Exposing The Diabolical Atrocities Of Francisco Franco Of Spain

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Francisco Franco y Bahamonde was born in El Ferrol, Spain, on December 4th 1892. His father’s military background and his mother’s devout Catholicism shaped the young Franco into a hardline traditionalist and after an uneventful childhood he entered a military school and progressed into the army. Despite a lackluster performance in the academy, Franco proved to be an incredible soldier in the field. He spent over a decade fighting in Morocco where he soared up the ranks, becoming Spain’s youngest Captain, Major, and then General in 1926. He was admired for his bravery and personal discipline that earned him the respect of his men and others in the military establishment. Franco settled into the command of
Zaragoza General Military Academy and spent several years quietly teaching the next generation of Spanish officers, but events were transpiring that would lead Franco down a very different path.
In April 1931, King Alfonso XIII of Spain was deposed by elections and a new left-wing Republican government took power. The Republican government closed Franco’s academy and reassigned him to an insignificant post to get him out of the way. Across Spain, Catholic schools and charities were closed down, Catholic orders like the Jesuits were outlawed, and priests were imprisoned and sometimes killed by spontaneous left-wing violence. Things got so bad that Pope Pius XI publicly denounced Spain for its oppression of the Church. Cuts to the military were one thing, but these attacks of Catholicism infuriated many Spaniards like Franco, but he kept his head down and obeyed his orders for the time being.
Spanish voters made their opposition clear in 1933 when they voted a right-wing coalition into power. However, the existing government blocked the right-wing parties from entering government for over a year. Soon after, Socialist and Communist militias staged insurrections to prevent a right-wing takeover of the country. The worst of these was in Asturias where labor unions rose up and killed dozens of people including priests, businessmen, and soldiers in October 1934. The government needed someone to deal with them: they needed Franco.
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[@okie-kan9240]

Your channel is awesome! You are doing a service to society.

[@HarmonixHealing]

So well done.... I'm hooked on your channel .... thank you & keep it up

[@johnnyfives5416]

Are their gonna be videos on Spanish Republicans war crimes especially their anti clericalism against the catholic church that turn public opinion domestically and internationally against them and sided and support especially by neutral states.

[@Based_Stuhlinger]

@@johnnyfives5416Of course not, he's biased like most of these video essay people.

[@j.peters1222]

I like the way you covered this. Franco was a very interesting character and certainly didn't follow the path most dictators take. Most kill off their enemies as Franco did but also consolidate their power with no intentions of ever giving it up willingly.

[@jdee8407]

It was actually a German Admiral named Canaris who helped to convince Franco to never join the Axis. Canaris was secretly working against Hitler. And in a confidential meeting it was speculated that Canaris told Franco that Germany would lose the war, since their economy could never hope to match the Allies. That defeat was only a matter of time. And also there were tons of atrocities being committed and when the Allies won he could be tried as a war criminal. So Franco made demands that he knew where so high Hitler would never agree to them, it was a smart way of giving himself an out as to not join the Axis.

[@strfltcmnd.9925]

Franco's troops in North Africa were airlifted to Spain by the Luftwaffe. The first large scale movement of troops using airpower.

[@enriquediazgarcia7552]

So his mistake was to unify and stabilize Spain and keep the majority of the population from infighting and foreign powers from interfering?

[@afrikasmith1049]

Moral of the story: At the end of the day a King is still a man who is always capable of either doing good, evil or even both.

[@javiermartinez5542]

España: una !!! España: grande !!! España: libre. Viva Franco !!! Arriba España !!! !!! 💪💪💪

[@guyfromaucklandnz]

If nothing else we should at least be grateful that Spain didn't end up as a communist state before the Cold War had even started. I'm not saying that as any blanket defense of Franco, but who knows how much worse things might have been if the Soviets had a nuclear launching pad right on Europe's ankle.

[@asturiasceltic3183]

The Spanish Civil War was not about communism but democracy. Russia only joined after the Fascists overthrew the democratic elected government of the Republic. Russia had no interest in Spain as a satelite state.

[@g-dcomplex1609]

the spanish mauser in 7mm is one of the finest weapons ever created

[@paulneedham9885]

Good to see a balanced view of Franco and not a rabid right or left wing view.

[@philmitchellboxing8661]

Shut up mate you need ham 😂

[@wavell14]

this is a left wing view

[@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356]

​@@wavell14sad

[@barrymayson2492]

There were Spanish interned at Mathausen concentration camps, there were captured by the German Condor legion. Franco did not care about them and refused to allow them to return to Spain when the Germans offered. I think they were treated better than the other races but it still a concentration camp so not a good life . A few made it till the end of the war but not sure how many or what happened to them.

[@paigetomkinson1137]

About 7,000 were sent to Mauthausen, where 4,427 died.. That was out of approximately 30,000 deported to Germany at large for forced labor. People who were in the International Brigades were also incarcerated at Mauthausen.

[@rolloxra670]

There’s a movie about it in Netflix

[@magnus19g8xc9]

@@rolloxra670Whats the name?

[@rolloxra670]

@@magnus19g8xc9 The Photographer of Mauthausen

[@kevinjohnson3521]

There are more races, I thought we are all humans?!?! Tell me more…

[@Gr8Notion]

There are so many videos like that failed to mention the connections these men had rising to power. There’s no way you can get there without connections.

[@francisebbecke2727]

Franco was nobody's definition of a nice guy, but nice guys were chewed up and spat out during the Spanish Civil War. He had enough brains to stay out of WW II which is more than could be said of Mussolini. He allowed thousands of Jews to be saved, but could have done more. He kept Spain out of the Soviet orbit during the Cold War to his credit. He was a man of his times and knew which side of the bread the butter was on. He provided for a peaceful transition of power for when he was gone. Could he be bad? Yes. Could he have been worse? Yes.

[@asturiasceltic3183]

LOL... Franco made anti-semitic remarks at rallies, sent Himler a list of all jews in Spain for the final solution, along with aiding and abetting the Nazis during WW2. Once Franco saw the writing on the wall that the Allied forces were going to win in WW2, Franco did a huge public relations spin and pretended to be pro-jew after sending so many to the concentration camps. Franco had a vision of the "perfect Spaniard" like Hitler had his vision of the perfect German and Jews were not part of that vision.

[@cv507]

did röme rule half euröbb ??? höw many gr8 ämpheiäss has yövr sauce cöntinGent häD v??v Fi$.hFöölce synkink xxxP

[@enlosluceros7236]

And he industrialized Spain

[@asturiasceltic3183]

@@enlosluceros7236 Spain made more rapid progress in industry and technology after Franco's death. More progess was made in 30 years after his death than in Franco's entire reign including the railway system.

[@carlosacta8726]

Thank you for a very cogent and pragmatic comment. The fact is as you said that there were no "nice guys" in the early 20th century. At least none that can be spoken of or remembered. The choices were Franco, Hitler or Stalin. I go with Franco!

[@SanCreatividad]

I saw that Franco had made a heroic and colossal attempt to save his country from disintegration. With this understanding there also came amazement: there had been destruction all around, but with firm tactics Franco had managed to have Spain sidestep the Second World War without involving itself, and for twenty, thirty, thirty-five years, had kept Spain Christian against all history’s laws of decline! But then in the thirty-seventh year of his rule he died, dying to a chorus of nasty jeers from the European socialists, radicals, and liberals. ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[@esto_no_es_un_taladro]

As a Spaniard, I find these statements terribly disrespectful. Franco was a terrible dictator who, together with other military men, revolted against a fully democratic state. ‘Saving the country from disintegration’ was precisely the excuse that the Francoists used to justify the atrocities they were committing. Franco himself decided to prolong the war (even if it meant the death of his own men) because, in his own words, it was essential to eliminate all the ‘Reds’ (communists, anarchists, socialists, republicans, atheists, homosexuals and anyone who dissented from the doctrines of the regime) in order to ‘purify the country’. His regime committed, not only during the war, but during the 40 years of his dictatorship, all kinds of crimes, from executions, death sentences, kidnapping of babies, torture, imprisonment in terrible conditions, forced labour... Today in Spain there are still more than 200,000 bodies of victims of the regime in mass graves that have not been unearthed and whose relatives never knew where they were buried. To justify a dictatorship like his because the previous government was quite left-wing only shows a terrible lack of ethical principles.

[@Divano-qw2sb]

@@esto_no_es_un_taladro You have no idea of how many spaniards I saw commenting under other videos about the spanish civil war of how the second republic was made of evil communist who raped nuns and killed priests all the time and how Franco and the nationalists were the "good guys" in the civil war since they stood for the good values of christianity and tradition. I have to say that it saddened me seeing so many spaniards preferring a brutal dictatorship to a messy left wing government but your comment remembered me that luckily there are also people in Spain willing to remember that Franco was not a national hero but a brutal dictator

[@esto_no_es_un_taladro]

@@Divano-qw2sb Yes! The second republic, like everything else, had its good things and its bad things. However, incredible advances were achieved in it such as women's suffrage, the literacy of many children and adults, the transmission of culture to the rural world, the strengthening of public health, paid vacations, thousands of peasants received land of their own... It is also not only what it was but also what it could have been if it had not been overthrown by the nationalists (who were literally fascists).

[@Divano-qw2sb]

@@esto_no_es_un_taladro The problem with these people is that they literally prefer a fascist dicatorship to a left wing government. I understand that you are right wing but come on? Literal fascists? Also amny of them claim to support Franco because "at least he fought for the christian values unlike those atheist commies of the republic" as if Jesus would have supported mass murders in his name

[@antonchristian873]

Very informative, and not merely a black and white issue as I always imagined it was ie not goodies v baddies.

[@YelFlux]

You are so right rarely the world problem are black and white there always the question of perspective.

[@RebeccaOre]

There's another KZbin video that came to a similar conclusion. Franco and Salazar in Portugal were both sane dictators compared to Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin.

[@RebeccaOre]

The closer anyone gets to real, day to day, events, the less anything issue is black vs. white.

[@antonchristian873]

@@RebeccaOre Thanks for that Rebecca ! I am really interested in the history of Portugal in particular. I am not Portuguese but regard that as my adopted country.

[@youcantpredictthat]

What do you mean? The guy was a literal muderer and a cruel dictator for God's sake.

[@iainbanks7415]

I was in Spain in the early 1980's and the people in smaller towns and villages would not talk about Franco, the older people remember and they were still afraid of him.

[@CheemstheBoomer]

Mentira soy español y Franco es recordado como un héroe, Arriba España!🇪🇸

[@estebancorral5151]

@@CheemstheBoomerdemasiado Rioja o Jerez!!!!!

[@asturiasceltic3183]

Franco is hated in the North of Spain.

[@iainbanks7415]

@@asturiasceltic3183I was mainly up in the Basque area of northern Spain, in the early 1980's for a few years and I lived in a small fishing village and what a wonderful, proud, friendly and kind people but still a lot of painful memories especially the older widows.

[@asturiasceltic3183]

@@iainbanks7415 Asturias, Galicia. Cantabria, Basqueland, half of Navarre and all of Catalonia. We all hate Franco

[@yarrowwitch]

A great-uncle of mine's injuries sustained during the Spanish Civil War meant he wasn't fit to serve in WW2.

[@limhan3209]

Spain didnt fight in WW2 anyway

[@squeakdragon9689]

The Pact of Forgetting sounds like something a few countries like mine desperately need. Stop using the past to justify being horrible to eachother in the present.

[@luiszuluaga6575]

Even so, isn’t it possible disparities may still exist between parties?

[@barrymayson2492]

I think rather than forget the past it should be remembered but forgiven, otherwise we repeat the same mistakes.

[@RebeccaOre]

Nobody has all the answers and anyone who claims that there is only one proper way to organize a culture tends to be quicker to demonize the opposition.

[@desertrose414]

I had a friend who lived in Spain for a while and she said that the majority of the Spanish people she met had a very negative view of Franco. She told stories of people she met who were taken from their families by the Catholic church as children and never reunited because their parents were killed for no reason. She actually worked as a tour guide and she said there were places they went where they were still discovering mass graves of people he had murdered. It is good that he changed a bit in his later years, but it certainly does not undo the earlier atrocities.

[@asturiasceltic3183]

We hate his a----

[@basedkaiser5352]

Stop lying 😂

[@rapace6183]

Lol a friend that heard, from someone about somebody klkkkk what a lie

[@redadmiralofvalyria867]

​@@basedkaiser5352 He literally did kill people, lgbtq+ people were one of MANY brutalized by his regime

[@pablorobles6810]

Franco avoided Spain fall under the communism. Search a little bit before say stupidities

[@christophercole8114]

History is never as easy as we try to make it out to be. With how Europe in particular was left at the end of WWII, having a stable government was more like a luxury. Franco, it appears, was different in that he seemed like a hesitant dictator. He comes across to me, in this piece, as someone who was trying to restore Spain to its former self, not some mythologized version of its former self. Whereas you could say Hitler and Mussolini acted in their own best interest, I think at the heart of Franco was to see Spain restored. This doesn't absolve him of crimes or anything like that, but I think it gives them more context.

[@davidwoods8181]

I agree. He’s an extremist conservative rather than trying to create a brand new society from the ashes of the old like Hitler and Mussolini

[@E-s.thoughts]

Indeed, he cannot be compared to Hitler, perhaps a little to Mussolini, but Franco was much more level-headed in the power he usurped. Yet I do not wish such a dictator on anyone, for he was indeed a dictator in the purest sense. The conductor of anti-communist, anti-democratic, anti-liberal and fanatical Roman Catholic Falangism. No, as far as I am concerned, Franco does not deserve respect and it is almost a historic duty to call him dictator forever! Some consider him a fascist, others do not. However one chooses to define him, he was without a doubt a conservative, nationalist and - especially in the early part of his reign - very repressive and ruthless dictator!

[@TheTwentySecondDegree]

precisely

[@carlospargamendez7012]

His autachique economics ruined Spain until 1959, his repression was terrible in policy, society, culture. His crimes were terribles.

[@RebeccaOre]

@@carlospargamendez7012, one problem the Republic had were far leftists deciding that they needed the revolution of their dreams now. THE SPANISH COCK{IT by Franz Borkenau, pointed out that anarchists were killing not just absentee authoritarian landlords, but the Spanish equivalent of kulaks (successful farmers who worked along side their workers). The Russians had some memories of where that led -- famine. Orwell, like a lot of combat soldiers, was very close emotionally to those he's shared battles with. Franz Borkenau was more the intelligent outside observer with a deeper understanding of European history.

[@markgallagher8129]

It's hard to understand how humans can commit such evil to other humans. The cruelty is endless. Sad

[@MR-nl8xr]

Waow, this made you think that??? May you never hear the History of the Native Americas; China, and Africa then!

[@nggagroyper83]

​@@MR-nl8xrexactly

[@wavell14]

probably because the video skips 20 years of history preceding Franco's ruse

[@BridgeportIPA]

​@@MR-nl8xrThe history of Native Americans was brutal long before the White man arrived.

[@Huskerguy316]

Read the Talmud and then maybe you’ll rethink just how cruel humans can be. “If the goyim knew what we teach of them they would kill us openly”

[@richardthomas4471]

Brilliant and even handed presentation, thanks.

[@TranscendianIntendor]

In the Norton Anthology of war the Spanish Civil war was described as war by firing squad. What I know of Spain is limited. Seems like it was a theocratic dictatorship.

[@oscarvayo7098]

it was

[@bobdollaz3391]

The catalyst for the Spanish Civil War was the Massacres of Priests and nuns by Communist, socialist, and anarchist

[@edwinsalau150]

Versus Soviet Communes! One with clergy, and one with out! Difficult to calibrate a moral compass when you are in a dilemma such as this!

[@davidmiller4078]

One of the most rewarding books about the Spanish Civil War has to be George Orwells Homage to Catolina written after he escaped from Stalins secret police by a whisker His observations and comments about far right and far left Totalitarian dogmas are very relevvant today check it out if you havent already

[@RebeccaOre]

@@oscarvayo7098, it was a mess on both sides. See “The Spanish Cockpit.”

[@PyroSoldat]

Even though I don't agree with extreme nationalism or the suppression of Spanish dialects. Franco seems to have saved Spain at every turn possible and even used the villains of WW2 to his own means, which is quite ballsy. Overall even if he did end up killing people, seems to me it's the lesser evils than a socialist/communist government . In Soviet Russia, the socialist wiped out half of the population and killed off the monarchy, and look how Russian has major problems with every aspect of society from corruption to the sadly trained "frat-like" military.

[@TrucyWrightFan2008]

I have to agree.

[@fqras]

Pretty much all European countries easily gave up the Jews. I’m not surprised Franco considered it.

[@asturiasceltic3183]

Considered??? He flat out did it and gave Himler a list of all jews in Spain.

[@lakshmankarunaratne3541]

Good insight. Well presented.

[@majorphenom1]

Thanks for sharing 🙏🏾

[@benzapata5645]

He saved Spain from chaos and Dave the country a future

[@GuonMr]

Mussolini should of been like Franco, stay neutral during WWII. But to appease Hitler Mussolini could of been like Franco & send his Apini & Bersagliere troops to fight in Russia.

[@p6v665]

mussolini shouldnt have been a fascist

[@bread4014]

I personally dislike him for all the things he did such as: Concentration camps, forced labour camps, mass graves, torture of political oposnents etc. But at the same time I dont hate him because at the end of the day he: saved us from a stalin-esque communist society, alligned with the west, helped Spain develop, crime was low and so was drug consumption etc. Id say he was a great dictator when compared to most dictators but at the end of the day all dictators have to commit horrible acts to stay in power.

[@theodoros9428]

In 60s Frankp made a proposal to Israel to recognized it as a state ,but they refused because they did not want to cooporate with fasist regimes

[@deadpilled2942]

Franco's Spain was also very influential on Arab nationalist movements. I'd feel uneasy if I was Israel. They were surrounded by them

[@asturiasceltic3183]

Smart Isrealites. They knew Franco had a role in the holocaust by giving Himler a list of all Jews in Spain for the "final solution." Hitler was Franco's ally and Franco was still aiding him with supplies and access to Spain during WWII..Hypocrite..

[@panzerfk0626]

self hating jews, as always

[@tlcmc6451]

I can't blame Israel for that. Franco clung to deranged conspiracy theories about Jews and that made him untrustworthy at best.

[@flyingcloud2677]

My mother is britsh and father is french, I was born in Spain and let me tell you that this man was what the country needed at that point in time, and it might be what it needs once again considering how things are going tbh

[@asturiasceltic3183]

LMAO

[@AntonEsteveGualofficial]

Its insane how some of these comments try to justify and glorify Franco. As someone who has grown up in Spain, its sad how common it is for people to glorify him.

[@denisbu7055]

reestablishing democracy,as the King of Spain, after the death of the Leader of Spain, speaks more than politics could ever imagine

[@tomasgray6441]

Im spanish, grow up under the regime, no situation needs a monster to rule any country under any situation, a murderer should never rule any body, period.

[@wilhelm8344]

Spain is much safer now? Not as much crime I'm guessing? Much more national unity?😂

[@ribertfranhanreagen9821]

I think you mean genocide or massacre. Technically any country leader will give out order that kill someone

[@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356]

but spain is now run by socialist vermin

[@fishnchips727]

@@wilhelm8344freedom is sweater than all of those above

[@jddd12]

@@fishnchips727 "freedom"

[@NormalChannel95]

Aw damn, I thought he was just the funny spanish man from Hoi4 who really liked civil wars and wars and death and ruling with an iron fist... ok nvm it makes sense.

[@theonemrtom101]

Right wing dictator, hmm, can't remember people using The phrase "left wing dictator" when they mention Stalin, Mao or any North Korean leaders, maybe we should.

[@RebeccaOre]

It’s also possible to have a centralist dictator.

[@napatora]

lol because they usually say communist dictator? more people are familiar with those dictators and their alignment anyway so it doesn't need to be said. many americans don't even know spain had a dictator for so long

[@jpmtlhead39]

Those 35.000 visas in Bordeaux( actually in total were abaut 40.000)given to jewish people fleing the Nazis from france,were given by the Portuguese Consul in Bordeaux Aristides de Sousa Mendes,and not by the Spanish consul or other Spanish diplomat. Just this little,Big remark.

[@madamepampadour]

Both were giving visas, they were working together. Please check your info. Both are Righteous Among the Nations. What is true is that the Portuguese dictatorship openly condemned Nazi's anti-semitism and openly fostered the reception of Jewish refugees, which the Spanish dictatorship didn't.

[@WILLIAM1690WALES]

A big positive about Franco if that’s possible and I think it is, he kept them out of World War II and not siding with Nazi Germany and also unlike some recent Spanish governments didn’t threaten Gibraltar

[@sombodythatyouusedtoknow9046]

It was for the best that Franco won because the thought of Nazis conquering and murdering my people isn't very nice (unless they were catalonians, spanish stuff don't bother understanding,unless you are from the former Yugoslavian coutries,in that case you would know the desire to kill your nightbour or the fuck it's spelled) because the Soviets were balls deep inside the Republic and they might have turned them into a satellite state and that might have been enough justification for the Reich to invade

[@acougueiromatador]

To threaten a place where you and your cronies launder cash wouldn't be smart.

[@WILLIAM1690WALES]

@@acougueiromatador it’s called good business. It could be the Cayman Islands, the US Virgin Islands, the British Virgin Islands and the Channel Islands however haven’t been to Gib they employ thousands of Spaniards who come across the runway every day for work and they have no problem with Gib being in control by the British and being a tax haven.

[@carlospargamendez7012]

Because Hitler didn't want him to enter in the war, first, and in 1941, Hitler didn't want to break with Vichy to give Morocco to Franco.

[@WILLIAM1690WALES]

@@carlospargamendez7012 some History Lessons France had been defeated and counted for nothing Vichy government Nothing, Hitler always wanted as many countries as he could to join him in his axis regime. Italy, Hungary, Romania, and of course, Japan

[@mynock250]

Your downplaying his connections to Hitler and the Nazi party, the biggest airlift of troops in history to that date was the movement of Francos troops by Nazi Germanys air force. Also the fact the Naxi troops were on spanish land, helping franco

[@asturiasceltic3183]

And Franco helped the Nazis during WWII. He allowed them to have banks in Spain, sent them manpower and supplies, and allowed them to spy on Allied forces in Gibraltar. Plus, sent a list of all jews in Spain to Himler for "final solution."

[@BridgeportIPA]

​@@asturiasceltic3183So you're saying he was a pragmatist.

[@fidei829]

Of course they helped Franco because he fought communism. What should they have done? Wait for Spain to become red?

[@hirschlord341]

Thats why never one man should have to much power .

[@314Show]

He saved Spain from comunism, period.

[@real9267]

Communism would save Spain from Franco

[@KieferRahmen447]

agree on that one. arriba espana!

[@SVRSK]

He wasn't perfect by any means, but that was the best way out we had, the Republic was incredibly unstable and we would've been in way more poverty if we kept being a Republic during the second world war since no doubt the Germans would have invaded us and once again Spain would be in flames

[@lalsacienroyaliste6104]

Vive Franco ! 🇪🇦

[@AntonEsteveGualofficial]

That doesnt give him any right to do what he did after the war. All of the executions, the political prisoners, the banning of basque and catalan, the censorship, repression...

[@888ssss]

franco made a law banning all pigeons from spain, which were allowed back in 1978.

[@rebeccalundberg6153]

Thank you for yet another informative video ❤

[@wagsthedogwhistle5939]

Every look into the uss liberty

[@horaciolongbottom2556]

A good commy is a dead one.

[@echohunter4199]

What happened in Spain during their little revolution was planned to happen in France once Spain was firmly in the grip of the communists. The Bolsheviks were infiltrating every aspect of Western European countries since they took over Russia and Spain was their first major conquest so they pushed in weapons of all types to win the conflict. Without the help of Germany and a couple other small countries, Spain would have a different history than we know of today. I’m just a retired US Army Infantryman and war is something the average person can’t imagine, it’s ruthless and to win, one has to make a choice, fight or die. So when they say the Spanish Army was brutal, there’s only one way to deal with infiltrators/communists otherwise it’ll come back to bite you later. If they kept the captured in Spanish prisons, they’d eventually be let out and then they’d just start doing what they did before and slowly erode the country from within until it’s fractured and weak making it ripe for an armed conflict or a simple coup. So what would you do? I know what I’d do if I were Franco.

[@demsrchildabusers7959]

Someone gets it! Thank you!

[@arindambanerjee3326]

You are American killer imperial army,so communism is the enemy for you

[@charlesperez75]

He just didn’t want to get nuked

[@stevoplex]

What was happening in Portugal during this time?

[@virtualworldsbyloff]

We stayed Neutral, we sold canned food and volframium to the Nazis but helped the Alies in many ways also... Portugal has always been a Country without a real Vertebral Spine, like today sucking EUs tits...

[@curt8652]

Salazar

[@ladymacbethofmtensk896]

Salazar was an interesting character. Indeed, at the start of World War II, he actually wrote to Britain's newly elected Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill, to inform him that Portugal would honour her centuries-old alliance with Britain, but, Salazar wrote, Portugal would probably be more useful to Britain if she remained neutral. Salazar actually cited the threat of Spain joining the Axis as one of the possible consequences of Portugal joining the Allies.

[@xispaster]

The 'Red Terror' and the Spanish Civil War: Revolutionary Violence in Madrid This book deals with one of most controversial issues of the Spanish Civil War (1936-9): the 'Red Terror'. Approximately 50,000 Spaniards were extrajudicially executed in Republican Spain following the failure of the military rebellion in July 1936. This mass killing of 'fascists' seriously undermined attempts by the legally constituted Republican government to present itself in foreign quarters as fighting a war for democracy. This study, based on a wealth of scholarship and archival sources, challenges the common view that executions were the work of criminal or anarchist 'uncontrollables'. Its focus is on Madrid, which witnessed at least 8,000 executions in 1936. It shows that the terror was organized and was carried out with the complicity of the police, and argues that terror was seen as integral to the antifascist war effort. Indeed, the elimination of the internal enemy - the 'Fifth Column' - was regarded as important as the war on the front line.

[@JuanRomero-pr5tk]

Viva Cristo Rey y arriba España!!

[@marydelosrios175]

Franco más que un dictador fue un gran gobernante que amo a España y la evitó caer en manos de un regimen stalinista. Las medidas politicas que tomo bajo su jefatura del estado fueron exitosas y los impuestos eran inexistentes sin : iva,IRPF, ibi,, contribuciones . Asi consiguió convertir a España en la octava potencia mundial. Pasados los primeros sños de penurias y hambre tras la guerra . Llego decadas de prosperidad social y económica . Las noticias eran siempre de celebración de inauguracion de plantas industriales, de empresas . Una escasa deuda pública ,equilibrio de la balanza comercial . La libertad y la alegria de vivir se notaba en la sociedad te podias crear una familia, tener hijos , comprarte una vivienda,un coche ,la juventud tenia futuro. Historiadores e investigadores mencionan que la sociedad vivia en una inestable convivencia durante la segunda Republica con conflictos en muchas regiones por :separaristas, anarquistas ,socialistas . la rebelión de los mineros en asturias .,. un clima de tensión que el presidente de la republica no controlo los politicos socialistas llegaron a amenazar de muerte al opositor en el Congreso y de esa inestabilidad ,hordas de muchedumbres exaltadas quemaban conventos,destruian iglesias y se perdió mucho arte religioso, los asaltos de anarquistas , la inseguridad en las calles , asesinatos a religiosos, persecución a los cristianos, todo a diario, Fue un detonante el asesinato de Calvo Sotelo lider de la oposición . Franco llegó a la peninsula para poner orden . Indalecio Prieto huyó a Méjico , Largo Caballero a Francia y no con las manos vacias , cuanta corrupción y tropelias trajeron. Se vivio bajo su gobierno muchos años de paz y prosperidad economica de la sociedad . En sus apariciones en publico era recibido con vitores de muestras de cariño por la multitud como se aprecia en sus visitas a ciudades donde inauguraba pantanos , hospitales,viviendas para obreros. Las empresas españolas que se crearon en los distintos sectores economicos : iberia ,telefonica,iberdrola ,,pegaso, seat, hoteles,paradores nacionales.altos hornos,astilleros ... Los socialistas y comunistas que querian para España un regimen como el de la unión sovietica que sembraron el terror con genocidios como el de Paracuellos ,la represión en campos de concentración y las checas. Fue el gobierno de la Republica de largo Caballero traidor a España quien puso en manos del regimen de Stalin las reservas del oro del Banco de España.🤦🏼

[@jbisntme]

He was just another human being that softened with time . Could have been much worse.

[@kyle-october]

He literally killed thousands of people 💀

[@asturiasceltic3183]

Pedro Almodovar, Spain's most famous director, had nightly nightmares about him until Franco died and those nightmares vanished. Women had no equal rights along with the poor. Cultures were almost obliterated and you had to be careful what you did and say and to who just like Orwell wrote in 1984. Orwell fought for the Republic and was inspired by the Spanish Civil War in all his works from 1936-on. You could not critique Franco, the Church nor say the bus was late.

[@rohan7224]

@@kyle-october the commies also killed thousands of people

[@ZDagenaisquebecnationaliste]

@@kyle-octoberless than the republicans

[@AntonioPeralesdelHierro]

You know nothing about it.

[@donstobbe6569]

Coming to a neighborhood near you

[@filthee1]

We can only hope.

[@metta6516]

i appreaciate that you tried to pronounce everything. Arriba España.

[@MR-nl8xr]

Arriba Espana para los Africanos que llegan sus playas con prepotencia, JAJAJAJAJA!

[@metta6516]

@@MR-nl8xr Una tragedia humanitaria en todo su esplendor. Nada de lo que reírse. Es como reírse del holocausto. Arriba España precisamente por ser un país generoso, aunque nos cueste la vida. Como ya le costó a Cristo. Arriba España y Viva Cristo Rey.

[@rolloxra670]

What a weird dictator

[@vaultboya6253]

Not to undermine the atrocities, but his story got a little more heartwarming. At the beginning of his reign, he constantly teetered on extremist beliefs. But as he got older and wiser, he slowly pulled back from the fanatical stances. Over time becoming more of a leader or a guiding hand to his people rather than a cruel authoritarian dictor.

[@pozu1312]

Funny how Francisco Franco pronunciation sound so Italian wen you said it😂😂😂😂

[@hoselui]

22 minutes and 40 seconds of lies

[@bread4014]

You also forgot to mention that the country had less crime back then because nobody wanted to risk going to Francoist prison, nobody wanted to risk getting thrown into a room naked and having cold water thrown on you and then getting beaten so bad that you would have to go to the hospital. That said im not a big fan of this type of system because of the risk of punishing innocent people that were wrongfully convicted and because its a bit too inhumane imo. Spain isnt a dangerous country anyway

[@golagiswatchingyou2966]

Considering what he had to deal with and him willingly giving up power and being pragmatic in his rule, I would say he is probably one of the best dictators in human history. People in modern times who don't read a lot of history, have no idea how rare it actually is for a dictator to give up any power, let alone most of it. If you want to consider the alternative the republicans (communists) had to offer, see North Korea or the USSR. 100.000 to 200.000 deaths is a small price to pay for destroying communism in any country.

[@graccusbro2061]

this is one of the dumbest takes i have ever read in my whole life

[@RebeccaOre]

Salazar. Communism that's not under threat of invasion tends to stop sacrificing the economy to ideology. See Vietnam for an example. Nicaragua's Communist Party hates Ortega as much or more than the Chamorros do. The one Nicaraguan anarchist I've read on line really hates him even more and accuses him of being a puppet for the US and EU. Life is complicated, not black and white.

[@steves2664]

This documentary: Franco bad...Stalin good.

[@youknowme1475]

He did actually made Spain economically better with the Spanish miracle though, if a democratic republic can’t do that then it has serious issues

[@RuthJohnsonScouse]

Smoke and mirrors, based on the torture and murder of others and it was the same with N@zi Germany.

[@killmeasshole]

yea, because people dying of hunger is doing "economically" better

[@youknowme1475]

@@killmeasshole second republic was already a failure anyway, the country was already a political melting pot for different ideologies and it just so happened to be Francoists that happened to be the win that civil war, wouldn’t be any different if attacked with red terror or invaded by the Axis, he did actually make Spain more Christian again since 1492 so basically he gave faith and did his country a favor when it felt like god had left the country, bringing the monarchy back

[@JohnDoe-kg6gy]

In fact Franco SAVED Spain.

[@graccusbro2061]

ahahahaahahahhahaahahahah no he didnt. his only luck was that the Americans hated communism so much that they showered money on every fascist regime they stumbled upon

[@paurushbhatnagar8100]

Left & Right are mirror image

[@LilTounsii66]

VIVA FRANCO ARRIBA ESPAÑA

[@emperorofpluto]

Bravo. Easily the most objective analysis of Franco’s regime (and the causes of the civil war) on KZbin. Politically, Franco was inextricably tied to the Axis, but was privately appalled by both Hitler and Mussolini - the former a pagan, the latter an atheist. Opus Dei, the then nascent hardline Catholic extremist secret society, was created after the civil war and nurtured by Franco before playing an instrumental role in the oppression of his regime, - and it still exists to this day, having metastasised like a cancer to every country of the West. Franco also gave asylum to Argentinian dictator Juan Perón, who lived in Madrid after his exile.

[@batallasdeshorts4149]

Perón dictador? Jajaajaj

[@ladymacbethofmtensk896]

I can see how grey Franco was and how grey his legacy remains, but I would maintain that it would have been better if he had never risen to power in the first place. For that I blame the leftist Spanish Republicans for their utter contempt for minority rights and their unconstrained vision of an entirely new Spain, never mind that the country did not have the social infrastructure to support it. If the Republicans had been able to cooperate with the old clergy, landowners, and industrialists, they would have had a much better time of it. But they were arrogantly idealistic, like a government comprised entirely of Hillary Clintons, and their attitude cost them everything.

[@nickwatson5622]

Perfect solution for dealing with communists.

[@BernasLL]

Great video! Would be interesting if someone did a video of how Franco's actions still impact politics and minority language suppression today, though that's far too niche for this channel, I guess. Also interesting how you missed galician oppression, one of his most successful in actuality, as others are seemingly backfiring into doubling down on language and separatism, and galician is still dying at the hands of modern institutions. You missed, in his background, how Franco saw the final fragmentation of the spanish americas, which would shape how far he was willing to go to keep Spain intact. @8:13, that's a Panther, it's post civil war and so could never have been sent to Spain.

[@robertjohnson5838]

Guernica, in your own estimate, had a death toll in the hundreds (?!) during a war that, overall, once again, in your own estimate, cost a minimum of 100k deaths, maybe 200k. If the "hundreds" were 1000, this means 1% of the deaths were from the much-vaunted Guernica. And what of an absolute comparison of the 100k-200k Spanish Civil War deaths compared to 100k in the first ten minutes of Verdun, not to mention the death toll of WWII? And let's not forget that if the leftos in April 1931 demoted Franco to a minor post, then again after subverting a rightist victory in 1933 (the Canary Islands?!), and only AFTER leftos had subverted election after election for FIVE YEARS did Franco say "I'm done with them!" and start a coup. Pretty patient. Let's also not forget that a good portion of deaths in Spain were due to Communists slaughtering THEIR OWN ALLIES such as the Anarchists and Trotskyists, which made it easier for Franco to win (see The Book of Lists, I forget which volume).

[@NitroDubzzz]

Take your meds

[@jacksonreilly3441]

Franco was right. Communism must be crushed and destroyed.

[@RebeccaOre]

Read The Spanish Cockpit by Franz Borkenau. The Russians had suffered famines because of state stupidity about agriculture. They saw Spanish anarchists doing similar things to what they'd done.

[@alanfike]

The British lost around 20,000 soldiers, killed, on the first day of Verdun. The casualties weren't 100,000. Guernica was a bombing of a civilian town. Who in their right mind calls that a battle? Stop expecting people not to look up what you say and you won't sound like this.

[@robertjohnson5838]

@@RebeccaOre Nevertheless, in slaughtering the Anarchists and Trotskyists they helped Franco. WAY TO GO!!!! ROTFLMAO

[@Slayer12349]

He was a million times better then Mussolini and Hitler. He kept Spain stabalized after the collapse of the failing Second Republic. He brought the Spanish Miracle, which brought Spain's best economic status not since hundreds of years. He brought Spain as a literally and major developed country, since Spain was always behind the rest of Europe. Yes I won't deny he was a tyrannical leader, but he liberalized his reign later on. Finally he brought the monarchy back. I think Franco, and Pinochet are treated unfairly as yes they were tyrannical figures, but they brought their countries in the best conditions they had in years. Yes they were bloody, but they were a million times less bloody then the Communists. Spain would've fallen to Communism, since the Second Republic was weak and fragile. I take Franco anyday, and I will tell ya he's one of Spain's greatest leaders.

[@graccusbro2061]

if the bar is so fucking low that you only need to be better than Hitler and Mussolini to be considered good, then yes, he is probably good. however he was an absolute moron and a murderer

[@jacksonreilly3441]

@@graccusbro2061 Compared to the commies, he was a ministering angel.

[@tropics8407]

Whatever happened to that Spanish miracle ? How to get back there ?

[@RebeccaOre]

@@jacksonreilly3441 Tito? The problem may have been anarchists. Vietnam turned into something unexpected. Nicaragua has a mixed economy, and most of the attacks on Ortega and Somoza were from old oligarchic families who owned newspaper and wanted their own in power again.

[@jacksonreilly3441]

@@RebeccaOre Tito may have defied Stalin but he was still a red even if his regime was less restrictive. The bottom line is that communism doesn't work. Of course Marxists will tell you that true communism has not yet been tried. To this I say "Why not"? The silly bastards have been playing around with Marx's crackpot ideas for more than a century and they haven't yet figured it out? All they have managed to produce are famines, death camps, tyranny, economic failure and misery. Quite a record!

[@vchalls]

fed

[@urielpolak9949]

Thank you for pointing out were the “left” played its part in making this reality

[@vladtheinhaler8940]

Franco sounded pretty based in a lot of ways.

[@toiletvirusandcoronapaper271]

Knowing the horrors of Holdomor and the atrocities committed by the Spanish communists thankfully Franco won out.

[@misterdrez]

so pay pay pay to win

[@stevengibbins8350]

I very balanced coverage of Franco.

[@vikingdrengenspiders7875]

We see that he was a bad man who became better

[@charcolew]

If Franco "mellowed" in his later years, it was only because his system was so thoroughly embedded in the fabric of Spanish society. You could equally logically argue that the Catholic church "softened" its views on hellfire, damnation and blasphemy when it stopped burning heretics at the stake and threatening the likes of Galileo with torture.

[@batallasdeshorts4149]

La inquisición española fue la que quemó y persuigio menos personas. Investiga. Quienes quemaban brujas eran los protestantes

[@davidfosca1044]

The United States is heading in the same direction as many nations and empires throughout human fell into.

[@JohnDoe-kg6gy]

Exactly. It's a carbon copy of what happened in Spain. Franco was the ONLY answer to the abuse, violence and nonsense from the left.

[@jonesmorales-tu6kq]

The us is worst .

[@edwinsalau150]

We have in the United States, the Brandon/Biden crime family! A few monopolize, the left-wing media, and a few control, judges, and prosecutors! The social club also known as the stash House/nursing home/White House passes for a social club, the Borgata usage!

[@swagedelic]

@@edwinsalau150 BREAKING NEWS: Putin just assassinated two more of his closest allies. Stay tuned for who's next.

[@HolyDiver-dx6px]

@@edwinsalau150😂

[@JACK_DANIELS9]

A heroe for spain and example to follow for all the world

[@MoloIongo]

¡VIVA FRANCO! 🇻🇦✝️💪

[@jeremiahsupple7455]

Why do you consider this a “right wing” form of government as opposed to authoritarian or Despotic or a dictatorship.

[@PerrinAybara1619]

Based Franco ❤ Ave Cristus Rex ✝️

[@Divano-qw2sb]

A real christian should be able to recognise how a brutal dicator who committed horrendous atrocities doesn't have to be praised only because he said he was christian.

[@Lenny-pi2hq]

I think Franco was much more of a "not the leader you want, but the leader you need" type. Yes he killed and took vast amounts of power over spain, but it seems like from his view they were necessary steps in ensuring the survival and growth of Spain. Many think that his killing and tyranny is evidence enough that he was an evil dictator, but would you call a lion evil for killing to ensure its own survival?

[@prophez23]

Did you go to college to learn that nonsense? Or just come up with off the top of your head??.. 😂 Lions killing for survival and political parasites killing for power and control and enrichment is not even remotely the same thing.. . It's said "those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it" but I'd argue that some are doomed to repeat it because they are just too foolish to see any other way. Give a man a fish and he eats for a day but teach a man to fish and he eats for life but give him power and authority over others and he'll forever live as a monster..

[@trvst5938]

At no point was Franco the leader Spain needed or will ever need. Spain commit genocide against its own people. People refuse to talk about it. Fascism has no place in Spain and the threat will no be eradicated until the Catholic Church is stripped of its power. That is the only way they were able to carry out an inquisition in the 20th century. #Taxthechurches

[@graccusbro2061]

lol he overthrew a democratically elected government with vast popular support by means of a military coup, murdering thousands in the process to set up a reactionary theocratic monarchy that benefited only the elites and the catholic church.

[@jacksonreilly3441]

@@graccusbro2061 He crushed the commie scum. That is the important thing.

[@oscarvayo7098]

franco slaufghtered almost every basque galician valencian and catalan speakera the vast majority where the last ones, whom i belong, he was a tyrant

[@merlinwizard1000]

8th, 23 July 2023

[@kauankauan6138]

Viva El franco

[@kevinlopes1343]

Franco was a true hero, do not put lies on his name.

[@user-pq1kd5tz6y]

HAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH lopes

[@kevinlopes1343]

@@user-pq1kd5tz6y he fought against communism which is against the attributes and rights of man. Glad to educate you.

[@user-pq1kd5tz6y]

You are a joke lopes. The Second Republic were a parliamentary democrat party represented by multiple factions comprising of most Democrat Socialists. So you are saying FDR and most intellectuals like Hemingway and Orwell who supported the Republic were communists? There reforms had nothing to do with communism.

[@user-pq1kd5tz6y]

@@kevinlopes1343 Russia joined after the democratic Republican party won the elections in 1936. If you are talking about the small handful of communists in the Republic..they didn't have any seats in government and no governing power. The vast majority of the republic were democrat socialists who wanted a democracy and human rights the way the people of Spain elected fairly when they won the elections. The republic was made of many parties and factions like a democracy is and COMMUNISM only has one faction or party and that is communism.

[@kevinlopes1343]

@@user-pq1kd5tz6y that’s simply a lie, the vast majority of Spanish people hate communists, socialists, gays, feminists and other things that divide the community for no reason. Also the Spanish republic only had three parties, not many like you falsely claimed. Those who decided to defend Spain and die honorably instead of becoming miserable envious communists.

[@Braddha]

I lived in Spain in the late 60s and learned the hard way what the face of Fascism looks like... I remember how ordinary people would shrink in terror when Guardia Seville [ cops] would get on the bus with machine guns on their backs... People were still being disappeared." Nobody mentions how Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco ALL came out of the superstitious perversion of the Catholic church... The dark, violent madness that has come out of that institution is incalculable...

[@12345MrTomcat]

The Nazis were anti-catholic, and the church spoke out against Hitler and a lot of priests went to prison for it.

[@asturiasceltic3183]

@@12345MrTomcat The perverted Church sided with Hitler and Franco and are partially responsible for the Nazis rising in the 1930s-1940s. Even many progressive priests spoke out against what the Fascist priests were doing to the Republic.

[@panzerfk0626]

cringe franco killed no humans, the nun rapers dont deserve such tittle

[@shutup2751]

strange because spain experienced a tourist boom in the 1960's and 1970's, sounds like it was better policied back then compared to modern day liberal run spain

[@Braddha]

Other Jesuit alumnis include the Marquis de Saad

[@TheHistory1776]

Right or left, dictators cause pain,suffering and death to happen.

[@alfredosenalle9284]

True ,but those on the left are the worse. Look at Fidel Castro in Cuba , more than 60 years of dictatorial communism there.

[@user-pq1kd5tz6y]

@@alfredosenalle9284 Castro is not a Spaniard. Nor was the Spanish Civil War EVER about communism. You think you sound so smart but it's obvious to the more educated on this subject you are lost.

[@Based_Stuhlinger]

@@user-pq1kd5tz6y If it wasn't about communism then why did the anarchists and communists split with the republicans and cause their government to literally collapse prior to the nationalist victory?

[@wavell14]

"One thing that I am sure of, and which I can answer truthfully, is that whatever the contingencies that may arise here, wherever I am there will be no communism." RIP El Caudillo

[@s_hrndz0119]

¡Arriba Franco! 🇪🇸⛪️✝️

[@jidpen8661]

He sounds like nice guy to me Para mi el parece una Buena persona

[@jackrosario9990]

Jews were safe in Spain throughout WW2, and Franco never supported Hitler, Franco was anti communist and did send troops to the the Soviet union to fight against the Soviets, during WW2 Franco did help the allies where he could, that in the 1950's, president Eisenhower give him support.

[@asturiasceltic3183]

Franco sent a list of all jews in Spain to Himler for the final solution. Once he saw the allies were going to win WW2, he pretended to be pro-Jew after saying anti-semitic things at rallies and aiding the Nazis even during WW2... Franco had a vision of the "perfect Spaniard" like HItler had his vision of the "perfect German." Jews were not part of Franco's vision of the perfect Spaniard.

[@asturiasceltic3183]

The Civil War happened in 1936-1939, why would Eisenhower give Franco support if there is no war going on in the 50s? FDR actually supported and sent aid to the Republic during the 30s. FDR is considered one of the top three greatest USA presidents of all time on countless lists. Eisenhower is not.

[@jackrosario9990]

@@asturiasceltic3183 moron the COLD WAR!

[@jackrosario9990]

@@asturiasceltic3183 everyone was anti semitic that's not news, Jews in Spain were never sent to concentration camps!

[@asturiasceltic3183]

@@jackrosario9990 . Spain had nothing to do with Russia's politics nor was Russia interested in Spain's politics. They just wanted to stop Hitler and Mussolini during the Spanish Civil War. The Second Republic's reforms had nothing to do with communism..Russia was not in Spain anymore nor did they ever have any interest in having Spain as a satellite state. If Eisenhower didn't realize that no wonder he was never ranked as one of the top 3 presidents of all time like FDR who supported the Republic from the start.

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

Good done by lovely Spanish people for berries and forgot that horrible circumstances of Francisco Franco regime....when communism economic legend and its brilliant hype collapsed in 1991 and capitalism and its conservative alliances won 🏆 the competition ...all people said Franco was right...even The USA 🇺🇸 said he was a necessity Evil 😈 for Spain 🇪🇸...

[@asturiasceltic3183]

It's funny how no one gives you likes or a comment because you don't know what you are talking about concerning the Spanish Civil War.

[@RebeccaOre]

Best economies are mixed economies. They outperform book theory any day.

[@tenneluna6948]

The amount of fascists and whitewashing of history in this comment section of the regime's crimes is fucking disturbing. As a spaniard, i'm embarrassed and horrified. People throw a tantrum that the Japanese will not recognize their crimes, but happily clap like Franco was such a good man and leader.

[@bystanderbutch3509]

Franco pulled the wings off flies! He also punched and kicked dogs and cats.

[@benedictdonald4338]

Well, I kinda hate animals so I’d turn a blind eye to the kicking.

[@JohnDoe-kg6gy]

The left is worst... They are obsessed indoctrinating children as gays.

[@Communistsarentpeople]

He also drank water. You know what other evil people indulged in the hydrating liquid? Mao, Stalin, biden, zelensky, Lenin, Dahmer, Epstein.. the list of these evil fukers goes on and on

[@bellamcfaul8259]

@@benedictdonald4338 Weird thing to say but alright😐

[@majorberk4647]

@@benedictdonald4338its an autistic trait to inform people of what you don’t like and quite pointless

[@vladtheinhaler8940]

Franco's anti-communist views are one of the best thing about him.

[@asturiasceltic3183]

He was Anti-democracy and anti-human rights.

[@cantsay2205]

Exactly. Show me one good thing communism has ever done for people.

[@user-gd5dj2nj6c]

​@@asturiasceltic3183good

[@RebeccaOre]

He was also against things like labor unions and other religions than Catholic. The TV/Netflix series “El Ministerio del Tiempo” represents what it’s like to have to deal with extremists both right and left.

[@asturiasceltic3183]

@@RebeccaOre Just like Hitler, Franco had his vision of the "perfect Spaniard" (which was an obedient non-questioning Catholic) and that didn't include Jews or any other religion or non-believers.

[@wamblingnine27]

Franco Franco Franco!!

[@hugrow3901]

Outstanding video although you forgot to mention how exhuming his corpse led to covid in a weird the mummy style twist, please consider making a video regarding Marcos Perez Jimenez from Venezuela a Greta friend to Franco and a widely unrecognized dictator

[@AntonioPeralesdelHierro]

Franco had disgusting friends.

[@movingsocks579]

I was Francisco Franco, I have grown since then. However, I did a lot of good too and I left the country on a path toward democracy.

[@Seamus_Dolan]

thank.

[@movingsocks579]

@@Seamus_Dolan chu welcome