Testament of Francisco Franco

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[annalex]

38 years ago today. Perhaps the only leader of 20th century Europe that steered his country well.

[annalex]

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[Castlebar]

Franco was not a saint.

But he was fighting evil incarnate in a war that was forced on him when the monsters in the Azana government began the actual murder of the leaders of the opposition.

[Fast Moving Angel]

And he's still dead.

/Saturday Night Live

[dfwgator]

Screw Chevy Chase...Viva Franco!

[JoeDetweiler]

I did not appreciate Franco until I read a bit about the history of Spain in the hundred or so years before he came to power....nothing but revolution....revolution....revolution. And then....stability.

[yarddog]

I have always sort of liked Franco. I know he played around with the Axis powers but it was a war between them and the Communists, and the Communists were the worse ones.

He did one thing which should enshrine his memory and that is he kept Spain out of WWII. When you are fighting Communists, you simply can’t play nice with them.

[dfwgator]

He also provided 200,000 Jews with safe haven during the war.

[annalex]

Also see

Francisco Franco, grandfather, painter

[annalex]

not a saint

That is not for us to know. Many soldiers became saints.

[skeeter]

He rid us of about 800 of our own home grown commies, too.

Thanks, Francisco...

[annalex]

Officers of Russian All-Military Union in Spain, Kornilovzi (left to right):
V. Gurko, V. Boyarunas, M.Salnikov, A. Yeremchuk II. Tercio Donna Maria de Molina

[annalex]

Yay!

[annalex]

We have a pavlovian instinct in us against “dictators”. We should get ourselves deprogrammed.

[Fiji Hill]

He was also pro-US. After the war, he provided bases in Spain for our B-47 bombers. Franco made us fly the Spanish flag over our bases.

[annalex]

...and he would have kept Spain out of EU, too, if he lived longer.

[yarddog]

Just about any tale or movie or TV series set in the 30s has some friend, relative, or the hero himself, go to Spain and join the glorious Abraham Lincoln Brigade.

I have seen it so many times that it must be a necessary act for old communist writers.

Oh, I forgot about Arlo Guthrie and his “machine that kills Fascists”.

My Father was with some of the early troops sent into Berlin after the Russians captured it. He said the first couple of weeks the Russians would always greet them with “Death to Fascists”.

The American troops were for the most part not very political and he said they would sort of stare blankly at the Russians. He said they eventually quit saying it.

[Fiji Hill]

Here's a song from the other side--from the Thaelmann Battalion, a unit in the International Brigades named for Communist Party of Germany chairman Ernst Thaelmann, who at the time was imprisoned in Buchenwald, where he would later be murdered.

Die Thaelmannkolonne (The Thaelmann Battalion)--Ernst Busch (1938)

[dfwgator]

Oh, I forgot about Arlo Guthrie and his “machine that kills Fascists”.

His Dad, Woody.

[skeeter]

When I read anything about the ALB or Americans involved with the republicans during that war I'm reminded of how much things haven't changed.

For example, the American commander, Robert Merriman, was a UC Berkeley professor.

The only difference I can discern between leftists of then and now is that back then they had balls. Now they're a bunch sniping b*tches.