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-political nepotism (public services only hired party members and increase their wages)
-Illegal tolls (many towns had armed men asking travellers for money)
-Destruction of religious imagery and works of art
-Destruction and/or occupation of churches and convents
-Murder of priests and nuns
-Desecration of graves and unearthing of corpses (dug up bodies of priests and nuns to shame members of the clergy)
-Land expropiation (the government expropiated a lot of farmland and handed it over to farmers. The land was too small for them to even live off the land and they left most of it untended)
-Exponential increase in wages (government increased farmhand wages by 5, meaning that landowners couldn't afford to pay them or even break even selling their produce. As a result, farmers had to ask relatives for help with work which led to violence against certain families)
-The two previous things also caused a famine.
-Targeted violence against known right wing people
-Targeted destruction and censorship of right wing papers and publications (more than 30 newspaper agencies were destroyed in roughly 6 months)
-Targeted arrests of right wing people involved in violent acts even when they were defending themselves
-Targeted expropiation and eviction of people not aligned with the interests of the parties in charge
-Intimidation against voters (armed socialists/communists at polling stations)
-Unlimited right to strike without cause or reason (this also lead to an strike against paying rent, but grinded industrial production to a halt)
-Voter fraud (in the 36 election there were at least 3 regions in Spain where the votes were manipulated)
-Violence and assault against law enforcers not fully aligned with the interests of the goverment (mainly the Guardia Civil)
-General political corruption.
-Deposition of political charges not aligned with the socialists/Communists (mainly in the south, they kicked at least 8 mayors and a lot of public officials)
-Left wing politican figures making open death threats against their political opponents in parliament (yes, this happened at least 3 times)
-And last but not least, politically motivated murder at the hands of law enforcers (the murder of Calvo Sotelo)
And all this just from the top of my head. And important to know this happened in roughly 6 months