Such was, for close to a century, the exclusively leftist tale of the Spanish Civil War. Forty thousand of those helped globalize attention to the Spanish Civil War by joining the International Brigades against Franco. 14 Julius Ruiz, The ‘Red Terror’ and the Spanish Civil War: Revolutionary Violence in Madrid (Cambridge University Press, 2015), 1–15. 28 Faber, ‘Ukraine’s Foreign Fighters Have Little in Common with Those Who Signed Up to Fight in the Spanish Civil War’. 29 Faber, ‘Ukraine’s Foreign Fighters Have Little in Common with Those Who Signed Up to Fight in the Spanish Civil War’.

Source: Washington Post January 17, 2026 17:03 UTC