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{{see also|International Brigades}}
Many commentators have compared the International Legion to the [[International Brigades]] of the [[Spanish Civil War]],<ref>{{cite news |last1=O'Connor |first1=Emmet |title=International Brigades for Ukraine? The lessons from Spain |url=https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2022/0311/1285743-ukraine-international-brigades-spanish-civil-war/ |access-date=13 March 2022 |publisher=RTE |date=11 March 2022 |archive-date=13 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220313210220/https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2022/0311/1285743-ukraine-international-brigades-spanish-civil-war/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Harding |first1=Luke |title='My plan is there is no plan': the foreign fighters flocking to Ukraine |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/11/ukraine-russia-war-foreign-fighters-volunteers |access-date=13 March 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=11 March 2022 |archive-date=13 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220313030150/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/11/ukraine-russia-war-foreign-fighters-volunteers |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Fink |first1=Naureen |title=Opinion: Foreign Fighters Are Heading to Ukraine. That's A Moment for Worry |url=https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/03/10/foreign-fighters-are-heading-to-ukraine-thats-a-moment-for-worry-00016084 |access-date=13 March 2022 |publisher=Politico |date=10 March 2022 |archive-date=13 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220313210959/https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/03/10/foreign-fighters-are-heading-to-ukraine-thats-a-moment-for-worry-00016084 |url-status=live }}</ref> which comprised foreign volunteers who supported the [[Second Spanish Republic]] against the [[Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War)|Nationalist faction]] led by
Other commentators have criticized this comparison. Sebastiaan Faber of [[Oberlin College]] argued that depicting the Legion as part of a war between fascism and anti-fascism risks playing "into the Kremlin's narrative, which seeks to portray the "special military operation" as an effort to "[[Denazification|denazify]]" its western neighbor." Critics have also highlighted differences in the makeup of the two international units: Volunteers to Spain generally lacked military experience, while those to Ukraine tend to have prior military experience.<ref name="Conversation-17March2022">{{cite news |last1=Faber |first1=Sebastiaan |date=17 March 2022 |title=Ukraine's foreign fighters have little in common with those who signed up to fight in the Spanish Civil War |publisher=The Conversation |url=https://theconversation.com/ukraines-foreign-fighters-have-little-in-common-with-those-who-signed-up-to-fight-in-the-spanish-civil-war-178976 |url-status=live |access-date=17 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220317122421/https://theconversation.com/ukraines-foreign-fighters-have-little-in-common-with-those-who-signed-up-to-fight-in-the-spanish-civil-war-178976 |archive-date=17 March 2022}}</ref> Moreover, the Brigades were organised by the [[Communist International]], and thus composed mostly of communists with backgrounds in
===Comparison to Winter War===
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