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To: dennisw

Franco was really more of a neo-monarchist, which is quite different from a fascist, and of course was very religious. He didn’t engage in the sort of cult of personality / state worship that Hitler and Mussolini propagandized. Hitler very much took down/apart the churches. Mussolini couldn’t go that route because of the strong influence of the Roman Catholic Church in Italy.


63 posted on 07/24/2010 5:59:47 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (No Representation without Taxation!)
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To: FreedomPoster

Hitler had it in for the Jews but he never attacked churches the way the Russian communists of the same era did. His Hitler youth were an attack on the family but Stalin and Fidel Castro were much more into having children inform on parents and other family destroyers.

Latin America has had plenty of fascist regimes and they never attacked religion or the family. Was Pinochet a fascist? That’s what the left called him and he never attacked family and faith. The default for communists is they will make a “new man” and church and family get in the way of that.

In California and other places schools are offering free lunches in the summer. More leftist degradation of family responsibility


83 posted on 07/24/2010 8:13:22 AM PDT by dennisw (History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid - Gen Eisenhower)
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To: FreedomPoster
Franco was really more of a neo-monarchist, which is quite different from a fascist, and of course was very religious. He didn’t engage in the sort of cult of personality / state worship that Hitler and Mussolini propagandized.

Read somewhere he encouraged the hard core fascist ideologies to volunteer to help Hitler on the eastern front where they were, as is knew they would be, chewed up. Don't know the details however, do you?

104 posted on 07/24/2010 2:37:48 PM PDT by Brugmansian
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