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15 октября 2013 г., 15:02
...Franco was very fortunate in militarily engaging the Red Army not to have provoked a formal Soviet declaration of war against Spain, which would have left Britain and the United Statesafter she entered the Second World War in December 1941 little choice but to follow suit. However, Serrano Suñer calculated that the Franco regime, in sending this Spanish unit to fight on the Russian front, had done enough to curry favour with the Third Reich without sorely provoking the Allies, as he explained many years later: *Really with the Blue Division we wanted to go a little way towards fulfilling our obligation to Germany without provoking the Allies. *
