71st Division (Spain)
The 71st Division was one of the Division (military), divisions of the People's Army of the Republic that were organized during the Spanish Civil War on the basis of the Mixed Brigades. It came to operate on the Andalusian and Extremadura fronts. History The unit was created in September 1937, on the Andalusian coastline. Its headquarters were in Albuñol. Some time after its creation the division was integrated into the XXIII Army Corps (Spain), XXIII Army Corps. Later it became a reserve of the Andalusian Army. In May 1938 members of the division led the liberation of more than three hundred republican prisoners from Carchuna, in the nationalist rear. In mid-August 1938 the Republican command sent it as reinforcement to the Extremadura front, to the sector defended by the 29th Division (Spain), 29th Division. Command ;Commanders * Bartolomé Muntané Cirici; * Luis Bárzana Bárzana; * José Torralba Ordóñez; * Carlos Cuerda Gutiérrez; ;Commissars * José Piñeiro Zambra ...
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Republican Faction (Spanish Civil War)
The Republican faction ( es, Bando republicano), also known as the Loyalist faction () or the Government faction (), was the side in the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939 that supported the government of the Second Spanish Republic against the Nationalist faction of the military rebellion. The name Republicans () was mainly used by its members and supporters, while its opponents used the term ''Rojos'' (Reds) to refer to this faction due to its left-leaning ideology, including far-left communist and anarchist groups, and the support it received from the Soviet Union. At the beginning of the war, the Republicans outnumbered the Nationalists by ten-to-one, but by January 1937 that advantage had dropped to four-to-one. Foreign support The Republican faction hardly received external support from the Allied powers of World War II, due to the International Non-Intervention Committee. The support of the USSR stands out, fundamentally. Together with Mexico, France and Poland at the be ...
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