“True, the generals killed some multiple of those killed by the commies. This was mostly because they won and had the leisure to slaughter their opponents without the drudgery of having to fight them.”
This is a myth which is easily spread about the Spanish Civil War because Americans were deliberately kept in the dark about it (they wouldn’t have fought in Europe in WWII if they understood what happened in Spain, and they certainly would have understood why French troops fought Americans in North Africa in 1942 if they knew what happened in Spain). If you ever have a chance to read Franco’s speech when he agreed to host American bases in Spain during the Cold War, it is very telling; the US reached out to him in the 1950s when they realized what he knew in 1936.
The best thing about the last few Popes naming these martyrs is that they can give names, dates, manner of death, etc. for each one; the commies and their useful idiots in the West have no such lists of Franco’s alledged civilian victims after the war.
Nor do we have lists of the tens of millions killed by the commies. But like Generalissimo Franco, they're still dead.