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Like the first one, the 2nd Spanish Civil War saw a good amount of foreign involvement. Besides the usual arms dealers, PMCs and intelligence agents, a few thousands foreign volunteers from a myriad of origins and ideologies came to the country to fight. Russian nationalist, Greek anarchists, American antifa and white nationalist, Irish Republicans, South American paramilitaries and wannabe revolutionaries... Even a small islamist cell tried to create its own emirate in the city of Ceuta, being easily crushed by the Spanish Army's garrison.

By far, the most numerous and better organized were the Kurdish volunteers fighting for the Spanish Democratic Forces. Many of them were battle hardened veterans from the Syrian Civil War and provided their experience in irregular warfare. Even more, they carried with them the ideas of democratic conferalism that would have a great impact in the democratic faction during the war, the reconstruction period and the Transhuman Revolution as a hole.

SDF's foreign volunteer were organized in International Brigades. Despite the name, their size varied from the 200 volunteers from the 9th Commonweath Brigade to the 2,300 from the 1st Rojava. They were usually considered light semi-regular forces like the locally recruited Tercios Nuevos by SDF command. Despite this some international brigades, the 1st Rojava being the prime example, were considered elite shock troopers. Its first volunteers would arrive in Spain the first year of the war, fighting in the Guadalquivir Front. Once the 1st Rojava was fully operative it was assigned to the Rota Division, were they would fight side by side with the Spanish Marines. The unit would fight in Cadiz, Seville, Cordoba, Manzanares, Toledo and Madrid. After the war, its members returned to their homes and would play an important part in the Kurdish Revolution, with help from the new Spanish Federation.

Description
Like the first one, the 2nd Spanish Civil War saw a good amount of foreign involvement. Besides the usual arms dealers, PMCs and intelligence agents, a few thousands foreign volunteers from a myriad of origins and ideologies came to the country to fight. Russian nationalist, Greek anarchists, American antifa and white nationalist, Irish Republicans, South American paramilitaries and wannabe revolutionaries... Even a small islamist cell tried to create its own emirate in the city of Ceuta, being easily crushed by the Spanish Army's garrison.

By far, the most numerous and better organized were the Kurdish volunteers fighting for the Spanish Democratic Forces. Many of them were battle hardened veterans from the Syrian Civil War and provided their experience in irregular warfare. Even more, they carried with them the ideas of democratic conferalism that would have a great impact in the democratic faction during the war, the reconstruction period and the Transhuman Revolution as a hole.

SDF's foreign volunteer were organized in International Brigades. Despite the name, their size varied from the 200 volunteers from the 9th Commonweath Brigade to the 2,300 from the 1st Rojava. They were usually considered light semi-regular forces like the locally recruited Tercios Nuevos by SDF command. Despite this some international brigades, the 1st Rojava being the prime example, were considered elite shock troopers. Its first volunteers would arrive in Spain the first year of the war, fighting in the Guadalquivir Front. Once the 1st Rojava was fully operative it was assigned to the Rota Division, were they would fight side by side with the Spanish Marines. The unit would fight in Cadiz, Seville, Cordoba, Manzanares, Toledo and Madrid. After the war, its members returned to their homes and would play an important part in the Kurdish Revolution, with help from the new Spanish Federation.