Españoles, Franco ha muerto
| >in response millions of your own people flee the country and go find work in France and Germany as immigrants
>force everyone to be super religious because "muh traditions"
>die
>immediately everyone just abandons the church and installs democracy as soon as the Francoist social order isn't being enforced through violence
>decades later, morons on the internet defend it with platitudes and buzzwords like "he saved spain from muh gommunism!"
| also we can add in a few classics like giving hitler a registry of jews living in spain to prepare for the holocaust, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Archive_(Francoist_Spain)) hosting the OAS terrorist group, executing french resistants, hosting unrepentant nazis like Degrelle and Pavelic, etc.
| One of the weirder aspects of the spanish civil war is that morrocan muslim troops were used by the "nationalists" to terrorise and rape european spanish civilians, a fact which was hidden by the Franco regime.
There was an incident in spanish-controlled Morocco where a Spanish officer was detained in the airport and expelled out of the country while his soon-to-be wife was basically kidnapped and never seen again by him.
| The reason was that Muhammad bin Mizzian, the woman's father was adamant that her daughter was not going marry that officer since that would require conversion from Muslim to Catholicism.
Mizzian got away scot-free despite the outrage of many in Franco's regime because he and Franco were best buddies since their years serving in the colonial army. He also served as a commander of the Moroccan troops in the Civil War.
| Yep autocrats love rapists. Disgusting!! I am disgusted by Franco and Catholics
| Hispanic culture is uniquely suited towards fascism, OP. Read up on colonial and post-colonial (before the US started meddling in it ~1850s, history gets muddy at that point) South America.
Franco was merely a symptom of a disease that the mainland Spanish had to learn to be immune to the hard way.
| >>1075097
Conditions of settler-colonialism, where the settlers applied political structures developed during the reconquista wholesale?
I would be happy to hear what you intend.
| from John Lynch: "El caudillismo fue un producto de las guerras de independencia, cuando el estado colonial fue desmantelado, sus instituciones destruídas, y en momentos en que diferentes grupos sociales competían por llenar el vacío."
We're talking about a very specific latin american context here, not mainland spain, which was absolutely not a "settler colonialist" society.
| Still might makes right lying Latin Catholics though. Same behavior in Italians and some French
| >>76852e yeah the catholic right wing in the 19th and 20th century were absolute monsters. After WW2 and Vatican 2 a lot of them calmed down, nowadays the evangelicals are a lot worse.
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| Franco be like:
>starts a war to "save spain from muh gommunism" (actually just center-left welfarism)
>proceeds to ally himself with the people who would go on perpetrate the holocaust
>win and destroy the country in the process
>mass famine
>proceeds to implement moronic autarkist nazi-inspired economic policies that hold the country back economically, keeping Spain stuck as a backwards agrarian economy, while the rest of Europe has its postwar economic boom.