"The battle for Spain", Antony Beevor, best book on Spanish Civil War & to understand modern Spain.

@shidehhafezi6826

4 ай бұрын

He is featured in this documentary.

@johndorilag4129

4 ай бұрын

It's just another british viewpoint of Franco

He was smart enough to sit out of World War II

@LarzGustafsson

3 ай бұрын

He was a hypocrite and a turncoat.

@laisphinto6372

3 ай бұрын

Because Putting spain First and Not involving themselves in another world war IS somehow treasonous

@alicelopes4693

3 ай бұрын

As did Salazar

@Johnnycdrums

2 ай бұрын

@@LarzGustafsson; He was Catholic first, second, and third. Everything else was just background noise.

@tommccormack770

2 ай бұрын

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This is a fascinating piece of history of which I had virtually no knowledge.

@BundleArundel

Ай бұрын

If you live in the USA,this view of events is suppressed.

This is a fantastic series. I've become enamored with the history of a country I previously knew almost nothing about

@The_Not_So_Great_Cornholio

5 ай бұрын

Check out BBC/Granada's 6 part documentary series on the Spanish Civil War (1979?). All the episodes are on YT. It's probably the best documentary ever made.

@SuperRosie123

5 ай бұрын

You may like to read "Ghosts of Spain" by Giles Tremlett and "Guernica" by Dave Boling. You may be able to get them second hand from world of Books or Abe Books.

@rafflesxyz4800

5 ай бұрын

@@SuperRosie123 / READ??!!

Middle school and high school Spanish classes glided past these points in the culture sections. Never heard about Peron till college history.

Why is this channel deleting comments? (even if they're non offensive)

Well presented

“What really mattered to the new ruling powers was freedom and democracy” 😂

@hurryandleave9680

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, that was a real knee-slapper.

@SwedishDrunkard5963

4 ай бұрын

yeah Nicuragua and Chile wants a word

@MoeHamHead-bx7og

4 ай бұрын

@@SwedishDrunkard5963 Nicaragua did become a democracy until Ortega was voted back in, and Chile is one today. Cuba and Venezuela...different story.

@SwedishDrunkard5963

4 ай бұрын

@@MoeHamHead-bx7og I dont think you understand at what time period im refering to

@MoeHamHead-bx7og

4 ай бұрын

@@SwedishDrunkard5963 I do. And those countries eventually became democracies, whereas countries which clung to socialism did not.

Seems the church has a lot to answer for. Far too many things are swept under the carpet and people need answers.

@KailamiMwiinga

2 ай бұрын

You can make this argument for every system

@royale7620

2 ай бұрын

Answer for what? That NKVD Republican death squads burned churches and killed priests? No wonder they came in power, that had to stop

Wow, this is a great documentary. Above all, I had no idea about the Palomares accident in September of 1966.

Excellent documentary

This was a fascinating series. I couldn't help drawing the parallels from Putin's Russia to Franco's Spain while watching. Very interesting, as I never saw how similar they were to each before learning more about Franco's Spain watching this series.

@Johnnycdrums

4 ай бұрын

Just stop already, oblique parallels, maybe, and if there are, I like it.

@royale7620

2 ай бұрын

They are nothing alike, Franco never allowed ex-communists any wealth or went to war and had allowed the US to set up bases in his country

@Johnnycdrums

2 ай бұрын

@@royale7620; Well, we do have one base there, Base Naval de Rota. I do not object to it. I have been there and it's O.K. in my book.

Franco knew how to stay in power,left Spain a King and at least a stable country🤔

@etahenry3377

4 ай бұрын

Not true

@rtyuhsgjjzbbwj

Ай бұрын

Franco extremist murderer officer

Franco reminds me of Pinochet

@AnkitSingh-xl6pt

5 ай бұрын

Pinochet on record had mentioned he was deeply inspired by Franco.

@Vancouverpillmuncher666

5 ай бұрын

Today Chile has the highest GDP, the lowest corruption and narco terror in S america

@herrero4270

5 ай бұрын

@@Vancouverpillmuncher666 Not thanks to Pinochet. Chile reached this achievements after Pinochet.

@rossr6616

5 ай бұрын

​@@Vancouverpillmuncher666after becoming a democracy

@daffyduk77

5 ай бұрын

@@Vancouverpillmuncher666 No thanks to Franco. Pinochet had prisoners tortured, and thrown out of planes. isn't that what the Colombian narco-barons used to do also ? Maybe their role model. And Franco had his opponents disappeared even after assuming geographic control. In "Nacht und Nebel" style.

And the 500,000 dead ? And the 40 years of repression, hundreds of thousands dead of starvation and disease?

@powerdriller4124

4 ай бұрын

De Gaulle´s France Government, between 1945 and 1948, purged (or allowed to be purged) about 300,000 collaborationist officers of the Vichy Regime .

@Cobe1976

4 ай бұрын

Spain had the fastest growing economy in the world under Franco, second only to Japan in the same period. Wtf are you talking about?

Although Franco was diametrically the political opposite of Josip Broz Tito, there were many similarities. Yes, they were dictators, but they both led their respective nations to peace and relative economic prosperity. People were free to stay or leave, unlike Eastern Europe.

@selah71

5 ай бұрын

Franco left most of the Spanish people poor throughout his dictatorship. There was very little middle class. Clothes were so expensive that women wore housecoats in winter and if you got a runner in your hose you stitched them. That's just a couple of examples and these took place during the last few years of his life while I was living in Spain. I've since been back after his death and is when people gained economic freedom. As well as freedom of speech, press, etc. He was oppressive, abusive and a fkn dictator!

@helpingus7135

5 ай бұрын

Women had to get a man's permission to travel

@Mark-yy2py

5 ай бұрын

@@helpingus7135 it least they had a chance to travel. it wasn’t too long ago (60s) where in the U.S., women (wives) could not obtain credit cards or checking accounts without their husband’s permission and signature.

@daffyduk77

5 ай бұрын

To say Franco "led ...nation[s] to peace..." misrepresents the militarist scum's project - and he only wanted prosperity to secure his grip on power, for his clique of pigs to gorge at the trough. To bribe them into loyalty & dependence

@Cyrstal_Rose

4 ай бұрын

"Peace?" Franco murdered at least half-a-million Spaniards after the civil war and kidnapped tens-of-thousands of children!

Sorry, is this the last episode? Where can I see the continuation?

Criminals were Stalin, Mao snd Pol Poht

@gerdlunau8411

4 ай бұрын

And Franco. They are all one mould with the same gruesome "tools". No difference here, sorry.

@royale7620

2 ай бұрын

​@@gerdlunau8411Communist apologetic

Franco is not forgotten by his victims' families (or historians).

@Johnnycdrums

4 ай бұрын

Nor by his Spanish heroes.

It's pretty apparent that most of those commenting on here lauding Franco don't have even an elementary grasp of the history of Spain or the Spanish Civil War. It is an incredibly complicated history and takes a lot of effort to get a grasp of. I suggest they go do that before making their asinine comments.

@DoubleMrE

5 ай бұрын

The voice of sanity in the YouTUBE comments. Will wonders never cease! 😊

@hurryandleave9680

4 ай бұрын

@@DoubleMrE No actual argument, just "I know more than you know."

@DoubleMrE

4 ай бұрын

@@hurryandleave9680 How do you know that? -jk 😊

@hurryandleave9680

4 ай бұрын

@@DoubleMrE He didn't say how the commenters he's criticizing are wrong.

@DoubleMrE

4 ай бұрын

@@hurryandleave9680 Whatever. Like I said, I was jk. ✌️

Within 3h when this has 890 views and 2 comments. Saving this one for later

That Eisenhower was a really nice bloke Look into what he did to German soldiers after the war Nice bloke

@davidhatton583

4 ай бұрын

You really don’t understand much…see what Stalin did…. Only a few thousand ever came home again of the hundreds of thousands captured. I read recently that he purposely gave a higher calorie diet to his Japanese prisoners mostly because they weren’t German

@Lamont-fy2xj

4 ай бұрын

You mean what they did to themselves for starting the war,

@Hadrada.

4 ай бұрын

@@Lamont-fy2xj You don’t treat soldiers like that If you think it’s ok then it’s no different saying what we are told happened to Jews is ok Do you think that’s ok?

@sinnopal1

4 ай бұрын

Eisenhower did really dirty to Germans.

@gerdlunau8411

4 ай бұрын

Hitler's Wehrmacht let thousands and thousands of Soviet POWs starve and freeze to death while advancing East in 1941-1943. They did it on purpose. My grandfather (ex-Wehrmacht soldier and NSDAP-member) was captured by the end of WW2 and put into a Soviet POW camp. He returned in the early 50s as one of the very last ones, totally exhausted and sick. It took him years to recover. But he never complained about it with a single word; always defending his Soviet guards. He told us time and time again, that they all received exactly the same meagre rations. The USSR with its huge wheat and corn fields in her liberated areas (but also his vast industries being all but destroyed) of Western Russia, Baltics, Belorussia and the Ukraine had no harvest in 1945. The fields were mined and littered with wrecked military equipment and ammunition, the farmers still in the army or dead and all the livestock decimated by the attacking Wehrmacht and then sweeping back Red Army. in wartime there is no farming! So how could the USSR feed anyone properly, their own folks or even the POWs? This is all self-explaining. With other words, in 1945 the whole USSR starved badly as many many other countries in Europe (West and East) did. The Western allies too had huge problems feeding their own population and POW-camps. Food stamps were the norm everywhere! My other grandfather was held in an American POW camp, they also camped in the open without toilets and had very little to eat and drink. Also, in the European POW camps of the USSR there were no Japanese POWs, just look at the map. Also the Red Army fought the Japanese only shortly, a few weeks after May 8th of 1945 until the Japanese surrender. Therefore the USSR should not have captured too many Japanese POWs. They preferred to die in battle anyway, being bulldozed by T34s. It is a tragedy that people particular in the "West" know so little about the Eastern theater of war (WW2) and the USSR in particular. It is amazing what weird claims and guesswork I found time and time again in these commentary lines. My impression is, that as soon as it has something to do with the USSR or Russia (being permanently thrown into one bucket anyway) it must "appear" inhuman, bad, backward, poor, drunken, horrible, silly etc. at any cost. Who of you people actually know this country and a bit of its history, to be permanently so biased? I travelled the world all over, including extensively the USSR and the PR China. It is time for us in the West to get our noses down quickly, anything else is dangerous (see Ukrainian war). Peace! from Dresden / Germany @@davidhatton583

This series is hilarious.

Belatedly, Franco came to understand that the fascist-style management of Spain's economy had been a disaster, and in 1957 he dismissed the fascist economists, replacing them with younger ones, who devoted to the free market. Their reforms were so successful, that the post-Franco democratic governments continued them.

Fascinating , a seldom discussed piece of European history. Wonder why .......

@herrero4270

5 ай бұрын

Because Spain is not as important as other nations.

@ricardodiazcollado813

5 ай бұрын

Anglos are profoundly hispanofobic.

the parallels with britain NOW are incredible.

@etahenry3377

4 ай бұрын

Eh? A massive civil war and 40 years of brutal dictatorship?

@NmpK24

3 ай бұрын

How so?

The Vatican is that lady of Babylon.

The Leftists were angels, had all the answers, didn't hurt a fly, and Franco was the personification of evil. Got it.

@Tybold63

5 ай бұрын

Indeed 😄sarcasm ftw.

@alihenderson5910

4 ай бұрын

Yes, people seem to be divided by their preferred flavours of authoritarianism. So sad.

@sinnopal1

4 ай бұрын

At least they didnt butcher spaniards...

@Cobe1976

4 ай бұрын

@@sinnopal1 didn’t butcher Spaniards? Didn’t kill unarmed civilians at Paracuellos? Didn’t burn churches and kill Spaniards for just being Catholic?

👍👍👍

😮😮😮

Awaiting episode 4 end of Franco's regime and restoration of the monarchy

@Djamonja

5 ай бұрын

You mean democracy? The monarchy was around and doing fine during Franco's regime.

@robinlouis7410

5 ай бұрын

@@Djamonja you're right but it was powerless. Whatever the case I will need another episode to finalize this whole series.

@Cobe1976

4 ай бұрын

@@Djamonja there was no king during Franco’s rule. What are you talking about?

@Djamonja

4 ай бұрын

@@Cobe1976 There was a king in exile wasn't there?

Franco helped me, Spanish refugees came to Australia and Viki became our house keeper who looked after me like a mother. Thank you Franco, now I have a farm in Estepona and love Spain and the Spanish!

@sdust251977

4 ай бұрын

Well, I never knew my great grandfather from Spain, but they left because of Franco to live in Cuba. I didn't know how close to me this history and this man played out as I'm cuban. All I know they left avoiding military service, one of them and the other for economic reason. Its fascinating to say the least.

@twindigo

4 ай бұрын

Why did your house keeper leave Spain?

@lightofchicagoproductionz9012

4 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂

The show seems to show that blockade was a fictional excuse, but later, after 4 years, the blockade was lifted. Which one is it

Very polarising, as any civil war must be: Horrible and damaging. Stability as a goal, safer than the alternatives, maybe worth supporting at nearly any cost! The horrors accepted though make you wonder. Badly managed as reaction to the Catalan independance movement has been, it is at least better than this recent history.

Sweet .. next the forgotten dictators of German and Italy next?

@cindymaceda2999

5 ай бұрын

And Portugal.😊

@hurryandleave9680

4 ай бұрын

Don't forget the American dictators Lincoln, Wilson, FDR and Biden.

According to the footage, it was not Mdm Franco who wore a fur coat 'despite the summer heat' (22:27) but Mdm Peron who did so (23:01). And the footage of American nuclear bombs is accompanied by footage of only Soviet military. Nothing about the opening up of Spain to mass tourism, and nothing about the reinstating of the king, much time devoted to discussing Pilar Navarro's present-day campaign for the abducted babies: hardly relevant. A sorry conclusion to otherwise fairly interesting (although biased) documenatries about Franco's Spain.

When you have learned what the Catholic priesthood did to children in Western democracies like Ireland, what they got up to in Spain just doesn't bear thinking about.

@alihenderson5910

4 ай бұрын

Now they have aligned themselves with the rainbow, gender confused left, so this travesty will only get worse.

@gerdlunau8411

4 ай бұрын

No, it is actually precisely the opposite. The Catholic church as an organisation is not aligning with them - even here in Germany they are now loosing thousands members every year because of their reactionary mindset. People are fed up with this organisation, and rightly so. I never liked all this woke bullshit, but sensitive abortion laws, acceptance of homosexual pairs and lifestyle and a clear separation from religious and state affairs are now part of educated societies. The Catholic church as an organisation is still so backward, time for them to wake up in today's world. If they don't, there is a good chance that they will diminish. Thanks god!@@alihenderson5910

@Cobe1976

4 ай бұрын

Are you saying it was worse in Spain because it wasn’t.

Guardia Civil were also notorious during the Spanish colonization of the Philippines....

Famous art painter Salvador Dali was a big supporter of Francisco Franco & José Antonio Primo de Rivera.

@helpingus7135

5 ай бұрын

Hemingway, Orwell, Sarte, Kahlo, Picasso and all the great intellectuals sided with the Republic

@JukeBoxDestroyer

5 ай бұрын

@@helpingus7135 and they still lost with all that celebrity magic?....i'm shocked

@helpingus7135

5 ай бұрын

@@JukeBoxDestroyer They were intellectuals NOT evil monsters

@hurryandleave9680

4 ай бұрын

@@helpingus7135 Orwell regretted and repudiated his support for the communists.

@4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz

4 ай бұрын

​@@helpingus7135​ LOL, "great intellectuals"? Hemingway's whole schtick was that he _wasn't_ an intellectual. Sartre was the ultimate trustafarian, a Marxist who was independently wealthy, a cultural vandal. Kahlo is famous because she was married to Diego Rivera and Salma Hayek made a movie about her. Picasso was a great artist, I'll admit, but he was crazy. Orwell was the only one in this group who I'd describe as a great intellectual.

People, as individuals, are smart, but when they group together, become stupid.

Franco was a Saint and Sinner but mostly a Survivor😮

In many ways he was like Salazar.

Sad.....no mention of Spanish dwindling empire 😮

@daffyduk77

5 ай бұрын

An interesting point, but attempting to cover a very big topic & only so much you can get in, I think.

@danrooc

4 ай бұрын

Watch part 1.

@kiwitrainguy

4 ай бұрын

It was essentially gone by 1900.

English documentaries about Spain, not very convincing 🤔😉

@NmpK24

3 ай бұрын

This is a German production, translated in to English. Why else are there German professors talking about Franco?

It was an informative and wonderful historical coverage video about ( Spain 🇪🇸 necessity dictatorship) François regime. Thank you for sharing..

King Felipe VI, Queen are the result❤❤❤ Truly a polished family, we should all learn from❤

@etahenry3377

4 ай бұрын

Yes,Felipe's father is an example to us all.Particularly if you are keen on corruption

Is a totally imparcial documentación, is totally clear is a political documentary with only one direction

So much to admire in the German military.......spread your forces over 1700 kilometers to take 3 principle objectives, and fail to take any at all.

@omaryusuf7204

4 ай бұрын

Yes they were naive and had horrible objectives, but have to admire their effectiveness on what there against

Sad to remember how the Spanish people did not have the cojones para terminar esta tragedia. Chilenos y Argentinos tambien.

Very interesting series, but somewhat biased.

The narrators constantly refereed to Franco's administration as being incompetent, but it looks like they played their cards pretty well.

@Johnnycdrums

4 ай бұрын

Spain did well under Franco, they immediately got worse following his death.

@royale7620

2 ай бұрын

Typical mad socialists, what did u expect?

Weirdo dictator apologists are all over this comment section! You guys are giving me a serious case of the ick. Keep your goose stepping in your basement 4Chan threads please!

@christopherhook2141

5 ай бұрын

Cry harder.

@timshimmin3468

5 ай бұрын

Yes they are giving me the ick too.

@Ztivar

4 ай бұрын

It's just a sad sign of virginity in old age and how they have not achieved anything in life :(

@laisphinto6372

3 ай бұрын

He was one of the very few WHO kept His Nation Out of the world war an achievement so called peaceful nations didnt achieve.

@grittyfaithgrittyfacts

3 ай бұрын

@@laisphinto6372 Sitting on the sidelines while the world burns while also suppressing your people's right to free expression and stealing your enemies children is NOT an achievement to be celebrated. It deserves condemnation, and it is really really really weird that you believe otherwise. You are endorsing an oppressive tyrannical kidnapping murdering regime. Do you get that????

So many Spanish left Spain, that the country was left poor.

As a Moroccan, it really so bitter to know all what that dictator did to my country , I think we and Spain will stay enemies forever

@hemmisis

4 ай бұрын

What about Morrocos treatment of Western-Sahara?

@4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz

4 ай бұрын

A lot of Moroccans love Spain

@sevilla7ful

27 күн бұрын

My family suffered too, they left Spain due to persecution and came to the UK. Malaga was bombed to the ground. The older generations of my family do not like to talk about it. Franco's regime was evil.

The Americans and the Abrit-the British.... ...Whew!..close one

France who capitulated and allied herself with the nazis under the Vichy regime and fired on our army during operation Torch was given an occupation role in both Germany and Berlin. The help we received during our revolution was more because it was in the interest of the French to keep England busy in the colonies and weaken England in Europe. They did not do it out of the goodness of their hearts. In 1795, the United States was finally able to settle its debts with the French Government with the help of James Swan, an American banker who privately assumed French debts at a slightly higher interest rate. We instead suffered more helping France in both world wars and the debacle in Vietnam and let them control part of Germany after ww1 and ww2. At least the Spaniards did not fight against us.

@laisphinto6372

3 ай бұрын

Jews fled also to spain to escaped the Nazis and with spanisch Passports the Nazis couldnt Touch them

This series left me firm in my realization that Catholicism has nothing to do with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

@Cobe1976

4 ай бұрын

Lutheranism and Calvinism have nothing to do with the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Franco was an opportunist and most of the spain after him were too.

@danrooc

4 ай бұрын

Is there any politician who is not an opportunist?

@dennis771

4 ай бұрын

@@danrooc Franco was worse

@danrooc

4 ай бұрын

@@dennis771 Worse than whom? At the time there were fine people and plain monsters, in both sides.

Franco was the right man at the right time to lead Spain out of Socialism. Franco was no Fascist, he was a Traditionalist.

@SwedishDrunkard5963

4 ай бұрын

he was a tradisonalist Militaristic Nationalistic and Coperatistic dictator, souds very similar to fascism

@Johnnycdrums

4 ай бұрын

@@SwedishDrunkard5963; He was traditionalist Catholic, first, second, and third.

@SwedishDrunkard5963

4 ай бұрын

@@Johnnycdrums who just happend to be best friends with the nazis & Italian Fascists and have a very similar economy and belifes

@Johnnycdrums

4 ай бұрын

@@SwedishDrunkard5963; He wasn't friends with any of these people.

I’m not pro dictatorship but one thing is true, the communist never got a foothold there.

@herrero4270

5 ай бұрын

And so, they remained backwards, rancid and reactionary.

He was a devout anti Marxist so he was not a threat to the West,unlike Castro in Cuba

Franco's regime was not a fascist one. Firstly he was a general, commander in the African army. As the leader of the army he fought the communist revolution, than evolving from a militar dictatorship to a personal one, and after that to a corporatist one. Also he was an authoritarian dictator, a regime similar to the authoritarian one in Salazar's Portugal, Monarchical dictatorship of King Charles II of Romania in 1938 and the dictatorship of Ioannis Metaxas in Greece. In Metaxas dictatorial regime coexists elements of a classical dictatorship- military power, regim of perpetual crisis, founded on old institutions, the Monarchy and the Church with some elements that apparentelly are inspired by Mussolini -anti-communism, nationalism etc. Remeber this were authoritarian regimes, conservative dictatorships with elements more or less similar, but not totalitarian ones like in Fascist Italy and National-Socialist Germany or in Communist USSR. There are also other more complicate examples which did evolve into fascism, like in Hungary: Horthy's White terror, communist counter-revolution (after the regime of Mihály Károlyi 'The red count' continued by Béla Kun who command the Hungarian communist revolution of 1919), Horthy's regime was conservative aristocratic combined with militarism, than it was the regime of Bethlen, conservative oligarchic, and in the '32-'33 became fascist.

@horeageorgian7766

5 ай бұрын

Tudorica, to be truthfull, you can not talk about a communist revolution as the republic was in power and it was there not by revolution but legally elected.

@royale7620

5 ай бұрын

Excellent take! One of the best takes Ive read so far, a very educated one as compared to the many idiots here

@patrickporter1864

5 ай бұрын

Are you sure the Republic was communist.

@herrero4270

5 ай бұрын

Military dictatorships are usually fascistoid. The have many things in common with the Italian fascist dictatorship. Franco's fascism was different by the incorporation of the Catholic element, but all fascisms have their own particularisms, derived from their national characteristics.

@royale7620

5 ай бұрын

@@herrero4270 Go to sleep kid u are way over ur head

Kidnapping is punishable by death in the Bible.

@4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz

4 ай бұрын

A lot of things are punishable by death in the bible

A great man, recognizing the threat of both capitalism and communism. Look at the world today. It's what you get without a Franco.

@becut95

4 ай бұрын

Could you elaborate?

@hurryandleave9680

4 ай бұрын

@@becut95 The record of communism speaks for itself. As for capitalism and "democracy", what they've given us is perpetual war and rule by unaccountable oligarchs. The leaders of Europe and Anglophone countries couldn't care less about the welfare and opinions of their constituents. This, it seems to me, is self-evident.

This is British? Well, we know what the Scottish Rite and Black Nobility think of Tradition.

...interested in freedom and democracy? Those are sweet word, but the behavior of the Western powers since, suggests otherwise. The Cold War was Franco's saving grace.

If the land distributed was barren, how comes those colonies exist even today? As for the "activists" (aka communist dreamers) changing the names of these colonies, did they renamed them after Stalin? For what we know at the same Stalin was deporting the so called kulaks.

@herrero4270

5 ай бұрын

It's said that some were barren, with low productivity. That's not an impediment to exist. There were not communists in the time of those colonies.

@horeageorgian7766

5 ай бұрын

@@herrero4270 This mocumentary claimed that the settlers in those colonies were cheated by giving them barren land. Interestingly they did not leave that land but seems to enjoy the "cheat". The only one talking about communists _in the time_ are you. I and the mocumentary is talking about when the name was changed, pretty recently. (Btw, what do you mean by "time of those collonies? They are running these days too.)

@herrero4270

5 ай бұрын

@@horeageorgian7766 Everybody enjoy they poor possessions. At least they give them the ilusion of beign landowners, despite the fact that a disposessed wage worker in the city has a higher income. I see you didn't understood my statemente. This days there're are not communists trying to change the name of those colonies. But wai!!! I forgot...to the fascists, eliminatig the names of their glorified butchers from fascist extraction, is equivalent to "communism".

Dictators cant be good

@jirichuran

5 ай бұрын

The Spain show us, that reality is different, . . . Not every diktatorship is the worst option.

@thesecondsilvereich7828

5 ай бұрын

Rome had many and people loved them and if you think about it kings and queen are dictatorships

@sdkfz2519

5 ай бұрын

They can be, as long as they are not leftist, and there are many of them: Franco, Pinochet, Lee Kuan Yu, and Gen. Park Chung Hee, to name a few. They all built their countries and saved their nations from evils of communism.

@hen5526

5 ай бұрын

Lee kuan yew - Singapore

Franco was both an ally and enemy.

@laisphinto6372

3 ай бұрын

So staying neutral equals enemy ?

This child stealing is so sad and to think this is currently happening in Ukraine. People are terrible to their own kind so lame.

Franco never had a son 😮

@rossr6616

5 ай бұрын

since he had "war wounds" in his "lower abdomen" so was likely made a Eunuch

Funny how the adoring fans stopped giving THAT salute to Franco in 1946¡

@kiwitrainguy

4 ай бұрын

He banned it in 1945.

@AndyJarman

4 ай бұрын

@@kiwitrainguy can't think why?

Is Francisco Franco still dead?

@daffyduk77

5 ай бұрын

Not if some of the contributions on here are to be believed. Wearing the evil man's T-shirt, no doubt

Viva Franco

Generalissimo Fransisco Franco is still dead

Loved the inclusion of that Trump in the dictator clause!!

Because I am an eyewitness to Franco's Spain, my opinion means something. I had a blast in Spain in 1961~1963. It was one big party, the sangria was the best and being 10~11 years old I thought it was very cool that there was no taboo on me diving into the delicious punch resulting in my first hangover. The Mediterranean was loads of fun too. Everyone was Happy, so my experience with President Franco's Spain was all good. *** Remember, Franco had the good sense to stay out of WW-II just like Switzerland. I can't fault him for doing what he had to to keep the Reds out of Spain unlike present day United States of America with no less that 75,000 CPUSA as of 1947, now every major University in America has Marxist, Socialist, and Communist professors propagandising their students. What you see is what you get.

@benzz4960

5 ай бұрын

Oooooh scary communists. You sound pathetic

@BenSussmanpro

5 ай бұрын

Everyone was happy?? What about the 1000’s of mothers who had their babies snatched from them; or the political prisoners who suffered for speaking out for democracy; or the thousands of starving families in the 1950s, thanks to epic corruption & misrule by Franco; or how about every single Spanish citizen who wanted a democracy with elected representation and freedom to speak out against Franco’s corruption and inept rule. Are those people happy ?!

@SaintlyAussie

5 ай бұрын

Franco stayed out of WWII because he had nothing to offer the axis, his people were starving and he had no Navy or Air Force.

@macrosense

5 ай бұрын

I had only attended middling colleges in America and can assure you there were no Marxist or communist professors

@clawsoon

5 ай бұрын

So you're saying, "I had a good time, who cares about all those people who were tortured and executed"?

Very poorly made documentary

@herrero4270

5 ай бұрын

Of course...it didn´t confirm your predjuices and beliefs

@rossr6616

5 ай бұрын

fabulous doc actually!

@daffyduk77

5 ай бұрын

@@herrero4270 the opinions of Spaniards are the ones that count, I'd think

@herrero4270

5 ай бұрын

@@daffyduk77 The opinions of the Spaniards count the same than somebody's else. Even less, when they're biased by their fascist ideology, aking to their beloved dictator.

@henrytroll3439

5 ай бұрын

They say something true and not continue , so half truths

as checy chase said "fransisco franco is still dead"

Clearly biased against the regime, average western documentary…

From what i tried to find about the economy in Spain, it seems that it was ok during the Franco era and was plummeting by 1982. Same as the Greek economy after the military hunta. It also seems that these right wing officers in both Greece and Spain, did ok by their country and the socialist governments after the huntas messed things up. We also see the decline of our economy in our country under democratic administrations The overspending will cause many issues in the near future. I just hope it can wait till I pass. I am now 67 and we worked hard and served our country in the military. I don't want our efforts to be for nothing, but if I am not around, I guess I will not know about it or not care for this world as much.

@herrero4270

5 ай бұрын

All the existing information prove that poverty was the tonic during the Franco era, except at the end, when the Opus Dei took control of the economy.

@daffyduk77

5 ай бұрын

I'm 67 too but they taught me some History at school. And politics, even. Your view seems to be , you can't beat a good honest (!) dictatorship to knock the B'jesus out of your opponents and "make the trains run on time" in the expression often associated with Mussolini's regime. I'm sure there are military dictatorships you can relocate to if democracy's not for you in your Autumn years

Very much a left wing "truth" put forward in this doco.

Your voice-over is terribe and you should learn some history.

Franco's legacy: Communists never got control of Spain, the Red Terror was avenged, and Spain never devolved into a pathetic patchwork of linguistic microstates.

@Weaponizedadhd303

5 ай бұрын

True

@BenSussmanpro

5 ай бұрын

What red terror? You think the American bases prevented the soviets from dropping a bomb, lol?

@davidnacey7281

5 ай бұрын

@@BenSussmanpro If ignorance is bliss, you must have achieved nirvana. Just to show you how easy it is to find info, I've dumbed it down for your infantile intellect all the way down to Wikipedia, so even you could have found it if you had cared to look. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Terror_(Spain) What's next for Ben? Oh, yeah, "What Holocaust?"

@caitrionaryan3662

5 ай бұрын

Franco’s legacy: Genocide of opponents who fought for the democratically elected government, the stealing of children from their families, the use of slave labour to built a shrine to himself. Get over yourself with this prevention of communism, plenty of countries avoided a communist dictatorship without installing a fascist one

@sdkfz2519

5 ай бұрын

​@@BenSussmanproCommunism is a mental illness, so I don't blame you for not understanding what "Red Terror" is.

Yikes. Is anything in this documentary true? You blame Franco for babies being stolen then slip in the inconvenient fact that they continued to be stolen for 20 yrs after Franco? What?

Franco was much like President Biden.

@danrooc

4 ай бұрын

Actually, Franco might rather make good friends with Trump. As Putin and Kim.

@4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz

4 ай бұрын

He never had his secret police investigate parents who didn't want their 11 yos subjected to porn in school libraries

@4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz

4 ай бұрын

He didn't open his borders and unlive 100K Americans a year with border drugs

@4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz

4 ай бұрын

He didn't send $110B to Ukraine when 650K Americans were homeless

@4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz

4 ай бұрын

He didn't keep spending insanely when the national debt was $35T

Left wing bollocks ...

@Ztivar

4 ай бұрын

Great argument...

Seems the church has a lot to answer for. Far too many things are swept under the carpet and people need answers.

@Johnnycdrums

4 ай бұрын

The Spanish Inquisistion was a noble and holy endeavor.

@gerdlunau8411

4 ай бұрын

This is correct and does not only apply to Spain. The scandals for the Catholic church as an organisation (not to be confused with people having a Catholic Christian believe or faith - me as an atheist I make a huge difference here) goes as far as Canada, Ireland, Germany, Australia. What makes matters worse and so horribly bad is that the victims are often children and lots of them. As with almost any ideologic organisations (be it fanatic / extreme communist, religious or nationalist) they are suppressing others with all their might once in power. No need to glorify the Catholic church as an organisation - they too failed horribly many times during history. Peace! from Dresden / Germany

@Ztivar

4 ай бұрын

@@Johnnycdrums in what way?