Franco was very much in the right and restored, until his death, Spanish civilization. The "Loyalists" raped and murdered entire convents of nuns, killed half the priests and burned half the Churches. In spite of all that, Franco had the self-restraint not to conduct merited mass executions of "Loyalists" who, after all, were primarily loyal to Stalin particularly the maroons of such as the "American" Abraham Lincoln Brigade". Instead, Franco created a national cemetery in which to bury all who died on all sides in the "civil war" and decreed that the graves not be identified by the cause in which the deceased fell because "This war is over and these are all our honored dead." Franco was a Catholic and not some petty fascist. As an actual Catholic, he was more thoroughly despised by Moscow and by "progressive" elements in the West than were the actual fascists, to say nothing of the lionized Communists.
The Vatican ought to begin a cause for Franco's sainthood, and canonize him. AND Queen Isabella. AND the Empress Zita. AND Pius XII.
Viva Christo Rey!