Coming to U.S. postage stamps soon, I’m sure.
One of our more active Ukie cheerleaders is a Spaniard.
What a surprise! 
We failed to teach 2 entire generations the evil of the failed system of communism and are now reaping the price.
Every kid knows the Nazi’s killed 6 million Jews, but nearly no one under 30 knows that Communism killed over 100 million people.
I can teach a small child how and why communism doesn’t work in minutes, it’s quite easy.
Franco did his best to get rid them but they seem to come back like cucarachas.
Yes the atrocities by the Communists and those that opposed Franco we also horrible. However, the general feeling was that the Soviet Union sent those resisting Franco ship loads of weapons. Communism has clearly not worked to move Spain out of poverty, then again, the EU has also failed to move Spain out of poverty compared to other EU countries.
My perspective is that Communist ideology in terms of economic theory is not popular with the people, but that those whose grandparents fought, died, and were tortured by Frano, have a soft spot in their hearts for the image of the past Communist Party.
When you visit Spain you are struck by the three different police forces. The local or municipal police (phone 092) are controlled locally. The National Police (phone 091) are under a centralized national control and are to deal with more serious crimes. Civil Guard (phone 062) are very military in orientation and under centralized national control.
During Franco the Civil Guard and the National Police were used by that government to oppress various parts of the County. There are still strong feelings against them at times, especially in those regions (Basque, Catalonia, etc.) that think of themselves as semi-independent areas.
A big part of the Spanish Civil War was how the Spanish Communist Party, took control of the Popular Front government. Part of the control was the use of violence against other Leftists. The most infamous was the destruction of the Anti-Stalinist POUM, Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista. A major factor in the defeat of the Republican Government was this civil war among the Left. The Spanish Communist Party was following Stalin’s instructions and worked closely with NKVD and other Soviet security services sent to Spain.
Gen. Franco 2.0 with a side helping of Pinochet will solve this.
The Communist Party that sided with Stalin, and persecuted other leftist parties?
The Foreign Minister of the European Union, Josep Borell, belongs to the Spanish Socialist Workers Party.
Francisco Franco is valiantly clinging to death.
Franco didn’t kill enough of them.
Title could read: “Lack of concern among citizens as U.S. celebrates communist take over.”. Let alone postage stamps. Guess we need some ‘che’ or ‘billy ayres’ stamps? See tag line.
