[Czech_Occidentalist]

Franco himself wasn’t a Fascist. He was a Catholic traditionalist. The Fascists were revolutionaries. Franco’s government, however, was partially Fascist from 1936 to 1944 because some of the ministers belonged to the Falange, which was a Fascist group. Franco had Falangist ministers because during the Civil War he needed Italian and German support and later - during WWII - he didn’t want Spain to be attacked by the Germans. After 1944 the Falange lost all influence and was only kept for ceremonial purposes.

I recommend reading some books by Stanley Payne, a non-leftist historian who wrote extensively on Spain and Fascism.

[Publius]

There is a historical irony here. Franco bought Spain 36 years of peace as the tensions of the Spanish Civil War abated due to the deaths of the participants. It took that long for Spaniards of one stripe to live among Spaniards of the other stripe.

But as soon as Franco died, Spain picked up where it left off in 1936 in terms of social change. It's leading the way in Europe for sexual perversions of different kinds.

[jmacusa]

Sorry, excuse him all you want. The man attacked the church as well as anyone else he didn't like.

He was a fascist thug and no one on this earth is going to convince me other wise.