Posted on 05/12/2017 10:17:16 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Spain’s congress has voted in favor of digging up dictator Francisco Franco and removing his remains from the controversial Valley of the Fallen monument.
The non-binding resolution passed on Thursday proposes that the vast basilica, topped by a 150-meter-high granite cross, be transformed into a place of “reflection and reconciliation” rather than a monument to fascism.
The vote was passed after 198 MPs voted in favor of the motion presented by Spain’s Socialist party (PSOE), one voted against and 140 abstained. […]
The motion attempts to kick start the Historical Memory Law of 2007, which has effectively been ignored since the PP came to power in 2011. […]
The resolution, which had the support of Podemos, not only requests the removal of Franco, but calls for the transfer of José Antonio Primo to a less prominent position in the site. …
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Francisco Franco is still dead
So is Chevy Chase's career.
And Franco sure as Hell beat the alternative.
I didn’t know he was still dead!
They want to make sure Franco is dead.
Whatever else he did, Franco saved Spain from the Communists.
Leftists never forget, never forgive. He beat them in the 30s so. now they must get their posthumous revenge.
Is Spain still a country? Does anyone really give a rip?
Supporting one form of socialism over another is not saving anyone from socialism.
I hear there is some open real estate in Lee Circle if they want to move him to NOLA.
>Supporting one form of socialism over another is not saving anyone from socialism.
Franco embraced capitalism later on.
Chevy Chase will be upset. Not! He’s a flaming liberal and has no idea who fought against whom in the Spanish Civil War.
Interestingly, Franco saved a number of French Jews fleeing Nazi occupation. I’ll bet you didn’t hear this on CNN or MSNBC or NBC, CBS, or ABC.
Franco was a very complex man, a very hard fighter and a dictator like many other European leaders (Hitler, Mussolini, Salazar, Horthy, Stetskos, etc. History will eventually judge him properly if written by honest historians without an ideological ax to grind.
Pervert leftists thirsty for their share of blood in one way or another?
Either you don't know much about Spanish history or you're just a Red diaper baby.
Appeasing the commies won’t reconcile a thing.
These are the same socialists who raped and killed Catholic nuns and priests during the Spanish Civil War. And the only public exhibition is that dopey 3rd grade art, Guernica by Marxist Picasso.
Gee, Mr. Wilson!
Whadda they gonna do with all those dead Nazis that fought in Spain?
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