And after Franco took all that military aid from Hitler & Mussolini, he kept Spain out of the Axis and out of WWII except for the token “Blue Division”. Three years of civil war was enough.
The Loyalists on the other hand allowed the entire Spanish gold reserves to be transferred to the Soviet Union. BTW, when the Reds had run out of priests & nuns to murder, they desecrated the graves of those religious who had already passed to their reward.
F*** communism!