You can't be serious. Two horrible opposing ideologies were fighting each other, that's all. The least worst side won. Franco was no saint, but it would have been far worse for Spain if the commies had won. At the same time the war was going on, Stalin was busy with his show trials and mass executions which totaled in the millions. This is just right after his policy of exterminating millions of Ukrainians through starvation by collectivization.
If the commies would have won, they'd still be uncovering the buried mass graves. As it was the Spanish Civil War killed about one million Spaniards.
> You can’t be serious
I am.
> Franco was no saint, but it would have been far worse for Spain if the commies had won.
And what of the rest of the world? You forget that Spain was Hitler’s dress-rehearsal. That is probably because you are American and there is a good-sized gap between the Spanish Civil War and WW-II. That is because America played hooky during 1939-1941 in the war against Hitler.
For the rest of the world, WW-II began just about the same time as the Spanish Civil War ended. Hitler had his dress-rehearsal in Spain, and he was ready-to-go.