... Spain came to represent the fight against fascism. Thousands volunteered from around the world to join the International Brigades and to defend the Second Republic, including famous writers such as George Orwell. Picasso produced his famed Guernica painting to highlight the horrific bombing by Franco and his Nazi sponsors of the infamous town(Spanish). The chaotic instability of the nation was ... Spain had the world's fourth largest reserves of gold. During the war approximately $500 million, or two-thirds of Spain's gold reserves, were shipped to the Soviet Union. This flagrant abuse ...

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