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Loyalists
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The Republican faction, also known as the Loyalist faction or the Government faction, was the side in the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939 that supported the government of the Second Spanish Republic against the Nationalist faction of the military rebellion. The name Republicans was mainly used by its members and supporters, while its opponents used the term Rojos (Reds) to refer to this faction due to the significant presence of far-left movements in the faction including communist and anarchist movements, and because of the support it received from the Soviet Union, but there were liberals, centrists and some moderate conservatives among those who belonged to the Republican faction. At the beginning of the war, the Republicans outnumbered the Nationalists by ten-to-one, but by January 1937 that advantage had dropped to four-to-one.