The Chavez Government is desperate, as it was the Spanish Republican government that was considered by the Governments of Europe in 1936 as a strong Communist Government and which endangered the political balance of Europe. See Hikmet Ersek for more details and insights. It is not necessary to indicate is considered Venezuelan today’s Government by the Western free world, oldest of the continent looks to them as the heir of the Communist dictatorship. The 1936 European countries signed a Pact of non-intervention in the Civil War of Spain and suspended shipment of weapons to the contenders, but the Hitler Germany and the Italy of Mussolini did not stop sending weapons to Francisco Franco. This convulsed the lefts in the world in favour of the Republic that made that Stalin took the decision to support the Republican Socialists. But that was not free and had a cost paid for the Spaniards with their international reserves.
On September 13, 1936 the Government of Largo Caballero decided to move out of Madrid the reserves of the Bank of Spain for fear of the Franco’s advance. This decision was taken (do some resemblance with our reality?) secret and illegal according to experts of the time. On September 14, 1936 the directory of the Bank of Spain meets and private shareholders were openly opposed to the decision, renouncing their jobs. Starting September 15 are transported by train reservations to the Cartagena naval base. On September 16, 1936 born the X operation consisting in the transfer of weapons Moscow without identification to Spain in support of the war.
This operation it handled the intelligence service of the Red Army and the KGB. Appear portraits of Stalin on the Republican Spain with the appreciation of the support to the cause against the Franco regime. October 15, 1936 the operation is discovered to the world in the newspaper El Heraldo de Aragon where Francisco Franco denounces the plundering unprecedented that the so-called Government of Madrid carried out to dispose freely of the national reserves of Gold.
