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There never was a Catalonia with a Generalitat until the 20th century. It was part of the Crown of Aragon, and nowadys the aragonese region is perfectly ok with the rest of Spain. 1714 war was not a war against Catolonia, it was a civil war with Castile against Aragon. Stop telling half-trues, you are just supporting a group of corrupt politicians which will ruin Catalonia's economy while they save your black money in Andorra for themselves.

Free Catalonia.

FREE MURCIA! We were also a Kingdom that reach to Valencia with the Wolf King, we deserve also the independence!! Ah no...Murcia is poor...And Catalonia is rich...

visca catalunya!

Just an explanatory note, Catalonia did pick the "loosing side" of the civil war, but it'd be nice to inform viewers that the "loosing side" was the one that defended the Republican legal legitimacy. The "winning side" was started by a coup of fascist army men. And also, it'd be more accurate to hear "the victor and FASCIST dictator F. Franco"...

FREE THE CATALONIA FROM PHILIPPINES. BUT BARCELONA :( NAH WE STILL HAVE MADRID.

Sorry to inform you but that will never happen

300 years? That's not true. Spain wasn't born then. The first Spanish modern state came in 1812. And the first big kingdom union a la UK, came in 1492.
And Catalonia didn't choose the "losing side" in the Civil War. As a region full of industrial burgeoise, there were A LOT of franchoists there, as in the rest of Spain. The ones who lost were the low-middle and working classes, in Catalonia, in Castille, in Asturias or Andalusia: EVERYWHERE IN SPAIN. But you know, this bourgeoise still rule Catalonia, so it's better to say that Spain as a country was the fascist enemy, than to say Catalan bourgoise was part of the fascist criminals.

cough cough Anarchist Catalonia.

Most of the Catalans are not independentistas but we are afraid to show Spanish flags. There is no democracy in Catalonia if you are not a nationalist.

SARAJEVO AND BARCELONA FOREVER! Free B&H and Free Catalonia! GO HOME SPAIN!

Video "short" en todos los sentidos. ¿¿¿por qué no se menciona a los catalanes contrarios a la independencia y que no participan en esas demostraciones????  PUES SON LA MAYORÍA. Si se celebra el simulacro del 1 Octubre no irá a votar nadie mas que los independentistas. En el simulacro de 2014 solo participaron 1.850.000 de los más de 6.000.000 potenciales votantes, o sea, ni un tercio del total. Eso sí, todos los partidarios de la independencia fueron a votar.

Catalonia is spain! Thake that for sure!

Catalonians radical politicians are big thiefs like Puyol! For the rest telling lies about Spain. Disgusting!

Did Catalonia picked the loosing side in the civil war? That is so misunderstood. Learn about Spanish history before you make a video like this.

I am an ethnic Tatar from republic of Tatarstan in Russian Federation. I fully support independence for Catalonia! I also wish my Tatarstan to become independent from Russian, we have referendum of 1992 when majority of republic (61,4%) voted for independence but Russians did not let us go! Freedom for Catalonia! Freedom to Tatarstan!

"Soccer" team :-p
Good ol' America.

The world needs to know how tired catalans are. Chech how 2M catalans demostrate

Despite to seduce us for don't wish to leave, the answer is send more and more police. I never felt part of Spain because in general I never saw good opinion about us, and we are accused to do or to be thinks that are fake and are created by politics to use it for get more votes, incomprehensibly it works. Who would like to live in one country that never told you thanks and never valued you, just attack attack attack. As we can see now, shame of them, we won't have fear, and is worse for both, they are producing more people agree to Catalonia independence. Franco isn't back, because he never left, still been alive in mostly hearts. Bay bay Españistan!

Debemos de estar unidos y ayudarnos unos a otros es muy egoísta querer separarse del resto de España. Barcelona siempre ha estado en el mapa de España incluida. Porque ahora se quiere separar, porque se creen superiores a los demás, que pena. Mucha corrupción en Barcelona insolentes y arrogantes.

This is not a very well documented video. Well explained but not well researched and missing a lot of important history dated back at least 400 years more. Catalonia existed before Spain. Spain was created with the married of the king of Catalonia and Aragon and the queen of Castilla in the c. XV ad

"The problem is that Spain's Government opposes the vote", says the NBC. This is false. The vote is illegal because the Spanish Constitution states the integrity of the territory, so it's not the government opposing anything, but the democratic law. By the way almost all Constitutions in the world include the integrity of the territory, including the US, Germany France and so on. The Constitution can be changed follow democratic procedure in the Palament, which is where democracy resides, but Catalans separatists chose to break the law instead.

Rural California is with you Catalonia! Si!

Go Catalonia!!! Kick your EU overlords where it counts! Good luck and best wishes from Texas (and hopefully some of us can send ammo if it's needed). Viva Independencia!!!

people themselves must choose how they live

Independence for my room.

Free Catalonia

Ahh my ancestors want independance💩.....will all this spark world wide independence woth other countries that want the same...kurdistan doing the same....

Good resume, although it is missing a lot of information and mixing concepts. It wasn’t the government who declared it illegal, it is illegal because of the constitution. For me it is something that needs much more than 2 minutes to be explained, it is a really complex issue, not easy to compare with Quebec or Scotland either, because of historical reasons.

after 300 years? Catalonians pick the wrong side? They voted in 1978 with a 90% supporting the constitution, they also voted in 2015 in their local elections presenting it as a referendum and they reached 47% for independence (after a campaign based on hate, xenophobia and lies)!

Please journalists, do your homework. How many times are they going to vote?

Catalonia has NEVER been an independent country, NEVER!
As much, it was a small county within the kingdom of Aragon before 1492. All the principles of the nacionalism credo are just lies and an INVENTED HISTORY. Most of catalan people want to be spanish. The propaganda has brain-washed many of the youngsters in this spanish region. That is why they are so interested in ruling the education and mass media. The are NAZIS using new kind of linguistic neo-nazism propaganda that will be for sure studied in future doctorate programs in political science, as something amazing that happened in the european XXI century. They use victimism and lies as weapons. Every word said by a catalan nacionalist is just a lie.

Support for Catalans!

Don't let Spain continue to steal your taxes to fund other regions who hate you!

Even then, I don't see where the problem lies? Spain is not torturing catalonia. isn't it?

VISCA CATALUNYAAA!

Tajani and Juncker have sold European principles for Asturias prize. Catalonia is not Spain.

My last name is Catalan

What about the Catalans that don’t want independence?

I hate spain its boring and selfish to catalonia why they cant give him(catalonia) indipendince chinese is the best and popular

Freedom for us! Freedom for us!
We've got to be really free Catalans\Valencians!
Freedom is what we need!
Freedom is what we want!
Our Independence, a must! ...
(Catalan Patriotic Song by FIRSTKAPOKMAN)

Free the political prisoners! 🎗🎗🎗

The Mexican Americans have more claim for independence on the whole western part of the United States than the Catalans will ever have in Spain. If you would argue that cultural, ethnic and historic dwelling governs the right for independence, then the Mexican Americans have a much stronger claim for claiming the entire western United States as an independent country from the United States of America, the United States of Mexico and the Kingdom of Spain, for that "historic" matter! So, if you think Catalonia deserves independence, then just give all the western United States to "La Raza" Chicano Power - Mexican American, and recognize it as the Aztlan Nation.

The Catalan argument fomenting this independence movement is based on corrupt politicians wanting to break the law in hopes of keeping fraudulently obtained funds.

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Thumbs down for not having any analysis on the reasons ... do they really give more than they take?

Lot of unpatriotic Scots who based their vote on bigotry and the wealthy oh and royalists but you just call most of them rangers fans 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Alba gu Brath

Cataluña es españa

Israel recognises Catalunya! ❤