If Franco had lost, Hitler would have invaded Spain after France fell, and probably seized the rest of North Africa
as well.
That would have prolonged WWII by at least another year.
So, in the long run, a neutral Franco in Spain was better for the world (whatever it meant for Spain) than a Republican victory there.
“Franco was a homicidal bum and a Fascist.”
Bull crap.
Whenever anyone thwarts the communist bastards — Nixon, Pinochet, Marcos, and before them, Franco — the world media, the writers of textbooks, all of academia, all leftists everywhere...every lowlife crawling scum on the face of the planet...all go into high gear to tar his name and blacken his reputation.
Everyone who stood in communism’s path and said, “NO” is a hero.
By the way, the killing of communists bent on imposing communism by force of arms is by no rational definition “murder,” regardless of the circumstances or “legality” of the killing.
Franco wrested Spain from the clutches of a Stalinist tyranny and saved her people from Communist slavery.