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To: curmudgeonII
What on earth do you think Franco's Falange was, if not a direct copy of the Italian Fasciti and the German Nazis?

A marriage of convenience between the Syndicalists of JONS and the Carlist-Integrists of the Requétes, both of which groups played vital roles in defeating the Stalinoids. The "Falangist" National Movement had nothing in common with the pagan, blood-and-soil socialism of the Nazi party, and little resemblance to the atheistic, imperialist state-worship of the Fascists under Mussolini. Being neither ideologue nor imperialist, Franco's goals were neither racial purity (the goal of the Nazis) nor empire (the goal of the Fascists) for Spain; he simply insisted that Spain survive as an organic and culturally Catholic entity, and the so-called Falange was merely his means to that end.

History has judged Franco harshly as a dictator who established a repressive police state, but in reality he was simply the only man with the courage to do what obviously had to be done to root out and destroy the filthy Republican regime, both during and in the years following the war. Despite his near-universal condemnation, however, he neither asked permission nor forgiveness of the world for doing his duty toward Spain, and I will always respect his memory for that.

As for his soul -- well, I'm sure our Lord will judge him justly.

50 posted on 06/27/2003 1:17:20 PM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: B-Chan
A marriage of convenience between the Syndicalists of JONS and the Carlist-Integrists of the Requétes, both of which groups played vital roles in defeating the Stalinoids.

All good except "Stalinoids" did not come into until after Franco start revolution. It is like blaming start of American Revolution on Hessians.

54 posted on 09/11/2003 6:44:32 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one’s nose.-Heine)
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