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Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD, Unión de Centro Democrático), a centre-right party led by Suárez obtained 166 seats; Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE, Partido Socialista Obrero Español), a centre-left party, obtained 118 seats. Communist Party of Spain (PCE, Partido Comunista Español), a left-wing party, obtained 20 seats.
Spain was a proving ground for German tank and aircraft tactics, the latter being only moderately successful. [190] Germany trained 56,000 Nationalist soldiers, who were technically proficient and covered infantry, tanks and anti-tank units; air and anti-aircraft forces; and those trained in naval warfare. [184]
The city is the seat of the Diputación Provincial de Toledo. The council is composed of provincial deputies to be mayors or council members. The constituencies are the six judicial districts, thus part of the city of Toledo's namesake judicial district, with 23 other municipalities. Currently, the PSOE has 14 provincial deputies, and the PP 13.
Government troops, some brought in from Spain's Army of Africa, [111] killed men, women and children and carried out summary executions after the main cities of Asturias were retaken. [ 112 ] [ 3 ] About 1,000 workers were killed, with about 250 government soldiers left dead. [ 113 ]
In that same city, the main industrial center of Spain and the city with the largest working class, proletarian internationalism had reached a remarkable echo after the arrival in 1868 of Giuseppe Fanelli, welcomed by the democratic and republican left (Fernando Garrido, who in exile had already turned to socialism —La Democracia y el ...
In Spain during almost three years, despite a civil war that took a million lives, despite the opposition of the political parties (republicans, left and right Catalan separatists, socialists, Communists, Basque and Valencian regionalists, petty bourgeoisie, etc.), this idea of libertarian communism was put into effect.
Nepal was previously ruled by the Nepal Communist Party, the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist), and the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) between 1994 and 1998 and then again between 2008 and 2018 while states formerly ruled by one or more communist parties include San Marino (1945–1957 and 1978-1990), Moldova ...
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's desire to retaliate against Franco by making heavy sanctions of Spain and provide support to democratic forces, with the intent of destroying the regime from the inside, the first order of business at the Potsdam Conference in July 1945, was not supported by Harry S. Truman and Winston Churchill. Truman and ...