed by the church do not deserve the vote lest we give victory to the right, unquote. You know when someone says, oh, you know, whatever power you take while you're in power,

when you're out of power, whoever gets in power is just going to use it against you. I mean, that's literally what I'm reading here. Yes, exactly. Yep. I mean, I'm not saying I agree with that, especially with the left in this country. I mean, when has when has the left ever needed an excuse to increase their power once they're going on. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. All right. This statement may surprise some readers or listeners, but note that many prominent interwar figures on the right promoted the female franchise for that precise reason. Spanish women, would eventually achieve the franchise, with their first national engagement taking place in 1934, which the right won, substantially. This marked the end of Clara Campo Amor's reputation and political career, as the 1934 electoral defeat caused the left to actively disregard the issue of women's political rights. Campo Amor made an attempt to launch her own political party, but her reputation was

destroyed, and joining another left-wing party was out of the question. She fled to France shortly after the Civil War broke out, but not without first witnessing and testifying to the lies of the leftist government and the lack of order, discipline, and honor of the leftist militias who often confronted and murdered their own officers. So there's Frumpy Claudia Who realized that it was all in vain

You know We just really have to thank Leftists for murdering their own officers This just does the work Yeah That's just work that doesn't have to be done A nice compounding effect All right

Okay, so The newborn's Second Spanish Republic of 1931 was one of the most progressive governments in Europe regarding women's rights in certain aspects. The Constitution recognized women as eligible for public service

as well as election to parliament and in 1932 both civil union laws and a divorce law, were passed. That said, quote-unquote liberation was still a long road ahead as women faced severe disadvantages in the labor market, such as explicit, codified, wage discrimination, a lack of unemployment benefits in the unavailability of medical insurance. This, coupled with the spirit of the time, led many single working women, whether widows, mothers or not,

to form the bulk of women supporting the left. The Spanish leftist political parties of the time fit broadly into three groups, the anarchists of the CNT, the Spanish Communist Party, or PCE, and the Socialist General Workers Union, the UGT. During the electoral era of the Republic, these three organizations didn't attract a great number of female members, with their numbers barely breaking 500 at best. When the Civil War broke out, these organizations saw an immense surge in female membership, with the CNT gaining a peak of 30,000 female members in 1938,

or about 80% of female militants participating in this civil war, with about 16% of female militants in the PCE, the communists, and the remaining 4% in the UGT, the Socialist General Workers Union. Despite female enthusiasm for anarchism, the communists controlled about 40% of all left-wing committees, and the Soviets had a lock on arms distribution and leadership within the Republican army and militias, which meant that all organizations would effectively fall into the hands of the communists,

As the Civil War dragged on, their claws sank in deeper. The most prominent and influential left-wing female organization during both the Republic and the war was the Union de Mujeres Antifascist Women's Union, the UMA, created in 1933 by the Communist International, gasp. This organization was outlawed in Spain in 1934 after the October Revolution. or the Asturian Revolution, Asturian Revolution, Asturian uprising, etc. But it was rebranded as pro Infanthia Obrera or Working Mother's Support, an organization which supported leftist militants affected by or actively involved in the revolt of 1934. After the victory of the left, quote unquote, side note, stolen victory, in 1934, In 1936 elections, the PIO was once again renamed the Anti-Fascist Women's Union, or UMA, which received enormous support from the government. Again, this is a communist organ. When the civil war began, the UMA was officially incorporated into the government as the Commission de Aogilio Feminino, the Female Aid Commission, an organization directly under the control of the Ministry,

of war and in charge of organizing and distributing Spanish women within the war industry. When the war began, the UMA had around 50,000 members, and it promoted the, quote, liberation of women through the workers' struggle in order to transform society, end quote. This organization saw a sharp decline in membership, however, when many women realized that their duties were limited to support and manufacturing. There was a similar trend among the PCE and the UGT, who firmly believed that women should only engage in support roles aiding male soldiers. Meanwhile, the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification, or P.O.U.M., which was Orwell's militia, advocated for allowing women to join the fight on the front as staff and drill sergeants, as well as engaging in legitimate. and serving as quartermasters. This firm position on their role in the war by the Communists and Socialists is likely the main reason 80% of leftist women flocked to the anarchists, women who yearned to take the fight to their purported

enemies, to be truly equal with men, or perhaps they were attracted by the extremely high wage of ten pesetas, which the anarchists paid the members of their militias. And so I note here, this is perhaps the most famous image of Spanish Civil War Girl Power, translator and cutie pie Marina Githena, member of the Unified Socialist Youth Org of the Spanish Communist Party, an assistant to Mikhail Koltsov, Pravda Correspondent. Here she poses with the Mauser in Barcelona in July 1936. T. He.

women were all sorry it's amazing it's amazing how many women can get taken in by thinking that like i mean her clothes are brand new uh she never held a rifle again for the rest of the war for the record it was strictly propaganda yeah it i mean it was and it was oh she she did this and she was executed because she was such a um she was such a powerful soldier okay yeah she actually she actually ran to France very quickly. So, but people couldn't find her until she came forward in like the 90s or something right before she passed away. So she had never seen the picture interestingly, or she claimed that she had never

seen the picture. So hilarious. Communist propaganda. Again, Pravda. Pravda people. Women were also prominent within the short-lived Frentee popular government of 1936. a government characterized by radical and detrimental left-wing policies. Most know of famed communist Dolores Iberuri,

who controlled most left-wing parties in the Cortes on behalf of the Soviets. While the second most prominent Spanish female leftists was Frederica Monstani, the first female minister in the cabinet of Largo Caballero, her noteworthy achievements as Minister of Healthcare and Social Issues for Barcelona, were to decriminalize abortion and to aid those who sought it as well as to legalize prostitution as part of her campaign yeah that's just that's just that's just helping in the war effort i mean come on it's wild it's just i mean it's it's just i mean it's exactly what you would think it's i mean it's another version of every single time oh yeah oh yeah

as part of her campaign to establish libertarian communism she pressured the republic to finance brothels which soon led barcelona the most important city within republican territory to become a den of vice and then here is the excrable frumpy disgusting dolores ivoruri who shouted to uh hose calvo so tello the day he was executed this is your last speech in the cortes once the civil war began pardon me the frente popular government quickly mobilized their organizations and members against the nationalist uprising distributing weapons to the populace mainly through the labor unions and incorporating the many leftist militias into their squalid army the mobilization received overwhelming support from these organizations with enormous participation by female combatants. During the summer of 1936,

the image of the female fighter became a staple in the republic. These women were motivated to join the fight for an array of stated motives, leftist ideology, defending the rights they had gained during the republic, revenge for a dead relative or friend. Many joined up with their husbands, boyfriends, and some even with their children. Most women were initially assigned support duties in the army, but an immense number saw armed combat in one way or another. The most surprising trend was the average age of the female combatants, 16 years old, and the most common lifestyle these women came from, which later caused both serious and even hilarious problems. So here is a classic example of a C&T militia poster with a female holding

the flag leading the men who kneel before her because she's so cool. A black and red flag. Yes, a black and red flag. A squad of simps for every woman, the ultimate dream. The inclusion of women at the front lines was heavily supported by several female figures of the left, Dolores Ibaruri, the most ardent among them, with others, such as the aforementioned anarchist Federica Monseni, calling every woman of the left to join the fight against fascism. This call was soon picked up by the Republican government as a powerful propaganda tool to boost their recruitment among the civilian population, the image of the fighting woman, uniform and armed against the fascist became its main hook for recruitment drives in order

to push men to fight on the front lines. In the early months of the Civil War, the Republic constantly showed the image of the militia woman, enshrined her as the, quote, heroin of the nation, unquote, and lauded the women who moved with, quote, unquote, manly demeanor to push men to join their female comrades on the front and take the fight to the enemy. As we know now this is not a winning strategy it's just uh hi i'm i got nothing yeah so here's an example katalan flag um black and red anarchist flag and a red communist flag with a woman uh saying that the basically that the the militants need us um The women who joined the fight initially enjoyed special privileges in combat,

in addition to a gleaming reputation and public support. Women were incorporated into the militias without specific orders, but within the first few weeks, they gained privileges above their prestige, such as being quickly promoted or being capable of disregarding orders from their superiors without consequence. By the end of August 1936, there were two female, only battalions within the Republic. Can you imagine? One in Mallorca and the other on Asturius. Despite their prestige and the initial ease of duty, the first cracks in this illusion began to appear both on the front lines and in the rear. Many women filled the vacuum

left by men joining the war to work in steel mills, foundries, and the many factories whose workers were now in the army or militias. The sudden influx of women in these activities caused a clash between them and the men who stayed in the rear, who often saw them as unfit or unqualified to perform those jobs, as well as an invasion of the workplace in fields, which until then had been only performed by men. And the women demanded the same wages and better working conditions. keep in mind this is a very militarized labor universe so these are very assertive people if you've ever worked in a union shop and you've seen scabs come in this is exactly what is taking place here that that's the perception so despite their alleged

ideological affinities the men and women at the factories began to butt heads with the men defending their territory, which for so long had been theirs alone, and the women bringing a battering ram to attempt to demolish barriers to entry. The most strike, sorry, go ahead. There's a war going on. Let's turn it into a labor issue. Well, I mean, yeah, exactly. And if we see this now where, like, leftist labor unions are, you know,

know, pushing diversity in which breaks up cohesion and allows for, you know, cuts in wages and everything like that. And it's just this, this conflict that just has no choice but to explode right there on the surface. And like you said, there's a war going on. So imagine this. The most striking and extreme problems between. men and women happened on the front lines. Initially, the gleaming reputation of the militia women held,

but the propaganda primarily attracted more women than men, and the women were as concerned with breaking the old and tested gender roles as they were with joining the fight. What a surprise. Several women became legendary Republican war heroes, such as Lena O'Dana, Casilda Mendez, and Margarita Perez. But a radical paradigm shift began in October of 1936, barely three months into the Civil War, when radical socialist Francisco Largo Caballero became head of the government and sought to directly manage the war. His approach to the war was not ideological, but very pragmatic, so he surrounded himself with career officers and generals, who strengthened the position of professional military officers in the field. This was the beginning of the end for the militia women, as at the time a number of glaring problems with women on the front lines arose, which ultimately led to the Largo-Cabayero government, barring them completely from combat roles.

The greatest challenge was that many men saw the militia women as unfit, unprepared, and unqualified as combatants, particularly the Republican officer corps, who had been military professionals, before the Civil War broke out. This created a wide rift between the military command and ideologically driven militia members who sided with their female peers. A second issue stem from the reputation militia women developed, as many of them were held in higher esteem among the militias than the professional officers, and thus the militias followed their orders rather than those of their superiors. Oh, my God. Yeah, what a surprise. This led many units to clash directly with their officers and sometimes even murder their superiors,

which led some career officers who had remained loyal to the Republic to defect to the nationalists rather than lead troops who might kill them over a disagreement. And I think it's also like they realized what was going on. This trend, on top of how unprepared the average militia member was for actual combat, whether a man or a woman, led to an extreme combat ineffectiveness in the early months of the year, only mitigated by their sheer numbers. So here is a Catalan propaganda poster after the pivot to reality. no more girl power it's anti-fascist women get sowing and taken care of sick kids and are wounded soldiers

maybe maybe get to those brothels and make yourself useful that will pop up again here in just a moment as a matter of fact ultimately these issues and the lack of manpower in critical industry support roles, ended the fantasy of plucky militia women fighting both the nationalists and gender norms. As noted previously, this is so funny, I just can't help but laugh while I'm reading it. As noted previously, many women supported the war effort on the factory production lines, but not enough. And without properly functioning factories, the Republic would run dry of weapons, munitions, supplies, and food very quickly. Understanding the severity of this problem, Largo Cabellero gave the order to withdraw all women from the front lines and that they be assigned to work in support roles at hospitals and field kitchens.

This decision was accepted by all of the parties, political parties, which supported the Republic, and was spun to appease women so that they didn't feel they'd abandoned the front. Dolores Ibaruri spoke of women as, quote, motherly hero. unquote, and hoped they would mobilize to the factories and hospitals to fight there for a better future for their husbands and children. Even anarchist organizations, those who had promoted putting women on the front lines the most, began to speak about the, quote, unquote, true femininity of women, possessed of a, quote, delicate softness unique to female psychology, unquote, and that they should oppose violence in every way in support.

the soldiers with quote-unquote motherly care. This radical shift was seen as a terrible betrayal by countless women, particularly the anarchists, who remained outspoken about their quote-unquote rights to be on the front alongside their male peers. Despite the Republic's orders, or perhaps because of them, the anarchists refused to withdraw women from the front lines. I should say some did, which caused big problems. Who would think that, like, anarchists would be against taking orders? Imagine. Being, being led.

That's, I'm shocked. It's delightful. The anarchist versus republic struggles are the funniest, uh, imaginable because of the sheer volume of dead, anarchists who resulted. All right. The final lesser-known reasons for withdrawal of women from the front lines are

definitely the most interesting and perhaps hilarious. As explained previously, a certain type of woman joined the anarchist militias in droves shortly after the war broke out. Women from a particular and not very wholesome way of life. A plurality of leftist

female recruits, around 45% of the women who joined the fight, were prostitutes. This was narrated by the aforementioned Clara Campoamore in her book, La Revolution Vista for Una Republican, Spanish Revolution witnessed by a Republican woman. She wrote, In the beginning, more dire events took place, ready to take advantage of this situation all women of quote unquote joyful life prostitutes yes which was heavily promoted by these feminist heroes and my my theory is like if you look at the sows that promote the stuff they're just like imagining like men coming to them and which just would not happen because they're gross.

Oh, sorry. Sorry for the diversion. Okay, joyful life whom war doomed to a life of unemployment disappeared from the cities and joined along many others who fought in the militia with respectable feelings and sincere faith. I can imagine, as a consequence, the frenzy which took hold of the front lines and how many soldiers had to be hospitalized.

This revelation became the main weapon to destroy the reputation of the women fighting with the militias as the politicians soon had no qualms about saying that they were prostitutes and made public the fact that on certain fronts men were sent to the sick bay more often for STDs than being shot. Who could have? No one could have predicted this at all, right? Most of the women who joined the military were outraged by this campaign that sought to shame them in the eyes of the public with the most vocal declaring it calumny from the, quote, horrific patriarchal leadership, unquote, of the Republic. Some politicians who participated in the campaign to drive compliance with the republic's order, openly addressed the fact that certain camps on the front lines had become little more than whorehouses for soldiers. The most prominent was the psychologist and politician

Felix Martí Ibanez, who made great guitars, and who claimed that most of the women in the militia used their time on the front lines to, quote, mercantilize their bodies, unquote, violating male chastity. for their own gain and quote robbing men of their magnificent energy reserves unquote this is like this is like something literally out of like if you were doing like parody in cell oh my god like literature and it's because it's it's it's bolshevik talking points

And this is, it's not detailed here. It's heavily detailed in everything about this period and the pivot from that kind of free-for-all, like, purist, dream state, you know, socialist, communist, anarchist, propaganda push at the very beginning. And then they had to pivot to actually focus on the war. And the way to focus on the war is to be serious. and to follow military leadership, which rolled everyone under the communists. And the Catalonia and the anarchists didn't bend the knee until, like, mid-1937, which is where you get like Orwell talking about being hunted by the NKVD in Barcelona as they were cracking down on these militias that were resisting. and even the CNT leadership, the anarchist, the biggest anarchist party leadership bent the knee. Their most fervent killers in like the Derutie column were pushing for this as well.

Like get serious, stop being ideological until the war is won, and then we can settle it then. By this time in Russia, Stalin had taken care of most of the people who were talking. like this you know like who were doing the the um the um oh women's lib kind of stuff you know all this crap right here oh Stalin was just pretty much just making sure that they disappeared and um it's actually one of the things that Trotsky's son complained about the most mm-hmm because Trotsky's son had bought it into all this and it's like keep your head down dude because um you saw what happened to your dad right. was his name oh i forget leon set off yeah that's right yeah had a look at up leon set off yeah

it's like he he was he was yeah spewing that in the thirties knowing that Stalin was already like okay if you start coming up no no that's why i can just imagine what the what the what the soviet advisors were thinking when they were seeing all this oh i i mean it's probably something they'd seen a million times but it's so i mean it was it was disappearing quickly in russia i mean russia was already going on to their um their empire footing at that point so it was like they were everybody's like oh the purges and everything you know once you read suvoroff and hoffman you realize the purges were getting rid of the revolutionaries they just wanted soldiers. They wanted, like, you know, generals who weren't revolutionaries, generals who,

you know, could go into battle. And these revolutionaries who were just lining people up and killing them, well, they sort of got their just recompense in many cases. Yeah, yeah. It's wild stuff. So, yeah, with this, war became again a task only for men and women were sent back to the rear. Disobedience was treated with all martial severity, and by the middle of October, the presence of women on the front lines began to steadily decline. By December 1936, the international volunteers of the international brigades were warned that women were barred from combat and from joining the brigades.

By February 1937, women disappeared from the Republican Army. Many joined the... Let's hold up here for a second. So basically about three months into the war, Cabaretto starts to phase. We need to get women off the front line. Those first three months, the first six months, really, but the first three months, we're talking about the most brutal time. Especially if you were a Catholic, especially if you were clergy or a seminarian or a layman or something like that. So, you know, you have to, I would assume that the women had a big part.

That was a big part of, uh, a hundred percent, a hundred percent. It, it has to be because it was the most extreme, uh, militants. And when you look at those pictures of destruction of, uh, churches and statues and like, you know, where they're basically going in and killing everybody, uh, women are, female militants are very prominent in those in those images it's wild many joined many women joined the production lines in Barcelona and Valencia an event which would later cause many calls for equality in the workplace since they despite the progressiveness of the republic suffered wage discrimination as well as hostility from their male peers they also demanded permanent contracts in anticipation

of the end of the war and the return of men to the factories so that they couldn't be fired or replaced can you believe that i mean you know rosy the riveter i don't i wonder how many rosy's wanted to actually stay and keep uh keep their jobs because it was you know at the end of the war was like yeah go home and how much of that was like yeah exactly how much of it was real and how much of it was like one loud mouth yeah just making the demands and and you know women being women all going in and supporting it yeah good times so wrapping up here we got two more paragraphs note the stark difference between the women of the right and the left by By taking up critical support and administrative duties that men did not occupy, nationalist

women made the army and the liberated regions work like a well-oiled machine. Meanwhile, the women on the left, in their pursuit of personal and ideological goals, often became a hindrance which caused problems for the Republican war effort. When every person counts, those who antagonize their peers disrupt harmony and everyone's contributions to the struggle. This is clearly prevalent among leftist women, both 100 years ago and today. We know them on site, the women who don't seek to work alongside men, but instead to cast them down confident in their superiority.

You know the type, and you know they must be avoided. Like a nugget of pyrite, it is not worth a second look. So, Fool's Gold. I began the now and then series in reaction to the murder of Charlie Kirk, as I'd seen parallels to the assassination of Calvo Soelho brought up quite a few times, and I wanted to provide lesser-known details regarding the murder and its aftermath. The more I revisit Spanish primary sources regarding the Civil War, I decided to continue researching and sharing my findings with those interested. One thing is certain, despite how much time has passed, how many

well-documented mistakes were made by the left in the intervening period, and how things in our world seem to have changed, the left are still the same. With the branding of Antifa as a terrorist organization in the U.S. and the reaction to the murder of Kirk, both in the intermediate aftermath and now, immediate aftermath and now, rather, we see ardent leftists openly mock as murder, leftists who carry the same spirit found in the speeches of leftist figures of the Republic. The left of today carries the same bloodthirsty spirit seen since the beginning of the 20th century. I was nearly surprised by how the adage, quote, the more things change, the more they stay the same, unquote, still rings true. With

this in mind, I will be writing a couple more articles about the most important leftist figures of the Spanish Republic so that you can understand their motives, their drives, and most importantly their character, because to invoke another adage, you must know your enemy to defeat. him elfin it is you know i want to go back up to this part right here uh there's clearly prevalent this is clearly prevalent amongst leftist women both under years ago and today we know them on site women who don't seek to work alongside men but instead to cast me out how many times in quote unquote i mean in like the right circles even like the far right circles do these women come in all based all saying the right things but eventually

you know what happens eventually the feminism comes out eventually the leftism comes out eventually the woman comes out i mean sorry women should not be in leadership is if look at what look at Nikki Haley and all these women on the right Nancy Mace oh I mean in what world do you look at those women and go yeah I want them to lead is there a woman is there a woman you could think of that you're like yeah they should be leading men oh absolutely not like it's it's completely absurd because it's all about them and then the most important you know especially in among conservatards the most important thing is conserving like ridiculous leftist victories like nancy mace her claim to fame is that uh she was the first female allowed into vma her father was the common don and she basically like ruined that organization because it just was all about her and every picture that she puts up is a you know basically a thirst trap from someone who doesn't like instill thirst except among like

boomers who watch fox news but it's it's insane and and it's all about them and not about the mission and i mean you know when you When you understand where we are, we were talking about this. Yeah, I mentioned this before we started recording that as we were starting to record, Oren was live streaming and he was just on fire, just going, the GOP does not want to win. They were always our enemies. They would rather talk about group chats than win elections. Yep.

Why are you dealing with these people anymore? You know, they, they, they, sure, you're not going to win in New York, but at least you, in New York City, but at least have somebody who can put a message out there that would, you know, that's a counter to it instead of, I mean, Curtis Slewa. I remember seeing this guy on the subway when I was growing up. I mean, he was afraid, just grifter. They used to fake events where he'd be like, oh, look what we did. And it would just fake events that, that he would save people from.

And then Chris Cuomo. Or is it, yeah, Chris Cuomo. Yeah, I mean, just, I mean, it's a degenerate loser. And or what about Virginia? You have basically a CIA agent who's running and you put up a woman, a black woman who was born in another country, I think. I'm not really sure. But she's, I mean, she's not on the right. I mean, some of them at least fake being on the right.

She's not on the right. And then you, you, you aren't able to counter anyone for the AG in Virginia who basically says, yeah, I mean, I will shoot white, I will shoot white children. I will kill white children because that's what we do. And you, you want to be taken, but you want to talk about who Tucker Carlson has on his show and make a big deal out of that. And then you want to cancel, you know, the Heritage Foundation, which, I mean, come on, when the last, when the last boomer stopped sending the money, no one else is going to. So basically at this point, at this point, they're just looting boomers because they know they're gone as soon as the last boomer's gone. And who else? Who else?

Oh, you know, obviously the Jewish lobby, who is, I mean, just absolutely lost their minds. Absolutely. nothing they say makes any sense whatsoever they clearly say that yeah if you want to be an american you have to support israel if you don't support israel you're not an american who the fuck are you yeah and like speaking of the heritage foundation today someone you know some i don't know some uh galician lawyer type um was ranting and raving because they They leaked audio of a call where a Catholic staffer at the Heritage Foundation said basically, it's ridiculous to force, to compel us to go to these like Seder dinners, which is a religious, religious, a Jewish religious practice. Oh, yeah, it was some Jewish, some Jewish group like was laying out.

for heritage how they could weed out all the anti-Semites by setting up like a like a Shabbat dinner every week and you see who comes to it yeah yeah it doesn't come to it you get rid of them what are you what are you fucking kidding me which is just like okay so you're literally just telling us that you like we control everything or you're not allowed to exist I don't think so yeah if if they are not about if you if they're not bowing to jews then they're they're not right wing basically they're not conservative okay i mean i i would say that if you're bowing to jews you're probably the most conservative value you can have now because that's all they seem to do and have been

doing um that's why they exist and and that's that they're like these are all people who are anti-Trump and people, the vast majority of people who supported Trump in his third successful election are people who aren't Trump cultists. They're people who want the things that he promised. They want America first. They want to make America great again, etc. And these people are refusing to go along with it, and they're already gloating. They're celebrating, they're focusing on, like, basically crashing and burning that ascendant movement to steer us back to losing conservatartism, which has no appeal to anyone, like, who's going to be alive in 10 years.

like there's no appeal to that it's it's a joke uh you know other than like two percent of the population only two percent of the population wants it a very specific two percent of the population anybody who's working at one of these you know basically shavas koi organizations they have to if they don't realize that their days are just numbered because they're not gens who's who's going to support them gen z Gen X? Gen X. I mean, millennials, maybe, probably not. Gen Z is not going to do it.

They already fucked themselves. How much, think about it, they're relying upon money from the boomer generation. Which other generation has as much money as the boomer generation? None. Not even, the rest combined don't even have a fraction. They're fucked. They're fucked. They are irrelevant.

at this point and they just don't know it they're dead man walking and they don't know it they don't have anything the only thing that they could do is to embrace us is to be like okay we see where this is going i mean basically where we're going is we're going to far right and far left yes and let's bring this back home which is why we're talking about the spanish civil war ding ding the in 19 and i posted about this today in 1934 the peeric victory the peric electoral victory of 1934 by the right the right coalition under seva and some other parties uh did nothing for the the right. The Republic illegally would not permit them to form a cabinet and take charge of

the government in the fashion that was specified by the Constitution. And so with that, the younger members of this political coalition, this right-wing political coalition left in droves. for the most militant organizations, the Falunhe and the Carlist Requette's, and basically said, the only thing left to do now is to fight. That's where all the best people and the best young leaders went. They went right into the fight and began preparing seriously for a post-political world, a world outside of like the Cortez and the drama. and the machinations of the, you know,

parliamentary government. And this, in America, it's even worse because in Spain at the time, the right wing was actually like the right wing leadership and money people, you know, in these groups began to build up these groups because they realized that war was coming. that that was the only thing that was left because there was so much violence in the street in america look at like mike johnson and other dorks like that like they should have no political power the only reason mike johnson has any political power is because don't of people voting for don't trump because they want nationalism and they're saying you're not going to get nationalism

you're going to get sold down the river you're going to be unemployable you're going to owe all this money for having gone to college you should have just been a plumber while the left builds up their supporters gets them jobs gets them free money like the right basically says you have to support us for ideological reasons oh and by the way those ideological reasons are that are you know lead to you getting fucked but you got to do it because Israel. Otherwise, you're Hitler. You know, when people were, when, when Oren was talking yesterday about, um, what Fuentes was, uh, what he actually was, what he is, uh, many people who refuse to understand nuance were flipping out. You have Groyper's who are flipping out, but Groyper's don't really care about anything.

They just worship Nick Fuentes. You have people on the right who I think mean well most of the time, who like spicy things that Fuentes says about certain things and they seem as very popular, so they don't want to talk against him. But Fuentes is an entertainer. That's what he is. he's not you know he's all over the place and um he's not like like the way the way i look at it is the Tucker interview with him was a paternalistic um show of like care where Tucker brought

him on and basically said I'll let you talk but I'm going to point out things that I take issue with, but he did it in a way where he, you know that he actually cares. He doesn't want to slander him. He doesn't want to attack him or his viewers or the people who listen to him. Like most people who have a, like a completely positive view of Nick Fuentes don't know a lot of his history or they only see little clips of him. here and there and they're mostly concerned with like israel and stuff like that or they're just like fentes worshiping groipers right like that there's very little in between other people have nuanced views on him and so when oron's talking about you have to understand what he is

you know the biggest reaction i saw against that wasn't from groipers or even you know like people who have a nuanced or even distracted view of what he is it was from these you know jewish supremacists who are freaking out because they're like no you have to call him a nazi and like you know push him out and expel him from what you're doing and it's like he's what he's doing is he's intelligently explaining like what is taking place in front of us and you can't do that that's not allowed you have to be a retard you have to just like obey you have to fall on your hands and knees and obey it's really quite incredible what scares them the most is the fact that there are already so many of the young staffers and everything or agree with him oh yeah are basically groipers and um you know

What he was saying on his show yesterday was, look, start hiding, hide your power levels, get offline, you know, do what you got to do. Get in government and just, you know, subvert these people. Yeah, yeah. You know, and once they, you know, these people just do not understand that they, their days are numbered. not and not because not for any nefarious reason it's because they're an anachronism

yes yeah they just this isn't their world anymore and nobody you know most people look at the average person looks at Israel and sees what they've been doing for the last few years and they're like don't we fight a war

wasn't there like this huge war to stop stuff like this from happening. Now, yeah, I mean, I'm not really one of the big fan of, oh, you know, I'm not a fan at all of, oh, they're, they're like Nazis and everything like that, but they are with no nationalists. And they, they basically, they're like, okay, well, you know, we have this group of people here that we, you know, are beneath us and we're going to kill them. And I mean, for what other, for what reason? because they were there.

Their families were on the land there for forever. You have some kind of ethnic grievance because of what? I mean, I just don't get it. All I know is, is that I don't, they should, their days are numbered. Oh, yeah. And for no other reason. And I'm not saying, you know,

it's like because, oh, they're about to be. overthrown is because they're going to they're going to be crushed under their own weight yes it's it's all it's yeah it has nothing to do it has nothing to do with this they always say or the the most vocal retards among them will say that like anti-semitism is inherent to the european genome And it's like, what? That's totally untrue. That's completely untrue. The opposite is true.

You get too many chances and you hate us. Like, based on their behavior. Like, all they had to do, they could have milked this forever. But instead, they had to crush us in America and like attempt to dispose. us and then gloat about it and say we just got you to fight you know two decades for our purposes uh and you have to do that forever you're not allowed to say no it's that has that has nothing to do with you know our people's response to that isn't inherent it's a response to

the conditions that you're imposing upon them it's hilarious Yeah, it's, you know, when you, I was saying this, Dr. Johnson and I recorded episode 85 of 200 years together, about, you know, like three hours ago. And, you know, we were talking about how, like, the Russians were like, okay, we've been pushed off our land and now Jews have moved in. Mm-hmm. And the question is, is, where's all this anti-Semitism coming from in the 1920s? 20s and they're answering the question he's answering the question in the text and he's using he's using Jewish sources to answer the yes answer the question and it's like well how is it any different now you're giving billions and billions and billions and you're financing a war and you're

dropping bombs for it for Israel when people here can't afford a house yes I mean where people just people need help here where you have you know some people are losing their jobs because of AI you know i've talked to coders contact me all the time and they're like and i'm like i'll try i'll try you know try to help all i can and everything but everyone's like well i mean what takes them and a day to do i can do it you know in five minutes with you know with a twenty dollars what a twenty dollar a month subscription yeah so it's like and then you you you demand our loyalty yes i mean you tell us you tell us oh those who bless israel will be where the fuck are the blessings man so the claim down to you since it since

in 1948 really 1967 on call it 1973 we've been bowing down to you bending over backwards doing everything possible that you ask did America get better when did the blessings start are we just not phylo-Semitic

enough we need to be more phylo-semitic then the blessings will start the fuck we're talking about we'll be phyllosemitic until we're dead and our people are gone and Christianity is wiped off of the earth that's when we'll be philosemitic enough for them oh i can't i can't stand it though i mean and i can't stand it it's not like okay this isn't affecting me

personally you know i mean if i search maybe i can find some way that's really fucking insulting and it's it's insulting for those of us who like this country is all we have yeah we have nowhere else to go if they have somewhere else to go they have somebody they built someplace they can escape to but i mean the whole purpose of this is you know it's like you know a certain painter said and uh you know francis parker yaki said they're not going to go there no the diaspora is what's most important it's the it's the jewish billionaires in this country is what keeps them is what you know and all the lobbying to steal money from us to send to them that that's that's it that's the problem it's not the problem that israel exists

it's the the diaspora exists and of course it's not all jews but i mean let's start with the billionaires Let's start with, let's start with the, you know, like the Bill Ackman's of the world, and let's start with, and I don't know that, I don't think Josh Hammer's a billionaire, but the Josh Hammers of the world. And, you know, the Larry Ellison's of the world, this is the problem. That a Jewish woman complaining about the left becoming anti-Semitic and saying, the entire left is was created by us like every ideology and the leader of every movement and everything was Jewish and you're you don't appreciate us enough for that it's like what I you said it yeah it's like I mean you know what's that um daily forward or dearly stormer yes exactly I mean seriously are you exactly what are you trying to do here cartoonish cartoonish oh man it's so ridiculous but anyway i got to get out of here yep

i'm sure you probably do uh you probably got got stuff to do too but um and i really uh i always appreciate these episodes because i think they're uh they're probably i think people can see and listen and make the correlations it's not not going to be exactly the same obviously we're not a catholic country we're not i mean but you know open your eyes and yeah you know you'll you'll see it you'll see it tell people where they find your stuff now all right best place is a substack where this article resides carl dahl dot substack.com that's k-a-l-d-h-l-substack.com i have two books on Amazon Faction and Faction with the Crusaders by book.

And I'm also on the Hellscape known as X, the platform stupidly renamed X. Happy to be here. Thanks again, Pete. See you very soon. See you soon. Thank you. Thanks.

I don't know. I'm going to be. Thank you.