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The Spanish Republic, in its attempts to persuade Britain and France to stop Italy and Germany aiding Franco, claimed to have checked the assassinations, church-burnings and revolutionary acts that had taken place. This was, of course, the aim of the Soviet Union, which wanted to persuade the Democracies that it no longer, if ever, represented a revolu-tionary threat.
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Alpert, M. (2004). Chapter 12. In: A New International History of the Spanish Civil War. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230501010_13
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