Posted on 01/07/2024 6:27:12 PM PST by bitt
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Is Generalissmo Franciso Franco still dead???
Can they both lose?
The leftists on SNL mocked Franco because he was effectively anti-communist.
The pro-Franco stuff can be seen hung from balconies all over Spain. Thats how the Spanish conduct their disputes. They hang flags and banners and placards on their balconies. One guy, a socialist, has a CNT(anarchist union) flag, another has a Catalan or Basque flag, their neighbor has a Republican flag (the bottom stripe is purple), his neighbor has a regular Spanish flag (signalling opposition to separatism), the guy down the street may have a Carlist St Andrews cross (raggedy red cross on white), one may back ETA with a placard demanding release of political prisoners (ubiquitous in the Basque country). Etc and etc.
At election time some streets get quite colorful. I have to say that Vox has added to the variety.
And they all have a balcony. I think thats a law.
Yes, they can both lose. And they should both lose.
Dictatorship and tyranny is not a valid path for Christians. John Locke was right. Through observation, the scientific method, and the recognition of Right Reason in accordance with Natural Law, all humans have individual God-Given rights.
No dictatorship can handle having that throw in their face, doesn’t matter how big-time Christian they claim to be. And any dictatorship deserves to have it thrown in their face, good and hard.
See here for more details:
https://librivox.org/two-treatises-of-civil-government-by-john-locke/
The fascists won. We are all fascists now. We remain undecided on the flavor.
I will get flamed for this. Don’t care.
About the only thing the Nazis ever did right was to intervene in in the Spanish Civil War on behalf of Franco. Given the incredible legacy of death, destruction, murder, evil committed by Communist governments, all communist governments, it was the right thing to do.
Wow! Very Biden-esque...
Both Hugh Thomas and Anthony Beevor are fair. Beevors book is quite a good sprightly read IMHO, an excellent place to start, Thomas is a comprehensive fact dump.
Preston (the current standard) is a commie.
Stanley Payne is very good on Spanish politics of both sides.
I dont know if Pio Moa (Los Mitos de La Gurra Civil, etc ) is out in English, but his stuff is worth getting.
Viva El Caudillo
You ain’t wrong.
Spain must be run by leftists. Their loss.
To my thinking Franco was a hero
I’m with you on this
Face it - we’re in WW 3 against the communists.
Communists and islamists.
For three years, I lived in Spain during Franco’s rule. They were a proud people in the early 1970s and I enjoyed every day. It helped to have money, but there was no resentment.
Their advice was to not attract the attention of the State Police, (Guardia Civil), so I stayed out of their sight. (Easily identified by their unique patent-leather hats).
We were told that prisoners relied on “family” to keep them fed in prison; otherwise, it was bread and water. Prisoners were free to manufacture items that their families could sell to tourists.
Roads were given priority to attract vacationing foreigners to sunny Spain.
Ive got to say, those were the best of my days in the U.S. military.
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