Re:CBG (Score 1)

"So yes, I give the UK a lot of respect for standing alone against the Nazi War Machine during that period."

Indeed, they do deserve that credit.

But what about, you know, the little ones the Nazis did their war beta-testing with? I quote Wikipedia on the Spanish Civil War:
"[...] became in some cases a world war by proxy, with Germany in particular using the war as a rehearsal for many of the blitzkrieg tactics it later used in the war in Europe."

Just a sample where 22 tons of bombing "tests" were performed:
"The bombing of Guernica was an aerial attack on April 26, 1937, during the Spanish Civil War by planes of the German Luftwaffe "Condor Legion" and subordinate Italian Fascists from the Corpo Truppe Volontarie expeditionary force organized as Aviazione Legionaria. The raid was called Operation Rügen and resulted in widespread destruction and civilian deaths in the Republican held town of Guernica in the Basque Country."

Oh, and later on, no one did come to liberate us or anything. We should be getting some kudos as well, we did live 36 years of dictatorship under the Nazi beta-tester friends. The dictator was actually alive and the dictatorship in place when I was born.

Actually, as an extra bit of trivia, it was an MI6 officer who flew the soon-to-be dictator to Morocco to run the war:
" A British MI6 intelligence agent, Major Hugh Pollard, then flew Franco to Spanish Morocco [...]"

I do think we deserve kudos as well and we didn't get the USA nor Britain nor France to help...