[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.

[skeeter]

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

Thanks, Francisco...

[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.

[jmacusa]

He sent a Division , “The Blue Division’’, to the Russian front.