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Another notable fact of the war was the Bombing of Guernica, being the first widely known example of the carpet bombing of a civilian target (and the inspiration for [[Pablo Picasso]]'s heart-wrenching and monumental mural ''Guernica'').
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* [[Black and Grey Morality]]: Fascists, Autocratic Monarchists, and the religious versus Communists, Socialists, Anarchists, and Liberals.
* [[Blind Mistake]]: A ceasefire occurred at least twice a day during the siege of the Alcázar due to a blind beggar who regularly traversed a road between the battle lines.
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* [[Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters]]: More like your ''criminals'' are our freedom fighters - the Nationalist government prohibited the country's media from reporting on the actions of Republican [[La Résistance|Maquis]] as anything other than isolated bandit attacks or crime sprees; one of the reasons the Maquis finally lost was that their political motivations - and, in some cases, their very existence - were usually completely unknown outside of the immediate area they operated in.
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* In the final two episodes of ''[[When the Boat Comes In]]'', Jack Ford takes a yacht to run rifles to the Republican forces. {{spoiler|It doesn't end well. Jack's ultimately mortally wounded in a shootout.}}
* ''[[For Whom the Bell Tolls]]'', by [[Ernest Hemingway]]. The main character is an American journalist who originally came to simply cover the war for a newspaper back home, but has, by the time the story begins, joined one side and become a respected demolition expert.
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* In general, there are quite a few Spanish movies set on the Civil War, mostly human dramas and the like, but you can find most genres, even ''comedy''. As a result, [[Memetic Mutation]] arose claiming every Spanish film is set on the Spanish Civil War.
* ''[[Homage to Catalonia]],'' [[George Orwell]]'s classic memoir of his volunteer service in the International Brigades on the Republican side. Moreover, Orwell's experience of the bloody opposition between the POUM militia he served in and the Stalinists of the Communist Party probably gave birth to his criticism of the USSR later expressed in ''[[Animal Farm]]''.
* [[The Clash]] song ''[[wikipedia:Spanish Bombs|Spanish Bombs]]'' celebrates the Republicans who fought in the conflict.
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