Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Asturias ya taka muhimmiyar rawa a cikin abubuwan da suka haifar da yakin basasar Spain. A watan Oktoba na 1934 Asturian masu hakar ma'adinai da sauran ma'aikata sun yi tawaye da makamai (duba juyin juya halin Asturias
) don adawa da zuwan ikon jam'iyyar CEDA na dama, wanda ya sami mukamai uku na ministoci a cikin gwamnatin tsakiya na Jamhuriyar Mutanen Espanya ta biyu. Tsawon wata guda, Kwamitin Popular Front ya yi iko a kudancin Asturias, yayin da kwamitocin ma'aikata na gida suka tashi a wasu wurare a yankin. Kwamitin yaki wanda magoya bayan anarcho-syndicalist suka mamaye ya dauki iko a Oviedo. Sojoji a karkashin jagorancin wani janar da ba a san shi ba a lokacin da ake kira Francisco Franco Bahamonde an kawo su daga Morocco ta Spain don murkushe tawayen. Franco ya yi amfani da dabarun da aka saba amfani da su ga yankuna na kasashen waje, ta amfani da sojojin Legion na Spain da sojojin Morocco: zalunci mai tsanani ya biyo baya.