Franco was no good, and was also a dirty monarchist.
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Thank God his forces won though. His ascendancy was only a temporary halting of Spain’s descent into cultural obliteration. Spain’s economic “recovery” is built on typical socialist thinking. They’ve had descent real GDP growth and low inflation since the last economic crisis, but their unemployment levels are a joke compared to the U.S. They still hover around 16% overall unemployment with a staggering 35% plus unemployment rate among Spanish youth.
Culturally, they’re as decadent as it comes. According to European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), Spain has among the highest rates of drug abuse in the EU. Pornography (including the forced “human trafficking kind and child version) is also a major industry there.
The way I look at it, if a nation is too slack to worry about God and morality, it deserves to go down the toilet.
Franco was 2% better than the Republicans. But too bad for Spain that they had to live under a tool like him for so long.