Franco - Spain's Nationalist Dictator Documentary

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[@PeopleProfiles]

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[@sabeerdahbiy6655]

abdelkarim alkhetabi vs franco +400.000 solder alaouit +france .- criminel de guerre + bombe chimique

[@rogfusionkid]

Have you thought about getting a human to narrate your videos? Those computer voices are so annoying! I'm only 4 minutes in and I've had enoough!

[@incumbentvinyl9291]

@hoodbridgeShakeproto *has

[@incumbentvinyl9291]

@@hotstepper887 ''LOL''

[@incumbentvinyl9291]

@@hotstepper887 And? ''LOL''

[@Sadistic-Pickle]

If Benito Mussolini had not joined Germany in WW2 he might have remained in power for a long time after like Franco.

[@PeopleProfiles]

Very possibly.

[@yeeterskeeter6356]

It is too bad indeed, Hitler really ruined Europe and ruined Fascism for many.

[@zerofukzgiven]

To he!! with mooseolini may he rest in PISS!!

[@MrYourentertainer]

@@yeeterskeeter6356 well, fascism was ruineous in itself, being the most evil and murderous ideology in existance. It was not ruined by Hitler, it was simply carried out by him.

[@yeeterskeeter6356]

@@MrYourentertainer Its weird that you say this, Im not quite sure you actually know much about history and fascism itself.

[@kg7287]

As a sophomore in high school in 1975, our Spanish language class took a two week trip to Spain. I remember feeling somewhat intimidated, wondering what it was going to be like visiting a dictatorship, and the culture shock we'd feel, coming from a republic with all of the freedoms and rights we enjoyed. The only "shock" we felt was how similar Spain seemed to America! Other than seeing all of the statues and billboards dedicated to Franco, it was nearly impossible for we American high school students to tell any difference at all between the two countries - that is until our final 4 or five days there when Franco lapsed into a coma. We could feel a lot of tension in the air, and I remember our chaperones hoping that he hung on to life until we were on our way home! That didn't happen. Franco died a couple of days before we were to fly out, and we were told to stay in our hotel rooms in case Juan Carlos' transition to power wasn't a peaceful one. By that time, we had traveled from Madrid, where we'd spent our first week, and were spending our final week in the tourist resort of Costa Del Sol, and while we heard of some problems in Madrid, they seemed a long way off, and we never experienced any problems leaving that beautiful country. But we did finally see a huge, very important difference between America and Spain. Although we still had a few years in front of us before we could exercise our right to vote, we learned, during that tedious transition of power, how dear it would be for us to be able to say who, through our vote, we want to run our country. Of course, that was a long time ago in America, when voting meant something.

[@Jimboken1]

Very well said and thanks for relating that story. I visited Madrid several times from 73’-75’ and similar memories. I was a few years junior to you. Madrid was a sophisticated capital city and very beautiful. The people socialised easily, were happy and very kind to this very young Irish lad!

[@kg7287]

@@Jimboken1 Thank you, and it's no wonder we clicked - I, too, was a young Irish lad (in ancestry, anyway), although now I guess I'd be an older Irish-American codger!

[@felixantoineclaudemoracami1723]

did you visit some slums or some prisons for political prisoners?

[@Jimboken1]

@@felixantoineclaudemoracami1723 Did you?

[@felixantoineclaudemoracami1723]

@@Jimboken1 my grand father was slauthered there, my uncle Teofilo stood ten years in jail without judgement in Toledo, my other uncle Isidro died in work prisoner camp in Cerro de los Angeles and my father flew to France from a prisoner camp. None of them were comunists, just republicans.

[@huliohuliohamijo]

50:39 I think Franco was a man who cared more for the well being and future of his country than for ideology. He was a patriot, a statesman and a pragmatist. Nationalism and catholicism, those where his values. But outside of that he didn't subscribe any ideology strongly. Or if he did personally, he didn't let it influence his rule. He joined whatever side he thought would be more beneficial for the future of Spain at any given time. He remained neutral in WWII because joining would have been bad for Spain. When it was clear that Germany would lose, he helped the allies, because it was the right move for Spain at that point. He did repress his opposition strongly, because he wanted to create union under what he believed to be the right values (again, catholicism and nationalism), in order to prevent a second civil war, and also to ensure what he believed to be the right course for the country. But once he thought he had achieved his goal, he relaxed the repression significantly, and devoted all of his time and effort to lifting the country.

[@huliohuliohamijo]

I would like to point out that this video didn't spend a lot of time discussing the atrocities committed by the republican side, which I think are relevant when we try to understand the actions of the nationalists, and Franco. In no historical conflict can you fully understand the actions of one side when you consider them separately from the actions of the other side.

[@lpaone01]

You are correct; there are no sides to take ---only the future to consider.

[@irajabaly]

For me the most important point is the national economy management by Franco .From a dying economy when he took the power , he made for Spain a strong sustainable economic growth, for decades and which ever lasted after his death untill the world crisis of 2008. What ever the man could be, his work in economy is very positive for the well being of Spain population , because Franco was also a pragmatic leader, who was intelligent enough to bring some main changes and adaptations for his country since the 1950's

[@sid1982able]

Fuck nationalism makes barriers among people and makes a war

[@weedlegaliser120]

@@sid1982able barriers were already there, mixing them up would just make a society non-cohesive and without social trust, moving the barriers makes a way for a nonfunctional society filled with crime and social tension.

[@mopes2713]

That’s some BS right there dude. That’s like justifying Mexican drug Cartels because the drug lords were very innovative when it comes to commerce and they boosted the Mexican economy. Evil is evil no matter how you try to justify it. It’s still evil.

[@weedlegaliser120]

@@mopes2713 I had a decent problem understanding what you wrote so let me translate this: you think that nationalism is like a criminal organisation which sacrfices its or neighbours population for economic boost.

[@mopes2713]

@@weedlegaliser120 it was an analogy dude. Interpret it however you like.👍

[@ethanramos4441]

“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.” Francisco Franco

[@optimvsprinceps1845]

Based

[@dalmarahmed8499]

@@optimvsprinceps1845 BASADO!! Wise words by General Franco 👌👌

[@thegoastofmccain5368]

Come on guys, you can oppose communism AND fascism.

[@putler965]

@@thegoastofmccain5368 Perhaps. But if you were in Spain at that time what options existed beyond fascists and anarchists/Marxists?

[@thegoastofmccain5368]

@@putler965 so Hemingway was a communist or an anarchist? The republic’s coalition was bigger than just the two ideologies

[@DJREALMADRID2K]

During the War Francisco Franco also ordered all his diplomats who were in Spanish embassies operating in both Nazi Germany & all Nazi occupied countries in Europe to issue Spanish passports to any Jewish person who came to the Spanish Embassy advising them he or she is Jewish. The Spanish passports given Spanish names posing as "Sefardí" Sephardic, descendants of Spanish Jews that were deported in 1492. It saved thousands of Jewish lives especially Greek & Hungarian Jews. During the Holocaust Jewish people with Spanish passports couldn't be detained or arrested by either that Gestapo or the SS as Spanish citizen. They were deported to Spain instead of being sent the death camps.

[@pepecscs3492]

During the war part of my family was kill by the republicans only for going to Mass. Every male 15 and older were killed. In a region not even at war. Ciudad Real. All the killing and revolution chaos during 1936 were the reason why the movement was successful. The remainders of them are buried in the valley of the fallen in n Madrid. Of my grandparents one was in the Republican side and the other one in the nationalist side. If the republicans would have won Sprain would have been a terrible communist regimen as it was Rumania. These were very complicated years!!! We were really lucky. God bless Spain, Churchill and the USA for their support.

[@Jimboken1]

The Valley of the Fallen was conceived by Franco as a national monument to the fallen of both sides in the Spanish Civil War, and the corpses of 36,000 of both sides are interred in underground vaults. Socialists and EU scum disinterred Franco’s corpse from Valley of the Fallen in an act of medieval vindictiveness to exorcise history. The Left were scum in the early 1930's in Spain and are even worse now with their fellow vicious lilliputians in Brussels

[@counterfan90]

My grandfather's family was killed by the nationalists because they voted left in the 1936 elections.

[@SandfordSmythe]

Actually, Stalin did not want the communist to win as much as he wanted Franco to lose. He did not want to annoy France and others as a possible allies.

[@marksuperkid1253]

That idea about a potential communist regime is a myth. There were 0 communists in the government the military coup was aimed against. 0 communists, 0 socialists and 0 (logically) anarchists. It was a purely anti-democratic coup. The very very small Spanish communist party was very well organized and managed to grow into the only serious military force fighting against the nationalists. Also thanks to the support of the only country willing to help, the Sovjet-Union.

[@gerrytyrrell1507]

Fighting the lefties today....Irelanda

[@dustinprewitt]

Id rather live in Francoist Spain than Stalinist Russia.

[@esmeephillips5888]

Or, later, Brezhnev's paralytic, Gorby's chaotic or Yeltsin's kleptocratic Russia. From the mid-Sixties until c. 2000, Spain was becoming a better and happier place while communism's homeland was spiraling into abject tragicomedy. At least the USSR escaped a civil war bloodbath when it dissolved.

[@dustinprewitt]

@@al3619 sure, commie....

[@esmeephillips5888]

@@al3619 It was not a fascist regime. Spain was not Italy. Source your quote about Franco saying 'at the very beginning' that he wished to 'kill half the citizens'. Where is this quoted in Preston, Thomas, de la Cierva, Beevor, Jackson, Payne etc? It sounds like the garbled transmuting into a threat of Franco's observation that one half of the country was the real Spain and the other 'anti-Espana'. Franco gave the Axis very little help in WW2. Even the Division Azul was primarily a device to get Munoz Grandes, a potential Falangist rival, off the scene. Civilian casualties were minimized by neutrality. If Spain had joined the conflict, probably more men of military age would have died than the tally of Republicans shot in 1939-47. BTW, Hugh Thomas investigated the numbers of executions and other Civil War related casualties and found that the stock early-1960s figure of 1 million was a 100% overestimate.

[@esmeephillips5888]

@@al3619 The strategic possibilities you outline for the early phase of WW2 would have been at least as likely if a communist-dominated Republic had fulfilled its obligations under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Your use of labels such as fascist and Nazi are inappropriate to Spain; further, those doctrines differed widely, so how could a 'fascist regime from 1936 to 1945' have undergone 'denazification'? The rhetoric Civil War figures employed was the language of ideology and international politics, but the course of events, as always, was determined by the specific historical legacy of one country; it cannot be understood by trafficking in tawdry and trite labels such as 'left wing' or 'reactionary'. The facts are too contradictory and too Spanish. Franco was an authoritarian. His lodestar was the imposition of good order. Beyond that he was open-minded and opportunistic. He took steps as early as 1942 to defuse any challenge to his authority based on admiration for the Axis by neutering Serrano Suner and imprisoning Hedilla. The fact that he still has admirers who shoot their mouths off proves nothing. I judge rulers by what they do, what they refrain from doing and the results. Talk is cheap. Winning one war, staying out of another, transforming an economy and laying the basis for a transition to a pluralist multiparty democracy counts for more with me than virtue-signaling and anachronistic sloganizing.

[@courierdiplo]

BOTH ARE THE SAME MY FRIEND, EXTREME RIGHT MEET WITH EXTREME LEFT.

[@dicktator8802]

"I would rather have three or four teeth pulled, than have another meeting with him" said Adolf Hitler,allegedly, (who, incidentally,really hated going to the dentist) after his 12 hour long discussions with Franco at Hendaye, near the French-Spanish border on October 23, 1940.

[@esmeephillips5888]

Hitler was a masochist who refused anesthetics at the dentist.

[@alexanderkarayannis6425]

@@pauleohl "Allegedly" said it...(It's not an exact science!...)

[@alexanderkarayannis6425]

@@esmeephillips5888 If he was a masochist, he would probably enjoy the pain and seek it more often...In fact he had atrocious oral hygiene and consequently health, which manifested itself with halitosis and according to his dentist and his assistant, numerous dental problems throughout his life. If having teeth pulled was a large part of that, I am sure his alleged statement on Franco was not a particularly flattering one, as he was another monolithic, stubborn, uncharismatic and authoritarian megalomaniac, that made the two of them in the room a huge crowd, too big to bear for both of them I am sure...

[@ananthu8534]

One of Hitler's general betrayed him . He convinced Franco not to join the axis . If Franco would have joined the axis Hitler could have blocked the Gibraltar cutting England off its Oil supplies and starve .

[@esmeephillips5888]

@@alexanderkarayannis6425 Hitler was 'uncharismatic', eh? There is ample testimony to Hitler's and Goebbels's exasperation about Franco's delaying tactics and equivocations. Serrano Suner, Franco's wife's brother in law and foreign minister, was a Falangist and Nazi admirer who favored an alliance (opposite of Ciano) so Hendaye was a disappointment. Neutral Sweden, by allowing rail transit to Narvik, helped the Third Reich more than friendly non-belligerent Spain. But Hitler's suspicions predated 1940. During the battles on the Ebro, he denounced Franco as a reactionary Catholic monarchist whose slow, attritional style of war was unappealing to the Blitzkrieg maestro. Hitler astonished his cronies by remarking 'Perhaps we backed the wrong side'. The Republicans had more fighting spirit, and like the German communists after 1933, many might easily come over to National Socialism. Hitler also approved of the Reds persecuting the Church; this was when he had begun a campaign against monastic orders and Catholic schools in Germany.

[@tishomingo4524]

I was in Spain in the early 1970's while Franco was still in power and there was no street crime. It was very safe. Today in Spain, this is not the case.

[@berzerker1100]

ARE YOU FROM OKLAHOMA ? Tishomingo ? Just curious 🤔 greetings !

[@bobwoods1302]

No street crime, just state crimes.

[@jorgemagalhaes6399]

And, wat is your fucking point with this stupid and fascist remark

[@mceltix2009]

@@jorgemagalhaes6399 Apparently, he thinks life was safer and more prosperous under fascism, as compared with modern day socialism. Your rebuttal?

[@jorgemagalhaes6399]

@@mceltix2009 , In the 1970´s , crime was much lower compared to today not only in Spain but al round the world, obvius? - the purpose of the message is to promotion of one criminal/fascist with absurd facts, he has no idea wat it is to live under a fascist regime, he should be ashamed

[@thomasrobinson7810]

Thank you. I graduated from an american high school on the us naval base at ROTA in 1961. I will always treasure my connection to Spain and it’s people. TR

[@zorrozorro9681]

thanks to the USA to finance dictatorships around the world right ?? AWFUL !! remember the Maine ?? ... to hell with the States !!

[@corgismclean]

"That cross (Cruz del Valle de los Caídos) is not my monument, my monument is the Spanish middle class that didn't exist when I started governing, is my legacy to future generations of Spaniards" Francisco Franco

[@marthashields430]

Thank you

[@berserker8716]

Amen

[@atatexan]

You did a very fine job describing Franco. It is honest balanced history. I think Franco deserves the fair analysis you provide. By the way your pronunciation of complex Spanish geography is flawless. Muy bien.

[@MaGuFer]

Not so fast, Charles. He mangled Franco's maternal surname by improperly saying Bajamonde for Bahamonde. The letter H is silent in Spanish. Also, the Commmunist president he called Azana is actually Azaña, he left out the tilde. Otherwise, his pronunciation of the C and Z in Spanish was quite correct.

[@jorgemagalhaes6399]

Franco deserves absolutely nothing, if you haved one idea wat is living onder the fascisme you re never written wat you wrote

[@jimmorrison2657]

@@jorgemagalhaes6399 You are right that Franco deserves nothing. He was a piece of shit, and nothing more. But the people do deserve a fair analysis on the subject. Then they can make their own conclusions about Franco, and his regime.

[@sodthelotayou3712]

Franco deserves no 'fair analysis', he was a murdering terrorist and carried on his muderous illegal coup until his death. He held back Spain by forty years.

[@fresatx]

Franco smashed the left with an iron first... He pisses yall off to this very day! 🤣🤣🤣

[@hernanifarias5356]

There is much information in this video that reflects what occurred during this time period in Spain However, no bio of Franco is complete when it does not even mention once, Portugal's role and Salazar role in shaping Franco's political and economic development.. 1.In fact it was Portugal and Salazar key support in early 1936 that allowed the nationalist to get a real foothold in Spain as without Portuguese Ports the nationalists had no entry point to get supplies from Italy and Germany. 2. it was Salazar's political support with Britain that allowed reproachment with France and Britain after the civil war. 3. it was Salazar policy of Iberian peace and non aggression ( the Iberian pact of 1940) that kept Spain from joining the Axis powers. 4. Salazar's and Franco's relationship cemented early Spanish economic rebuilding from 1945 to 1950s 5.it was Portugal's entry into NATO in 1949 that paved the way for Spain to rejoin the west. and in so doing allowed military co-operation between USA and Spain in 1955 until Spain joined NATO and the UN. 6. Equally important after some 4.5 decades of close Iberian cooperation, both countries entered the EEC which greatly cemented both countries as democratic nations in the mid 1980s. 7. Not mentioning this relationship, hides many facts of importance. such as the importance of each nation to each other. ie to this day Spain is still the biggest market for Portuguese goods and Portugal is the 3rd largest market for Spain after France and Germany. So with all this key information missing I find the video basically a Anglo centre view of glossing over history without in-depth knowledge of the real Franco, Spain and Iberian history The is no substitutes for real education and .truth in History. least we forget.

[@justthink5854]

anyone who wipes out his own people is no "NATIONALIST"

[@waleedirfan5045]

@@justthink5854 tell that to the disgusting republic and socialist's murdering and raping the church and those socialist fucktards

[@pedropinheiroaugusto3220]

Portugal's darkest page in History, forever in shame. In fact, Portugal was fundamental to almost 1 million dead in Spain, which was the real start of world war 2, with 50 million dead.

[@hernanifarias5356]

Total nonesense. Not one shred of proof or evidence of this.learn your history. Spainish civil war dead had nothing to do with portugese involvement. Spain would have killed that many if by rifles or sticks and stones. Clearly your replies are more based in politics and your view than facts. This is why iy drives me nuts when ignorance is proposed as fact on the net . There is not substitute for real facts and historical evidence.

[@barahona68]

I agree with you, the role of Portugal's politics and iberian cooperation should not be forgotten. Had Portugal had a left party in power for a long period and Spain would have had to deal with a neighbouring enemy. And at the time Portugal still had much political weight due to its large colonial empire that lasted till 1974, while Spain had lost its already half a century before.

[@AlguienDeAzeroth]

Now we have a dictator named Pedro Sánchez. I'm waiting for the video.

[@albertocruzado2899]

As a Spaniards an someone who study history for passion, it is irritating to me when someone call Franco a fascist dictator. It is such a simplification, but everyone does because it is easy. Or politically convenient if you are into Spanish politics. Nationalistic is a far more accurate description of what Franco really was. So again, thanks.

[@esmeephillips5888]

Jose Antonio and his little band admired and tried to imitate Mussolini, but after his death the Falange never became dominant in the Nationalist coalition. After the Civil War it attempted a kind of proletarian pronunciamiento, which was easily crushed. Its leader, Hedilla, narrowly escaped execution.

[@stephenheath8465]

He was more a Nationalist than a Fascist

[@stoggafllik]

“Anything that I don’t like is Fascism”

[@marcgarrigosmane166]

Franco before ww2 was basically a nazi

[@bryanfreeman437]

The government before ANC in South Africa was Nationalist, and allowed itself to be removed via election. The reason Fascism describes Franco better is because he was an autocrat. And Fascism is a good mode of government IMO. Hitler just ruined it.

[@pauloakwood9208]

Franco may well have been the product of Spanish history, particularly that of the 19th and early 20th centuries. But Franco's image seems to depend entirely on which decade and global perspectives are in the background. The Soviets hated him and demanded he be overthrown in the late 40s. In the 1950s the West saw him as a bastion against communism. In the 60s and 70s Franco was seen as the leader of a turbo charged economy, and a mecca for European tourism. So who was he really? Was he an opportunist or was he the hard medicine the country needed to end its stagnation and prevent Spain from devolving into the nightmare of endless factional fighting and separatist wars? Can the price that was paid for that prosperity be justified? We may never know. All we can postulate is what would Spain be like today had he never existed? And it may just be that without Franco, Spain would have become the Balkans of the western Med. Or worse still, the middle east of Europe.

[@davewebb2936]

He overthrew a democratically elected government and slaughtered anyone who opposed him! He only won because of the help he got from the nazis. Need I say more!!!

[@pauloakwood9208]

@@davewebb2936 It was indeed a military coup. An insurrection. The elections were won by social democrats, but they were quickly swept away by more radical elements, who in turn fell on each other. The Communist may well have killed more Anarchist than they did Falangist. It was a horrible civil war made doubly worse by the interventions of Nazi Germany and Communist Russia. The slaughter was dreadful. My point was that Franco, like most historical figures are often judged by the context of current events. In the 40s he was a pariah. In the 50s a stalwart against communism. In the 60s an economic genius. And in the 70s, and old man in charge of a tourist mecca. But who was the real Franco? Will we ever know?

[@flynn659]

@@davewebb2936 The Nationalists didn't just win by support of a single nation. The Republicans had the support of the USSR and Mexico and they still lost. Other factors were involved in the Nationalists victory such as their ideological cohesion, as the Popular Front was literally formed to combat Lerroux's government and were filled with Communist, Socialist, Anarchist and other left-leaning moderates who had different end goals.

[@davewebb2936]

@Andre Hpunkt So are you saying that Franco was a good guy who just happened to like slaughtering women and children?

[@davewebb2936]

@@flynn659 Were the Russians and Mexicans fighting in Spain like the nazis? I don't think so! Why do you love the fascists so much? Did your dad or grandad fight for the nazis in the last war or did they fight against them? If they fought against them then he must have been ANTIFA and would probably disown you.

[@francistubolino8810]

My mom who is 90 now here in the US, was born in Madrid in 1931and experienced the bombs as a child there.

[@albertocruzado2899]

A curiosity. The Rif war reached an end in the landings of Alhucemas. The Spanish looked at the British disaster in organization during the landings on Gallipoli, and nailed the landing of Alhucemas, coordinating the different branches of the army. It is said by historians that Eisenhower studied Alhucemas as a successful example of what he had to do in a greater level in Normandy. Franco, still coronel, personally directed his forces in the beach on the front. He received a gun shoot, but as one of his superiors used to say about him, he had "Baraka" or luck in Moroccan. So it is said he only lost one of his nuts between his legs but came alive of the experience.

[@oasisv2899]

Yeah against 5000 riffians, who were 4 years ago shepherds and farmers, with the French's help, what an achievement!

[@albertocruzado2899]

@@oasisv2899 Indeed. The achievement was so great, the british empire could not pull it off in Gallipoli, where they failed pathetically against..... what was it? Farmers you said? With french help too. It is a good thing that actually competent people could make it work at the end.

[@stuross8190]

It is usually only mentioned among serving British Forces , but British soldiers often rate French and Spanish forces very highly. I heard of this many years ago and also recently in Ukraine.

[@staringgasmask]

@@oasisv2899 Yeah, you're completely right, they were farmers. And so were the Afghans, yet they have survived against three superpowers.

[@mariaamparoromerovicent955]

​@@stuross8190Como se dice en España,De la tierra y el arado sale el buen soldado.....

[@TR5T]

I lived in Spain during Franco, show of affection in public was frowned upon. Where the Guardia Civil was stationed they were discouraged from befriending locals as it could skew their loyalty to the state so they were moved every 3 months. Beautiful country especially Andalucia.

[@conveyor2]

Frowned upon? Much like Japan to this day.

[@wolfthequarrelsome504]

Look what public shows of affection has now become.

[@Getcakedieyoung23]

There’s not much about him on KZbin so I’m thankful for this upload

[@aarondemiri486]

Always interesting to learn about Spanish history greatly appreciated

[@Lxz3]

We lived better with Franco. That’s the truth. The only problem could be freedom of expression contrary to the regime, but Spain was a prosperous country, Spaniards had jobs, they could afford to have many children, a home, a car or more than one, and apartments or second houses in other places such as on the beach. There was a lot of security, people left the doors of their houses open. Franco built 4 million social housing units in just 14 years and Spaniards could pay for them in just 8-10 years, not like now when we need a lifetime to pay. And much more…

[@LilLingLing6789]

Utter nonsense

[@LilLingLing6789]

Maybe move to Britain they'll like you better there

[@bowieupland6112]

My grandfather always tells me how great and safe Spain was during Franco. All of Europe, is a degenerate cesspool now.

[@danielc1241]

Your grandfather, no offense to him, only says that because that was his own personal case. 114000 Spaniards disappeared during the war and throughout the francoist dictatorship. It was not “great”, calling it great is an insult and just plain sad.

[@bowieupland6112]

@@danielc1241 Those were not Spaniards, nor human beings. They were filthy Marxists Communists, who would have done much worse evil if they got the chance; like they did in Bolshevik Russia, Mao's China, Cambodia, Fidel's Cuba, etc etc. No offense.

[@deenagara9151]

Please do one on Franco's Hungarian counterpart, Miklos Horthy!

[@danicornea]

Or Bela Kuhn....why not bring all negative personalities back to life!?

[@brunneng38]

@@danicornea How dare someone have interests different than yours, right?

[@danicornea]

@@brunneng38 Indeed, how dare I to have my own oppinion, right!?

[@brunneng38]

@@danicornea Indeed! How dare you try to shit on someone else’s request then pretend to be the victim.

[@utkarshchoudhary3870]

Ohhh thats a good suggestion Hes one mysterious figure.

[@apocfaildotorg]

You should do one on the leader of the Portuguese Estado Novo leader. He’s pretty similar to Franco

[@yeeterskeeter6356]

I have messaged them on Patreon and recommended they make a video on Antonio Salazar

[@TheJimboslav]

Never heard of him. It would be welcome!

[@danicornea]

Same breed Salazar...

[@bryanluis9445]

The virgin lol

[@wonjubhoy]

Salazar wasn't bloodthirsty like Franco. Salazar was also an economic genius. Portugal under Salazar pursued a pro-allied foreign policy during world war 2. Franco supported the axis powers. There were big differences. Unusually for a dictator Salazar didn't spend an escudo on himself.

[@wr1120]

Franco is still a sensitive topic in Spain. A few years ago I visited the alcazár in Toledo that serves as a military museum. The few rooms that deal with the civil war could just as well have been empty and painted white, there was nothing there that was even remotely interesting regarding that war or Franco himself.

[@adolfovecinopons5070]

Y así debe ser

[@FerutElCampeador]

​@@adolfovecinopons5070 la historia es lo que ha pasado. Ver lo que fue nos hace pensar en cómo evitarlo. Borrarlo es abrir la puerta a una repetición.

[@SuperMnunez]

That’s what communists do.

[@gmaent1]

Great documentary. I was stationed at Torrejon Air Base in Spain when the three Generals tried to take over the government of Spain. Depending on where you go in Spain will depend on how your question will be answered, about Franco. As for me, I love Spain and all its history. It is a beautiful country with a richness that intoxicates. Great presentation. Thank you

[@williamhsmith4019]

you missed the part where he killed everyone who he didn't agree with. but good economy so fine

[@johnmurphy7674]

@@williamhsmith4019 So? Republicans did the same.

[@luisangelgonzalezmunoz7071]

@@williamhsmith4019 Actually that is not true. He killed mostly comunists and anarchists. I don´t miss any of them.

[@emilioperez6888]

@@williamhsmith4019 There are many people nowadays that do not agree with Franco, and lived through Franco’s regime.

[@curtislowe4577]

@@emilioperez6888 that there are many people is clear evidence Franco decided enough's enough and let tens of thousands live. Had Franco been even a weak version of Stalin or Hitler he would have not closed the last camp in '47 but would have doubled down. To Franco it was more important that Spain's economy should recover rather than hunting down the last person that provided any support for the Republi-communist-icans.

[@Genjuanpa]

He was very pragmática and had that simple intelligence of Who things are meant to develop, without any of the stupidities ideologies put in people minds. One thing everybody Who ley him reckons: He somewhat inmediately inspired a lot if respect. It was un the air. His morrocan soldiers in Africa testified that he had "baraka".

[@sandfly]

That was an excellent analysis of the life and impact of Franco. He hasn't had a good reputation what with his connection to Hitler and Mussolini but I've long felt that he was a patriot concerned about the trajectory his country was taking. In fact, I consider him to be a concerned man facing a similar existential situation much as we do today in the West. The Spanish found a man who used whatever was at his disposal to rectify things without ever becoming a supreme egotist and tyrant. In my opinion, we need someone just like him right now.

[@mdiciaccio87]

So stealing children from their families, murdering political opponents, summary executions after show trials and concentration camps run by the catholic church.... none of these constitutes tyranical behaviour? Are you OK?

[@malvarez8484]

You’re 100% right socialists communists or as they’re called today progressives tend to be the real tyrants. If you don’t fight them step for step they’ll make you a slave of the state without batting an eye

[@OkaniJMCA]

How can Franco be condemned for "crimes" like Guernica while we regard Allied bombing of enemy civilian populations in WW2, of far, far greater magnitude, as justified or celebrated??

[@xispaster]

......Hiroshima,Nagasaki.

[@henrygingold6549]

What a stupid comment. Allied bombing was a response to NAZI aggression AND bombing of civilians. Franco was a self-obsessed monster who treated his OWN citizens like dish rags. His death was celebrated in my home and my only regret that it was not long and painful. Quema en el infierno jefe!

[@xmaniac99]

@@henrygingold6549 You are part of the one rule for you and the one rule for the rest crowd.

[@blingabiaino197]

Dumb comment.

[@blingabiaino197]

@@xmaniac99 Please. You're just another biased person who doesn't know what they're talking about.

[@JDFloyd]

I moved to the US Navy Base in Rota, Spain on Sep 9th 1975, and witnessed the change in Spain over the next 3-years. There was a bit of uncertainty from the time of Franco's death, until early 1976. However, I will say that Spain was a very stable, and safe place to be during my 3-years there, and I attribute that to Franco's prior leadership.

[@begshallots]

North Korea has no street crime.

[@phillipsmiley5930]

@@begshallots The Politburo and Generals own all the crime, same in China.

[@JackJoker94]

Military peeps and men always find a way to romanticize Fascism.. Spoiler soldier, it wasn't stability and safety, it was trauma and fear..

[@SillyUwUBilly]

​@@begshallots Source ?

[@auried4631]

The oficial ones. The First comment was made by a privileged, a militar from USA. could you consider it as a good source? No it’s a personal perception from a privileged person.

[@TexanAmiga]

I really enjoyed this video! I’ve read what I thought was a lot about Franco. I even remember hearing on the news that he had died and also remember the antics of Etta. Anyway, I didn’t know as much as I thought. I learned a lot! Thank y’all for all the work you do and for sharing with us!

[@zorrozorro9681]

this is white washing the Anglo-american involvement in the COUP and then the dictatorship !! ... how can they do not use the word COUP and democratically elected Republican government ?? England was the first ally of Franco !! and the USA the last one, financing him in exchange of the Naval Base of Rota !! AWFUL !!!

[@miguelblanco3484]

He was the first General in Europe and in the World, ho fought aginst Comunist,socialist,anarchist and won, thas why people hate him so much and thats why you only hear propaganda aginst Franco.

[@gonefishing167]

Really interesting take on Franco. Much more balanced than others. Sounds that, at heart, he was always a Monarchist - just my opinion 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@PeopleProfiles]

He was a dictator who had people killed, but was a pragmatist. He adapted, Hitler and Mussolini didn't and were destroyed. As Stanley Kubrick once said to someone. "You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot." Pragmatism always wins.

[@DustyVisorMotorcycles]

Agree with your words there GF, Hard times required a hard man, and it was he that saved Spain in the long run. Could you imagine where Spain would be now under the CNT??? Another basket case like Venezuela, except worse.......

[@amraceway]

@@DustyVisorMotorcycles Hardly. Venezuela crashed because they dared to defy the USA and regain control of their oil.

[@DustyVisorMotorcycles]

@@amraceway You can believe in a single commodity economy if you want to mate. Peace.

[@amraceway]

​@@DustyVisorMotorcycles Don't use oil? Electric bikes forever?

[@numbersix100]

He was smart enough to keep Spain out of ww2

[@jorgemagalhaes6399]

No, it was not smart in fact it was very stupid

[@endloesung_der_braunen_frage]

@@jorgemagalhaes6399 how so? Spain was in No condition to Fight in 1939

[@boredboiseboy]

Kind of hard to fight a war when you just got done killing most of the men able to fight😑

[@martiemc8398]

Spain was used as Hitler’s try out for some of his war machines.

[@1967bigjohnny]

Viva Franco

[@marthashields430]

I also wanted to say that the reason the civil war started in Spain was because atrocities had already begun on the side of the republicans. This included the burning of churches and the murder of clergy. If Spain had been peaceful, Franco would have had no reason to lead the nationalist troops into the mainland. Also, whenever Franco is discussed, it is rare that the atrocities of the republicans are discussed. Guernica is mentioned in your documentary, but Paracuellos is not. This occurred outside of Madrid during the early siege of the city. It was estimated that between 3-5000 civilians were murdered by the republicans. Around that time, my mother was living in Madrid as a housekeeper to a prominent family. It was told to me that 4 nuns and 5 priests were in hiding there. And then one day they never came back. Little known but true, Franco gave asylum to Jews, many of them came through the Pyranies. His ambassador to Hungary, Angel Sanz- Briz is credited for saving 5200 Jews living their by providing Spanish passports. No documentary seems to mention these things. I don't understand why Franco had his thumb down as he reigned, on the other hand I do. The country had just lost millions of people. The democracy had not worked. Who wanted a constant struggle and more widespread blood shed. That's exactly what would have happened. I was 12 when Franco died. Life had been pretty good there. But our biggest mistake was joining the EU. But that's a story for another day. thank you for letting me share.

[@XOPOIIIO]

Economic success was moved by the fact that Franco was suppressing economic development by autarky policy the first part of his rule, so once he lifted his own prohibitions, economy started to grow.

[@appalachian420grower5]

Adhd and an interest in history will have you dropping all priorities for an hour to watch this ❤

[@DJREALMADRID2K]

At that time Francisco Franco at the age of 33 was the 2nd youngest General in Europe since Napoléon Bonaparte who was made a General at the age of 24. 9 year difference between the two.

[@paulscottfilms]

A completely impressive analysis indeed. As Charles Cleaver states below "You did a very fine job describing Franco. It is honest balanced history."" Well worth getting organized for patronage to Peoples Profiles

[@zaphonjackson]

Please do one on Faustin 1er or Soulouque the Haitian president

[@michelleeden2272]

He mentions Guernica as a horrible war crime, but not the communists raping nuns and crucifying priests. Franco was brutal because the communists were EVIL. No balance whatsoever.

[@kungfumind.]

I'd like to see your take on Rafael Trujillo, Dominican dictator who ruled the Dominican Republic for 30 years until his assassination in 1961.

[@rbilleaud]

What a nightmare that was. Here's a country that could have become a tourist paradise and they messed it all up.

[@JoseGarcia-xf5gk]

@DOJA FOX Nah he was more similar to Stalin

[@javiergarcia-ue9wm]

Rafael Trujillo, Fidel Castro , Francois Duvalier (papa doc) All of them despicable dictators of banana countries.

[@jonrettich4579]

Humanities enigmas can’t be better represented. Really solid, honest presentation. Thank you. Interesting to realize Picasso’s professional life was a very clear counter point to Franco’s and both of their fathers held some positions of authority and were disliked by their sons

[@joeyfotofr]

The difference is that Picasso's work will be admired as long as western civilization survives, while Franco will only be admired by fascists. Although we all must respect the fact that he was both wise and clever enough not to join the Axis in WW II, even after Hitler helped him win the Spanish Civil War, that he started.

[@zorrozorro9681]

Honest ??? ha ha haaaa full of rubbish .... where is the English support that gave to Franco in the COUP ?? heard it right ?? COUP COUP ?? and where is the USA financing the dictatorship in return to get Rota Naval Base ?? the USA has supported more dictatorship around the world that any other country !! AWFUL !!!

[@robertcremin3291]

@@joeyfotofr after recovering from a civil war, spain was in no shape to join another

[@europaprimum7050]

​@@joeyfotofrFranco will be admired by anyone who desires an orderly, healthy, and Christian civilization that actually has tradition. He's not even a fascist.

[@TasukuMuncha]

@@joeyfotofr I mean, some will remember him as a fascist, but lately I have seen so many comments on him being the ''necessary evil'' more than something actually harmful for Spain, basically the outcome of his dictatorship was Spain being one of the largest economies in the world and a transition into democracy. Most dictatorships in history ends in a very worse way, like other civil war, a (successful) coup and other dictators taking the power, poverty...

[@wvulture]

I'd love to hear you talk about, perhaps, the most controversial man of Argentina, Juan Perón. He had ties with Franco as far as I'm concerned

[@fortunekookimon4610]

Also Pinochet 🇨🇱, he was at Franco's funeral. Alfredo Stroessner too 🇵🇾, he was another Latin American dictator I'd like to learn more about.

[@esmeephillips5888]

Peron was more of a fascist, certainly a bigger fan of the 'shirtless' Mussolini, than Franco was. Eva's role was the twist: it was without parallel among the pre-war European dictatorships, and like the contributions of Madame Mao and Chiang Kai-Shek's 'Madame' can be interpreted as an inchoate acknowledgment that women must play a bigger part in modern societies.

[@xispaster]

@@fortunekookimon4610 And with Castro

[@fortunekookimon4610]

@@xispaster Fun fact: Castro died on November 25, Pinochet's birthday.

[@cristhianramirez6939]

Perón was an strange fascist, he sympathized with Fidel Castro and wrote letters to Mao

[@mosesmanaka8109]

I am addicted to your documentaries which are detailed yet concise and you always get your pronunciations correct. Well done 🙂👊👊👍

[@ATH439]

Question: Why do English histories of the Spanish Civil War always leave out the unbelievable atrocities committed by the Republican side, especially the bloody persecution of Catholic priests and religious? Very strange to leave that out as it is not an insignificant detail.

[@johnathanmay9143]

The Catholic Church apologized for their monstrocities they did in the Spanish Civil War and washed their hands of Franco and allowed for his exhumation

[@counterfan90]

The destruction of churches and persecution of catholics wasn't encouraged by the Republican authorities.

[@InHerHonor]

Because of wig history & the fact that the English and Germans are materialists and protestants by inclination, thus do not care about priests or religious or the Catholic Church/Crown. On this, moderates usually sympathize with commies.

[@fabrizioruffo1799]

Because a great many of them were leftists during the later Franco years and became sympathetic to the republican lost cause ideal which was fairly popular among the intelligencia. Its the same with Salazar of Portugal since both dictators were able to lead their countries to relative prosperity and die of natural causes there is an enormous amount of resentment since there legacy is not one of mass murder like Hitler but rather of competent governance which their beloved leftist succesor governments have been unable to achieve.

[@c.w.simpsonproductions1230]

I've always found it fascinating how Juan Carlos willingly gave up power. He could have easily continued in Franco's stead as a dictator, but instead he willingly relinquished much of his power and turned Spain into a democracy, even with the military opposing him. As history's shown, the majority of monarchs that gave up power were forced to. But he put the greater food over himself. Or he was smart enough to see that the monarchy likely wouldn't have lasted long as an absolute monarch.

[@marc21091]

King Juan Carlos intended to move Spain to a parliamentary democracy. His father who was excluded from the succession by laws passed in Franco's time was a liberal (which was why Franco sought to have the son take the throne on his own death). Juan Carlos enabled Spain to follow the course that his father would have wished, though he never said that. How fast Spain moved to parliamentary democracy was then not in the King's control, but it was the most desirable outcome. By 1975-77 there was democracy over the whole of Western Europe; including Portugal (following the peaceful 1974 'Carnation Revolution') and Greece - where the Colonels had been toppled and democracy restored in 1974. So Spain post-Franco was set for democracy, and it was the King's skill that made Spain a constiutional monarchy instead of a republic like France (which was the alternative).

[@higherresolution4490]

@@marc21091 You have great knowledge of this period of Spanish history. Thanks for taking the time to write down your commentary.

[@marthashields430]

My mother was from Madrid. I was 12 years old when Francisco Franco died. I remember life there being peaceful and calm and secure. Franco had a tall order to try and unite Spain after the civil war, and I have heard that there was bloodshed on the Francoists side to do so in eliminating enemies. But I know that life was much improved- my grandmother and grandfather attested to this. And it continues to break my heart to see the country being run into the ground by the leadership we have had in the past several years. And part of their rhetoric is to criticize and lie about Franco. his body was even exhumed by the current government in an effort to vilify him. It has tuned my stomach to witness. I love Spain. And it was better then than it is now by far, I can assure you; it is an amazing country despite those who govern it. Viva España!!!

[@fredb2022]

Thank you to our host. Aprendí mucho. Masterfully done.

[@henryabadi3497]

I give credit, no matter what it is said about him of being Hitler ally but he refused to return Jewish refugees who escaped the Nazis in France. He thought that has Jewish ancestory .

[@carlosmorell7071]

Gernika was a disaster, but Dresde and Hiroshima were real war crimes. The Civil war prevented Stalin fro taking Spain. The Elections in 1936 were a putsch by the Frente Popular, this has been definitely proved recently. During the Republican period political corruption and anarchism dominated Spain. At its last moment, a real revolution was taken place by the CNT anarchists, the also anarchist FAI, and the communists. That’s why so many people supported the Nationalists. Anglo-Xaxon analysts are always partial and ridiculously naive. This is to hide their own monstrous policies all around the world. They destroy what they touch. The British with their Victorian dreams and the Americans with their Hollywood policies. Ceuta and Melilla have been part of Spain for 500 years and Gibraltar is now the British Colonial Empire. Frankly, Ridiculous.

[@carlosmorell7071]

@@asturiasceltic3183 la República en 1936 estaba completamente corrompida. Largo Caballero, La Pasionaria o Durruti no eran precisamente demócratas. Yo, amigo, no defiendo el Franquismo. La Democracia debe ser fuerte para evitar que el autoritarismo tiente a la población y tenga acceso al poder. Quizá tu defiendes las quemas de conventos, violaciones de monjas y asesinatos de curas. Yo no. O quizá te atraiga el hecho de que la CNT y la FAI tuvieran Barcelona en sus manos a golpe de pistola. Tal vez Paracuellos sea para ti solo un anécdota y Carrillo un santo. Para mi, no. Desde la Revolución de Asturias en 1934, España entra en un proceso Revolucionario que culmina en 1936. Deberías leer el libro de Abel Paz “LA GUERRA DE ESPAÑA-PARADIGMA DE UNA REVOLUCION, LAS 30 HORAS DE BARCELONA (JULIO DEL 36). El hecho de que las Brigadas Internacionales estuvieran llenas de Románticos como Orwell no es prueba de las bondades de la República. Con respecto a Stalin, veo que eres muy naive. Acuérdate de como se quedó media Europa después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Deberías leer un poco más y sin prejuicios si quieres entender la Historia.

[@carlosmorell7071]

@Asturias Celtic Ignorante. Escribo como quiero. Si tanto sabes de españa deberías hablar Español. People can read my stupid ideas or my stupidities, but stupidity can’t be read.

[@carlosmorell7071]

@@asturiasceltic3183 i guessed that as an expert you would speak Spanish and would have read serious bibliography. But your narrow and poor knowledge about the topic proves I was wrong in that.i don’t write for you, I do it out of respect of those whose Spanish is better than their English. Is impossible to understand Spain without knowing, as you, its wonderful language. My friend, i was running in front of Franco’s Grises, police, probably before you were born. And in the other side a brother of my grandfather was assassinated by the republicans just because he was a priest. Tortured and his nuts cut off just because of his beliefs. I can imagine you holding a torch and burning some convents in MY country. Please don’t talk about what you don’t know and could never ever understand. When I took my PHD at Oxford University, the first thing I learnt was that manners makes men. By the way, social democrats didn’t exist in Spain in 1936. Have you even heard of Largo Caballero, the Spanish Lenin? Have you heard of El Terror Rojo? Have you even know who and how was Stalin? There is a very interesting biography about him written by another holy man called Trotsky. Please, read, if you need help, I will recommend you a few books with different points of views.

[@davidsegovia3692]

Very odd that the narrator states the Falangistas were fascist. One of Fascism’s primary credos is socialism. The falangistas believed in free market capitalism.

[@MarielenaGuate]

The narrator is excellent. I am impresed by his respect for the correct pronunciation of Spanish names. Saddened to hear the story. So much hate and cruelty in the name of principles!

[@raytaaffe6588]

'HE' is probably a robot.

[@trabajodisciplinacrecimien8230]

el bombardeo Madrid con pan y libro a España del comunismo y la judeomasoneria que a dia de hoy se ha apoderado de nuestro país,era un enemigo mucho más fuerte el solo retraso lo inevitable,ejemplos de paises vencidos por la judeomasoneria:Inglaterra 1694,Francia 1789,el imperio Otomano 1908,Estados Unidos 1913,Imperio Ruso 1917,Unidad del mundo musulman 1922(caida del Último sultan,1924 último califa),Italia 1945,Alemania 1945,Territorio de Palestina 1948,China 1949,España 1973,Iraq 2003,Libia 2011...Pronto el 100% del mundo sera suyo.

[@EWS-F]

Thank you for the video. It would have been interesting to mention the roles football clubs Real Madrid and Barcelona had during Franco’s rule.

[@gerardle8230]

What? Are you some kind of goof? Maybe they should also have told us how the fishing was in the local rivers during Franco's rule. You nut.

[@EWS-F]

@@gerardle8230 it’s evident that you are not educated on the role of association football in the history of Spain. That role is not as trivial as the weather during Franco’s rule. I may be a nut but not on this topic.

[@gerardle8230]

You are correct I am not educated in this area but as a historian and lover of history your comment had nothing to do with the biography being discussed. It would not have added any insight into Franco. One must edit and though an area of interest to you not at all important on the topic being discussed. Peace

[@EWS-F]

@@gerardle8230 Real Madrid is perhaps the most successful and famous club football team in history. The rivalry between RM and Barcelona that is today started in the early 1970’s when at the time the best footballer in the world was Johan Cruyff. He could have played for any team in the world but he chose to go play for Barcelona. At the time he refused to play for a team associated with Franco (No doubt Franco was a staunch RM supporter).That endeared him to the Catalonian people who have fought to be independent. Because of him, the rivalry between these teams has been what it is today.

[@gerardle8230]

@@EWS-F Thank you for the info but absolutely no need to include this in this video. For fans like you but to the general historical audience in my opinion and yes,( I also am a nut at times) this would not even be worthy of a footnote when discussing the relevance of Franco and who he was to history.

[@steventhorson4487]

The Guernica incident was a miscalculation on the part of the condor legion; the crew testified to this. Also, the Italian air crews had specific written orders to not attack civilian targets.

[@PowerPlay1]

Thank you for this Documentary. So much has been said here, and indeed commented on enough to warrant me not adding to it much. However as one who has traveled throughout Spain many times over, and who has many friends there, I can tell you that even today the Spanish Civil War and it's aftermath still divides and affects the people of this great country, where you can find animosity in many villages and towns, even in the same families or from as close as the opposite side of the street. All credit must go to the people of Spain, for how far they have come in recent years. Viva España!

[@joeyfotofr]

Yes, but as in America & Italy, the Spanish fascists are coming back.

[@zorrozorro9681]

is called COUP ?? got it ?? COUP against and democratically elected government that England helped to win the Civil war by helping their forces to reach main land Spain and boycotting payments going to the Republican side !! Anglo-American white washing rubbish !! so why an Ultra-nationalist dictator gave a foreign force a pice of soil, called Rota Naval Base ?? ha ha haaaaaa

[@jeffreykalb9752]

Franco really saved the Allies in WW2. Hitler demanded that Franco let him cross through Spain to take Gibraltar, thereby cutting off England's supply of oil through the Suez canal. It would have meant the end of England and the British Empire. Franco basically told Hitler that he would have to fight his way across Spain. Hitler was visibly upset. Nobody ever before had treated him in negotiations like that.

[@genepatrickvi8377]

Franco knew his napoleonnic history for sure..

[@damienchall8297]

spain would have starved to death if they had of sided with the allies and the allies still would have won the war in the long term

[@minepgamer5133]

Yeah, but he also gifted Hitler the tungsten needed to make anti-tank munition, gave his intelligence agents full protection and provided every service imaginable to their boats and submarines

[@angeldelalamo]

In fact, there was a Hitler's general ho persiaded him not to cross on Spain, wich would be easy. This general was neckhanged on a piano string. Hurra for him.

[@chiron6699]

Churchill warned him if he helped the Germans take Gibraltar Britain would have invaded the canaries. He was pragmatic stayed nuetral

[@jonathanedwards983]

If you love your country, running it is not easy. FFS Franco had to cope with extremists of all kinds. Thanks to this video, seems clear to me that he steered his country from the bad to the good. Whaddya want him to do? Not saying I like "atrocities" but who said this stuff was easy?

[@fritzbasset8645]

Franco made two wise decisions: 1. Staying out of WWII, which doomed his compatriots/financiers Hitler and Mussolini and 2. Turning Spain back over to the Bourbon monarchy upon his passing which allowed it to democratize, although that was not his intention. Events could have been much worse, say like those of the eastern bloc countries, which still seem to struggle.

[@malinstella6965]

You must remember one woman's extremist is another woman's freedom fighter.

[@sodthelotayou3712]

Idiotic pointless useless response

[@NunyaBizznaz]

This is brilliant, and deserves many more views.

[@franciscofranco5739]

Thank you

[@jazzaman147]

Franciso Franco Has always been and intrest to me This was a man even though Germany helped him out in the Spanish Civil war He remained Neutral during World War 2 Concentrating on building Spain up No Matter what alot of people think I admire Him I love the channel and And your telling of the History thank The People Profiles

[@adolfovecinopons5070]

Y encima tendrás derecho a voto, haber si desapareceis pronto, los que amáis las dictaduras, de izquierda y de derechas

[@malvarez8484]

Franco didn’t like Hitler, he thought Hitler was crazy. he used Hitler for war supplies and then ghosted him after the war 😂

[@salovila5328]

Don´t forget he only took communist, socialist and gays to concentration camps and only executed about 100 thousand people after the war. Pretty nice dictator if you ask me. BTW Spain was not really neutral during WWII, Franco pull it off with great style. German U boats made port all over Spain to re-supply goods and fuel. The Blue Division is one of Francos great accomplishments and every year they are honored by the Francisco Franco Foundation. You should come and check it out. Swastikas and the Spanish Nationalist flag hanging together, as they should!

[@blanesvintage9050]

The opposite of the coin, if Franco loses the civil war, was an Spanish Soviet Republic. That's what the extreme left politicians were looking for. Look who send help to the republican side. Stalin. And that kind of policy never be able to increase the economy and prepare the country to a peaceful transition of powers.

[@jamesvelina6704]

An accurate well-balanced view of the Franco's dictatorship in Spain from 1939-75, while still reminding all of the abuses of it, and appreciating its successes like the Milagro Español economic development of the 1950's to 1970's. I am from the Philippines and I hope you will feature our own dictator, the late Ferdinand E. Marcos who served as President of our country from 1965-86. Thank you.

[@joedias7946]

Not many people know that Philippines is named after a Spanish king Philip. Oh dear

[@philipburkinshaw5608]

I enjoyed this video and just want to add some of experiences in Spain. As young boy my family began taking holidays in a small town in Catalonia in the late '50s. Over the years we made many friends among the locals and were invited to their homes for tapas, meals, drinks and suchlike. Whenever the conversation turned to politics voices were lowered to a whisper: "Walls have ears" was the explanation. The Guardia Civil strutted about the place; one evening when I was about 10 years old I was walking with my cousin through the town square. We were stopped by one of them who wanted to know why two young boys were wandering around unaccompanied. I explained in my rudimentary spanish that I knew the place well, that I had been coming there for many years, etc. At some point the guy realized that I was the younger brother of one of his son's friends! Then smiles broke out and we were treated to vivid descriptions of how the police dealt with tourists who were behaving badly, usually with their batons! Another time I met the same cop on a one way street and as we were talking a car came down the street going the wrong way. He jumped into the street and began to gesticulate but then quickly jumped back onto the pavement and saluted as the car went past. "That was the son of the chief of police", he explained! One thing I saw that convinced me that things were changing in the early '70s was seeing a copy of Playboy in the window of a newsagents.

[@amhenotepakkardius5504]

Franco by hindsight was one who loved his country and wished to preserve its cultural identity at a huge cost.However he was also a product of a brutal age when Europe was reeling under the horrific ideological confusion and conflict of the time precipitated by utopian ideologies that had been in the making since the Renaissance. The most salutary thing is that he changed over time providing security and stability to a troubled nation . At least kept the horror of communism out! (Today we know what Communism ready was and what it did to millions of people in the last century. The Gulags, the massacres the man made famines and the war , plus fostering of civil wars and dictatorships in the third world and so on , not that the west also was responsible) Spain sufferred greatly indeed but survived to see better days.

[@MarkWestonX]

Really like this narrator ... gets my vote for future videos 👏🏼

[@PeopleProfiles]

He will be our main narrator from now on.

[@richardboote2370]

And not too much horrible 'music' in the background! Yipeeee!

[@saardfetner8620]

Franco was being used by the Jesuits and Vatican. It was planned and fixed. All roads lead to Rome. Papacy.

[@BULL.173]

History sometimes has a bad habit of mythologizing events like the Spanish Civil War. The separatist factions were not the squeaky clean freedom fighters as some would have us believe. Anarchists, Communists, Socialists...they were every bit as brutal as Franco. When they weren't fighting government troops they were fighting each other. Spain would have been splintered into a dozen pieces and Moscow would have been the puppet master. Franco kept the country unified, prosperous, and fervently anti communist. Whether or not he was a nice guy is, well, who cares?

[@peterashby-saracen3681]

There were terrible atrocities committed by both sides. I recommend an excellent book on this subject: "The Spanish Holocaust" by the historian Paul Preston.

[@cristhianramirez6939]

The communists were murdering nuns in Spain before his ascent. Franco did the right in stomping those cockroaches.

[@jordanjames5479]

Thankyou for all your hard work, and very well spoken too, i hope you have alot more in the pipe line as well, i got fascinated when i was young reading Orwell, after reading Homage to Catalonia i think George might have shot this person.

[@juandiego4417]

Oh, my God! This documentary seems to have been made by a Franco's Spanish admirer. It's a shame!

[@joeyfotofr]

George Orwell was a great writer and political thinker, but he was too close to events on the ground in Spain to see some of the machinations that directed events.

[@blanesvintage9050]

Then you know that Orwell must to runaway from Cataluña because the Communist crimes. He came to help against fascism, and his own partners wanted to kill another left wings. Comunist Party, Socialist Party, left syndicates or the POUM Party where fighting between them.

[@cadiencanaille4387]

Franco and the nationalist committed atrocities but so did the leftists. Neither side can be excused for their crimes. Let’s hope that Spain has learned its lessons and remains a peaceful nation.

[@dreamdiction]

Why was there no Nuremberg Tribunal for Communism ?

[@Jimboken1]

@@dreamdiction Because Stalin killed more of his troops than Hitler had and Stalin had finally stopped supporting Hitler when they were inconveniently invaded by their erstwhile ally.

[@mugishagabriel6074]

Franco might just be one of the greatest diplomats of all time.

[@dariusaasin5580]

First of all I want to say thank you for making such a great documentary about a person whom I didn't knew much. Very in depth analysis and nearly all the aspects were discussed. I personally think that if General Franco didn't took the measures which were essential for that period, Spain would have been plunged into darkness like Balkan countries which are still economically not that rich. The credit of current Spain goes to prince who took the wise decision of parliamentary politics which keep Spain intact, otherwise the fate of Spain wouldn't be different than Yugoslavia. Great work, and a humble request kindly make documentary on Marshall Tito. Thanks in advance

[@klausdebes4744]

Maybe one of the most balanced biographies of Franco. The political and historical diversion on his person became obvious, when his corpse was removed from the Valle de los Caidos in late 2019. There are still lots of open wounds, unanswered questions, and still many supporters until today in Spain.

[@towaritch]

I stayed for long periods in Spain as a kid in 1962 ,1966, 1974 and 1975 and I have only good things to say about life in Spain back then. You absolutely didn't have the impression to be in a dictatorship contrary to Eastern Europe back then .

[@marcosoliversanchez8298]

@@towaritch you got it right. Lots of people miss the safe beautiful place Spain was back then, getting spoiled fastest with globalism and mass immigration

[@eldorta]

@@marcosoliversanchez8298 amén.

[@thornil2231]

@@towaritch because you were a fascist...

[@tedpikul1]

Like the episode on Lenin, this is extraordinarily informative and admirably even-handed.

[@luiscondeblazquez8518]

Great documentary with neutral analysis! And I confirm it as Spanish historian

[@Darrylizer1]

I remember being stopped by the Spanish police, all carrying machine guns, when in the northern part of Spain near the Basque territory in the early 2000s. They opened up our van and saw our guitars as we were a touring rock band and said "Ahh, musicians!". They were all smiles after that and let us go without further hassle.

[@esmeephillips5888]

It is noteworthy that democratic governments since 1975 have failed to fix separatism. Franco tried centralization and uniformity. Later regionalization and concessions to Basques and Catalans became the fashion. But ETA continued its guerilla campaigns well into the new era and Catalonia is more disaffected and closer to secession than since the 1936-38 heyday.

[@Darrylizer1]

@@esmeephillips5888 Yes, what is the solution? Let them secede? Put it to a vote? Greater autonomy for those regions? It's not a problem with any clear solution or one that will please everybody especially since the divisions are along ethnic lines. This sort of thing is the essence of human history, constant turmoil.

[@BobBob-eb4io]

@@Darrylizer1 good question if i was the spanish government i would avoid those two things the most and proubably try to provoke some kind of unorganized uprising so i could put it down quick

[@CarlosMartinez-yq1gm]

@@Darrylizer1 In Spain, the politicians of separatist parties play with separatism as a way of blackmailing the national government that governs (it does not matter which party or coalition governs). They are like a mafia establishment that only aspires to rely on the state if possible, or to claim more power to extract taxes from the citizens of their regions, creating their own structures to benefit friends, friends' companies or buy votes. . Corruption.

[@evaristmilian7826]

Perhaps because in the year 2000 the Vasque terrorists were placing bombs & murdering citizens indiscriminately...

[@Spartakiss]

Based on the thumbnail thought this was going to be about Vito Corleone

[@jamesconstable3680]

Wonderful job as always!!

[@bluedonkeyman]

the presenter makes it seem like liberalization is something good.

[@joanblond8527]

What would you prescribe?

[@bluedonkeyman]

@@joanblond8527 You will see for yourself with your own eyes soon,. right after the war. if you survive.

[@professorkatze1123]

I can't see the bad in this Dictator. He fought the communists, who would have without a doubt ran spain into the ground if they had the chance to gain control, and left behind a peaceful country with a pretty robust economy. The only problem i see is that he did not root out the communists South Korea style.

[@richardshiggins704]

Excellent and unbiased historical review , pleasingly narrated and thank you . As for Franco I would say an accomplished political operator in the context of evolving world events during the middle and latter part of the 20th century . As an Irish man we had a rather dim witted conservative version of Franco in the person of de Valera . As Franco deftly did for Spain he kept Ireland out of the WW2 conflict but by his stultifying mind set nearly kept Ireland out of the 20th century . I agree with you , a very enigmatic and chameleon type individual well suited to the times .

[@Jimboken1]

DeV wasn’t conservative. He was a patrician elitist socialist like FDR. 'D’ Emergency was sensible and if not absolutely shameful, it was nothing to be proud of. At least behind the scenes the Irish government was supportive of Britain.

[@sodthelotayou3712]

Franco was terrorist who took Spain over in an illegal coup, deposing a democratically elected government and then he continued the killing of his opponents almost to the time of his death. He held Spain back by forty years. Read your history, he wasn't an astute political operator he ruled by terror.

[@squareinsquare2078]

@@Jimboken1 Dev may not have been an outward conservative, but he definitely was one. 1916 and the War of Independence were failures for Ireland really, control was ceded to the Catholic Church who really led the country into harsh conservatism, and in a way was like a dictatorship. The leaders of 1916 had very different visions for Ireland than what occurred. Pearse and the others execution left military men like Collins to take power. Dev's legacy was a massive failure, it wasn't til Lemas that Ireland had some forward-thinking leaders. And it wasn't until Ireland removed the yoke of the church and joined the EU that it became a real democracy.

[@Jimboken1]

@@squareinsquare2078 A nationalist and social conservative does not equate to a Burkean conservative. Like a significant loud minority's 'Irish nationalism' is nothing more than a hatred of England (Dev’s ‘Burn everything British but their coal’ and his Treaty absolutism which of course precludes a treaty) so many people’s ‘atheism’ is nothing more than a primal hatred of the Catholic Church. You for example.

[@Jimboken1]

@@sodthelotayou3712 You’re obviously someone that most people could have an enjoyable conversation with......

[@dhindaravrel8712]

There is no rehabilitation from a crime that has caused a death, not to mention thousands. You cannot restore life to the dead, and so you cannot absolve someone of guilt.

[@andreasleonardo6793]

Excellent video about famous Spanish dictator( Franco) his story life and his promoted in side Spanish military ..video from excellent specific channel thanks for sharing

[@mrmirza7617]

Highly informative and interesting. Well done. Excellent job.

[@Jimboken1]

I enjoyed this a - a fair review. A large chunk of his support base were truly religious catholics and that christianity guided much of his civil leadership in the 50’s and beyond. The better angels perhaps wouldn’t have been so influential if Franco hadn’t already obliterated opposition earlier. Right wing economics and subsequent floating of all boats buys much goodwill for even totalitarian regimes. CCP is the modern prime example.

[@Jimboken1]

@@Gerryjournal Yeah ur right of course, Jesus is Hitler

[@felixantoineclaudemoracami1723]

oblitered opposition means what? mass assassination or civilian bombing?

[@joeyfotofr]

I like the fact that this was a balanced view, but let's not go too far. Fact is, most of the people these Catholic fascists slaughtered were Spanish peasants

[@Jimboken1]

@@joeyfotofr You’ve attended university, haven’t you? Most communists aren’t peasants; they’re elitists from wealthy and privileged backgrounds. I include the founders of communism and all modern communists and limousine liberals. Psychopaths like Guevara who was a medical student and Castro was a wealthy landowner and lawyer.

[@jasonrowe344]

I grew up in Spain. I remember the day he died. I saw something I had never seen before in kiosks on Madrid sidewalks. Men’s magazines. Playboy ect

[@josephinekennard6657]

What a vast amount of knowledge and hard work it takes to keep these profiles so interesting to view. Fantastic work. Keep it up. Josie Kennard

[@777jones]

You are pronouncing Spanish like a Boss!

[@richardcreamer1046]

You are pronouncing Spanish like a Castilian. only one of the many provinces of Spain

[@TheMelbournelad]

@@richardcreamer1046 from what I am told the Spanish of Spain is Castilian dialect. As was from there and Aragon that completed the Reconquista.

[@TheMelbournelad]

Also I’m told the Mexicans have a “purer” Spanish as they have a rules school or something that sets what can be in language or not. So where European Spain has had new words seep in, Mexican/South American Spanish by extension is purer more Castilian Spanish.

[@PeopleProfiles]

That's our new narrator, he's worked for the BBC.

[@Jimboken1]

@@TheMelbournelad There’s currency in this

[@vijaymujumdar5617]

Franco saved Spain from leftists. His methods were brutal though consistent with the culture of 1930-50. He led Spain to economic and political renaissance from dark days of the civil war.

[@melcooperman2073]

Viva Franco! Arriba España

[@shawndavis2611]

Hey great work but whats happened to the Robert e lee profile and when you gonna do more on the American civil war-like u s grant Jefferson Davis and Fredrick Douglas it would be really good to see those as one big video keep up the great work

[@PeopleProfiles]

Both Lee and Grant are inbound.

[@stever4128]

New to your channel I love it. Looking forward to future content. 👏👏

[@trj1442]

That was an excellent episode. Thankyou for your content.

[@odshop55]

Very good comments &video. I think Franco is a built dictator regime and brutal but at the same time avoiding Spain to fall in the communist badly regime.

[@jjt1881]

Thank you for all the beautiful vistas of Valencia.

[@kafon6368]

After what happened in the 20th century, we can all agree that monarchies are stable, sane governments compared to what we saw in Russia and Germany.

[@fshiravand]

They are nothing but TERRORISM, RACISM, COLONIALISM, MILITARISM ...

[@utkarshchoudhary3870]

Confused indians screaming

[@tomgnyc]

King Leopold disagrees.

[@utkarshchoudhary3870]

@@tomgnyc oh that.... Yeahh....

[@utkarshchoudhary3870]

Sane governments *India literaly starving and dragged into utter poverty*

[@JDSFLA]

Excellent narration and well balanced presentation of General Franco. Subscribed.

[@trabajodisciplinacrecimien8230]

not even balanced,he did not say that he bombed Madrid with bread and cigarretes to help the population under judeomasonic comunist republic in madrid,they were dying from starvation,and he did that,that he created most of the actual water reserves in Spain,and he did not talk about the murders the republic made killing 200 politicians and burning of churchs,the red terror it was,thanks to Franco and all the generals that destroyed that judeomasonic murderer republic.

[@Elkhammaseducationzone]

Thank you for this excellent documentary.

[@martintapia9374]

👌😃 Thank you for a lavishly interesting documentary on an camaleonic person like Franco.

[@Genjuanpa]

General Franco was no "nationalist". He was just a classical conservative catholic . Autoritarism was just consequence of the cruel civil war. He was wise, honest and un fact the last general to join the national Alzamiento because. Nevermind what media says now , he was inmensely respected by most spaniards because of progress and peace

[@tomasiturralde4705]

This man was thrust into a life he never even imagined but did the best he could for what he believed in. "A man's got to do what he's got to do" as one saying goes because at that moment or point in time where you have to think on your feet and roll with the punches especially in thar awful period during WWII with the vicious Nazi Germany and fascist Italy to keep his country safe from these bullies.He did well under the circumstances thinking what's best for his people and country. A flexible individual who in the end will win the day, never mind the critics since they'll always be there.

[@ernestmacmurray1716]

a man got to do what he got to do........well put

[@Delvenero]

Spain did not deserve him, whether you believe he was just another dictator or a saviour of Spain. He loved his country and did what he thought was in the best interest for his country.

[@shroomboy475]

he allied with the fascists to defeat the communists but alright

[@arpandey698]

@@Delvenero so did Hitler and we see what became of germany due to him.

[@chelolopez7918]

5 millions dead another millions left Spain and the country destroyed hunger and suffering, a great Coup

[@rusoviettovarich9221]

A decent presentation of the man and his times. The one caveat is the usual minimizing the violence and hatred that was a calling card of the Republicans prior to and during the civil war. In addition yes Franco's regime did do as stated, horrifically taking children away from Republican parents no question about that. The terror by the Republicans even before 1936 is rarely is ever mentioned. Numerous religious were executed esp after the initial coup failed to topple the republicans. The harvest the CCCP garnered from this pact was their plundering nearly 90% of Spanish bullion for their wares used by the Republicans as well as unleashing their murderous death squads. True the 'Blue Legion; did fight on the Leningrad front but the Russians had Spanish Republican troops on the opposite side and both the Germans and Russians were amused with the insults hurled by the dual countrymen. Franco intentionally upped his ante for fighting for the Nazis because as a great author Jonathan Rabb noted in his novel 'The Second Son' per a Nationalist officer Colonel Alfassi "We won't win the wars without the Germans. We know it. That doesn't mean we become like them." Another remark "These Germans see it differently. For them it's terror, not truth; power, not faith. And while I'd be foolish to say that terror and power don't serve other ends, they can't be the only reason we do this. At least not in my Spain." Those two remarks encapsulates the vast chasm btwn the brutality and true evil of Nazism and the forceful but pragmatic use of such by a people of deep faith such as Franco, most of which had read and heard the horrific treatment by Calles of Catholic religious in Mexico when Republican 'progressives' gain control (Cristero War 1921- 1929). Lastly the core of Castro's indoctrination were the very Republican soldiers who fled Spain by 1939 and as the cold war began were salted by the GRU throughout Latin America.

[@zachmartin1458]

Not to excuse any abuses of power by any form of government, but one difference I have observed between right leaning and left leaning dictatorships is that with right wing dictatorships there is a drift toward liberalism. With leftist dictatorships, there is the occasional drift, followed by a severe crackdown. An interesting phenomenon that bears further investigation.

[@josron6088]

It seems He engaged in extreme measures to maintain stability then later liberalize his regime