Spain

Spain

Spain couldn't recover itself after the end of the Great War, as the country's economy depended mostly of selling weapons to both sides. Not only that, but since 1917, the communists started getting dangerous, forming a new party different from PSOE. In 1925, an armed group of communists assaulted the car of the dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera and killed him, starting a persecution of communist activities. The Great Depression and the military fails against Arab nationalists only helped digging the grave of the House of Bourbon, and in 1931 the king Alfonso XIII had to leave the country after the proclamation of a republic. The communist leaders in exile started returning, and in the first elections of the new democratic government the PSOE got the power. Now, the social democrats have to lead with both the agitation of communist revolutionaries and the formation of far right monarchic groups. While the PCE defends the formation of a people's union of republics, the FE-JONS claims national unity supported by a king and a strong military. President Juan Negrín rapidly thinks of a solution to the instability of the democratic government, but can he find it before the clashes between communists and nationalists escalate to a civil war?