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Behind the Insurrections - The Birth of Spanish Fascism, Part 1

Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

The Spanish Foreign Legion Is Not a Poiny Mother Fucker.

The spanish foreign legion was founded in 19 19 in mimicry of the french foreign legion, since spain was also mimicking french ambition in north africa at this point. The founder of the legion was a guy named milan astray, a veteran of spain's brutal war in the philippines and of the fighting in morocco. He wanted to create a colonial army for spain that they could use to regain some of their lost glory. These are hewantin is ja troops, and very yong in and fine as hel a, just senm in a picture.

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