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To: Angelino97
Franco was a fascist.
53 posted on 05/13/2023 9:26:25 AM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: jmacusa
Technically, Franco was a Falangist, not a Fascist. Although perhaps not even that.

Some say Franco wasn't too ideological. A conservative authoritarian and a pragmatist, who united the anti-Communist factions -- Falangist, Carlist, Monarchist, etc. -- to fight the Reds.

57 posted on 05/13/2023 9:53:54 AM PDT by Angelino97
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To: jmacusa

Franco himself wasn’t a Fascist. He was a Catholic traditionalist. The Fascists were revolutionaries. Franco’s government, however, was partially Fascist from 1936 to 1944 because some of the ministers belonged to the Falange, which was a Fascist group. Franco had Falangist ministers because during the Civil War he needed Italian and German support and later - during WWII - he didn’t want Spain to be attacked by the Germans. After 1944 the Falange lost all influence and was only kept for ceremonial purposes.

I recommend reading some books by Stanley Payne, a non-leftist historian who wrote extensively on Spain and Fascism.


69 posted on 05/13/2023 11:06:02 AM PDT by Czech_Occidentalist
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To: jmacusa

There were Jewish Fascists in Italy Musolini disliked the Nazis Antisemitism, but then he started to kiss up to hitler.


79 posted on 05/13/2023 12:07:43 PM PDT by cowboyusa (IT'S TIME TO PLAY COWBOYS AND MARXISTS!)
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