[CondoleezzaProtege]

Not good person.

However the monarchy was saved and communism was defeated. So was he lesser of the evils?

[BenLurkin]

As is John McCain

[JonPreston]

I see that communist ghouls are back to grave digging when it comes to virulent anti-communists. America could use the helicopter rides the great Gen. Francisco Franco perfected.

PS: for a historical perspective, look at some of the pictures available on a Google search of the Spanish communists digging up graves of Catholic nuns and priests. This is history repeating itself.

[Leaning Right]

> Franco was a brutal dictator who started a civil war to overthrow the democratically elected government of Spain in 1939 <

Huh? The Spanish civil war started in 1936, not 1939. I’ve got a feeling the author’s goal here is to badmouth Franco. The historical facts are secondary.

[zeestephen]

The “still dead” joke needs a better explanation.

Franco lingered on his death bed for like an entire year, and Spain was constantly reporting that “Franco is still alive.”

[SES1066]

So that we can see what is being discussed ...

The Royal Monastery of El Escorial & Valley of the Fallen.

As for this write-up, one sided and with errors. The Spanish Civil War ran from 1936 to 1939 with Franco leading the Falange Nationalists, a fascist movement supported by Nazi Germany & Fascist Italy, to victory. The Popular Front government elected in 1936 was left-wing, anti Roman Catholic and aiming to break-up the landownership and nationalizing the economy. In the 3 years of very brutal fighting, this side was supported by many volunteer leftist foreign fighters who formed "International Brigades" (U.S. volunteers formed the Abraham Lincoln Brigade). This side also had much media support and some varying support from (Communist) Comintern & the Soviet Union.

IMHO, this was a war of the extremists on both sides. Spain was paralyzed by being unable to grow out of her history. Remembering the glory of empire but unable to make the economy work for all. If the Popular Front government had won, my feeling is that there would have also been a brutal dictatorship, just from the left!

[Saint Athanasius]

The Spanish Civil War is a little more complex than the author is making it out to be. I for one would have definitely fought for Franco. He wasn’t a fascist.

For those that really don’t know this history, they need to be aware of it because it coming here to the US. Some would argue that it is already here.

This book will be a helpful antidote to the those who have sympathies of the Republican Red Guard of Spain.

https://www.amazon.com/Last-Crusade-Spain-1936/dp/0931888670

[Captain Jack Aubrey]

I have been to the valley of the fallen. I have seen Franco‘s grave. I have traveled all around the world. And I will tell you that the valley of the fallen monument is the greatest national monument that I’ve ever seen in any country. It is breathtaking. It is awesome. Look it up on Wikipedia. Look at the pictures. It is not a monument to Franco. it is a monument to the dead of the Spanish Civil War. On both sides. There are 30,000 or more buried there.

I have mixed feelings about this reinterment.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

So is Chevy Chase’s career.

[MeganC]

“Spain confirms: Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead”

CNN this morning reports that Franco’s condition is stable.