God bless Franco. 
Posted on 06/27/2025 2:26:08 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
In this video, we reveal the truth about the left in the Spanish Republic during the Civil War. Discover the shocking history of religious persecution in Spain and the impact of the Law of Historical Memory on Spanish history. Throughout Spanish history, and more specifically during the Second Republic, Spanish politics and left-wing parties created an unbearable climate for certain segments of the Spanish population. In this video, we explore the burning of convents and churches that took place between May 11 and 13, 1931, when more than 100 religious buildings were set on fire in several Spanish cities, including Madrid, Malaga, Valencia, and Seville. In addition, we delve into the case of Joan Rovira i Roure, mayor of Lérida in 1936, who was sentenced to death and executed on August 27, 1936. His sentence was due, among other reasons, to the fact that, in his capacity as mayor, he authorized the celebration of the Three Kings' Parade in January 1936, defying the prohibitions on religious demonstrations imposed by the Republican authorities.
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What the author describes sounds like the Floyd Riots in many respects.
A note therein: After World War I, ITT ventured throughout parts of Spain, establishing telephone communications where there had not been any.
That, after centuries of Spain very slowly working, and fighting, its way from being a Balkanized State, to where people where actually doing better, getting along.
Until the telephone.
The telephone communications allowed factions scatter around the country, to meet and unite, resulting in a return to divisions . . . leading to severe divisions between clusters of people.
Mass murder is a communist specialty.
They’re really great at it… it’s the ONLY thing communists are good at.
God bless Franco.
God bless Franco.
And Pinochet!
Some of us have theorized that these communist atrocities, done to the faithful of Spain, were well-known to the Catholics of France in 1939-1940 and explain in part the pathetic state of French morale that produced a stunning defeat at the hands of the Nazi invaders. This mindset, that no doubt originated in a deep loathing of the communist movement, then well-established in France, explains the attitude of collaboration by Vichy with the German right.
The history of the communist atrocities in Spain has been largely shoved down the memory hole by journalism and history, as were those atrocities committed by communists in Ukraine about a decade earlier.
However, journalism and history took a keen interest in the French resistance that opposed the Nazis, especially in coordination with Allied actions there, beginning on D-Day. A great portion of that resistance was simply resistance by communists.
Many factors are presented to explain the otherwise inexplicable failure of the French effectively to resist the Nazi invasion. After all, the French had more troops, better equipment and the advantage of defense. Yet everywhere they acted with a defeatist mindset that the facts on paper did not justify. Interestingly, we see Churchill flying to France as the German advance rolled on, only to be shocked by the feckless French.
My surmise is that a pious Catholic in France made a rational choice between a Nazi occupation on the one hand and collaboration with communists on the other. He saw the excesses of the communist in Spain, but had no evidence at that time of the atrocities to be committed by the Nazis.
It sounds to me like the murderous anticlerical excesses of the French Revolution.
It almost happened again after the Liberation of Paris in 1945. The Communists were trying to seize control of the city, putting their enemies on trial for alleged collaboration with the Nazis. It was DeGaulle who put a stop to it.
Viva!
Spanish Republicans were openly backed by the Commies.
The Spanish Republicans STARTED the Spanish Civil War when they MURDERED the leader of the Falangist political party Jose Calvo Sotelo (what kind of "democracy" murders its political opponents?)
The Socialists/Commies had been murdering priests, nuns, landowners and anybody opposed to their politics off and on from 1931 to the outbreak of the civil war in 1936.
The Spanish Nationalists rose in reaction to the numerous atrocities and increasingly oppressive authoritarian rule of the Socialists/Commies.
The Spanish Nationalists/Falangists were not fascists. You could reasonably call them reactionaries, but they never had the goal of imposing totalitarian rule over Spain and indeed they did not. Religious minorities for example were tolerated. Many Many thousands of Jews fled to and through Spain prior to and during WWII. Franco's government did nothing to stop them.
Spain's economy grew tremendously under Franco and the Falangists peacefully stepped aside and allowed a Democratic government to take power of a now vastly wealthier Spain. The Commies would have delivered neither prosperity nor a peaceful transition to Democracy or at the very least, would have delivered the latter much later.
If I were Spanish and had to pick sides, choosing Franco over the Commies would have been an extremely easy choice. Viva el Caudillo!
They both knew how to deal with filth Commie Swine.
Nobody is really hiding anything, or if they are it's not working. Mostly just people don't care so much about it. It was long ago and the post-Franco government is not a return to the Spanish Republic.
What IS that?
Most likely had the Republicans remained in power, the Nazis may have invaded Spain, and seized Gibraltar.
Franco threw Hitler just enough bones to keep the Nazis out of Spain.
Also, don’t forget that between 23 August 1939 and 22 June 1941 the Nazis and the Communists were allies.
(And the German and Soviet secret services had acted in consort to some extent ever since 1933.)
Extreme reactions to extreme ties of Church and State.
After having some of those bones thrown to him, Hitler supposedly said that he'd prefer to have three or four of his own teeth pulled out than to speak to Franco again.
Watched this movie-Guernica. Pretty bad. The town of 1500 was bombed. Had to be Franco. Didn’t he have the planes?
Orwell’s book. Homage to Catalonia was great. Just didn’t know who the bad guys were. Made no sense for him to get involved-Englishman. Under-equipped, under trained and they hung out in the mud and stench.
I always thought the US today has a similar environment to that of before the Spanish Civil War. Leftist authorities generally giving a pass to leftist violence.
“God bless Franco. And Pinochet!”
Not sure about Pam (the style seems to match Marcus), but I’m with you on this one. It was either Franco or the Communists (and their associated mass murders)...and after WW2, they would have made a mess of Europe/NATO.
As to the Clergy, as we later learned in Central America, they made the choice to be PLAYERS, which is why they were dealt with as such.
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