We call international brigades to units of militaries formed by foreign volunteers, which fight in the Spanish civil war in favor of the republic, against Francisco Franco (the dictator of Spain). The International brigades participated from 1936 until the end of the civil war and later they went to France to fight in the Second World War. The Republican Party was formed by: Communists, Socialist, Anarchists and it was also supported by the Soviet Union and Mexico. Franco’s nationalist party that sustained the idea of the Monarchy, Falange and Catholicism and was supported by the Portuguese republic, kingdom of Italy and Nazi Germany.
The majority of the states didn’t wanted to participate in the civil war, the main propagator of this idea was the United Kingdom and later France. Companies (mainly from America) that traded with fuels didn’t sold their fuel to the Republican Party. Even so the majority of the foreign volunteers participated with the Second Spanish Republic. The participation of Italians/Germans on favor of the Francis was not voluntary. Soldiers simply had to get commands because Franco was supported by the government officially.
Some of the more famous foreign international temporary workers were Ernst Hemingway and George Orwell.
On the 26 of July in 1938 were fighting 31.369 foreign volunteers antifascist. It is very difficult to say the exact number of Czechoslovak that participated in the Civil War, but we know that were 2.168 Czechoslovak volunteers (almost 800 of them came from USA, Canada and France). The reason why Czechoslovak come to Spain was t\by the influence of the communism and masons. The Soviet Union didn’t have that huge influence until the Second World War but there was one political party very strong of communist called Komunistická strana Československa (KSČ).
