>republicans stop the coup in 1936 and force the nationalists to struggle for 3 years to achieve a victory
>numerous republicans refuse to surrender and continue a guerilla war that lasts up to the 1950s, even attempting to invade Spain with a large force from France at the end of ww2
>before the last maquisards have even left the mountains, a new generation of radicals emerge from university campuses in late 1950s that havent even fought in the civil war and start clashing with police frequently, along with miners holding strikes
>late 1960s those same students start creating different anarchist and communist groups who carry out bombings, bank roberries and kill police officers
>ETA emerges spontaniously and carries out literally thousands of attacks (im not even joking look it up)
>groups in exile do the same thing attacking embassies and a yacht gets sucesfully hijacked and extorted for freedom for political prisoners
>riots, bombings and general violence force the state to imprison and execute people, causing the international community to shun Spain and pull out embassies and investments
>ETA kills Blanco and leaves Franco without a heir
>even the fucking catholic church turns their back on Franco
>Franco ACK!-s and overnight all the former republican parties and movements reconstitute politically and lead Spain to democracy
This all happened even though Spain was literally Fascist the whole time and liberally used arrests,executions, torture, and states of eception. Hell they even did human experiments trying to find a way to genetically prevent people from becoming leftists. How did other "Authoritarian" governments, whether Left or Right in Europe at the time manage to root out militant opposition within years of taking power and the Spanish resistance continue from the first to last day of the dictatoeship, even though they were ultimatelly not a major threat to the government, it is impressive to me how consistently radical it remained for the duration of the regime.
Because it was operated from the french borders,you said it in your post
It helped that Franco wasn’t an ideological fascist so much as a pragmatic conservative army officer who kept the other factions, particularly the Carlists and the Falangists, in check. In fact, he deliberately engineered a system that kept them competing and fighting among themselves to prevent any one faction from becoming too powerful. His ultimate plan was to groom the future king into his vision of a conservative monarch(he did this by sending him to military school and thought that would be enough) who would preserve his legacy. That plan backfired spectacularly, because the king he raised turned out to be a liberal who promptly dismantled much of Franco’s bullshit.
>>2929984Franco was very much a fascist, just one that was smart enough not to invade other countries or openly align with the Axis Powers.
Tbh because Franco killed a lot of leftists but not enough, along with the fact he was Castillian supremacist (despite being Galician) so Greater Catalonia and Vasconia would always seek freedom.
>>2929984>>2930024Yeah the myth that "Franco was just a conservative" ignores that he did build a fascist state with a party regime and everything. He didn't fight in WW2 because a million people died in the Spanish civil war.
It's very interesting as someone who had very little knowledge about anything after the big Republican defeat. I thought all leftist forces were eesentialy wiped out and all that remained a few Basques doing terrorism. This is almost as impressive as the CPC history.
>>2930270I posted this as a hopepill, if anything. I know these groups were unable to overthrow him, but it still shows that even despite fascism and severe repression, they never managed to exterminate the left or scare it into submission so its good to know that even these types of situations are not hopeless, should they ever arise again.
>>2929984Franco's plan didn't backfire. He wanted an absolute monarchy but there was pressure to integrate into Europe, so his government waited until he died to make a parliament and amnesty themselves.
>>2930270Socialist forces were wiped out, like everywhere else in the 20s and 30s. The nationalists with red flags of the 60s and 70s, which in Spain lasted until the 2000s were the vogue retardism of communists at that time, "national liberation".
>>2930201Isn't it curious that the fall of 'fascism' in Spain and Portugal coincided with the profitability crisis of the 1970s which made corporatist industrial policy obsolete in most of Europe?
>>2930201>>2930290Also after the victory of anti-colonial struggle most places elsewhere: mattered more in Portugal than Spain but a fascist regime can't just give up its empire.
Also there was a military conspiracy similar to the one in Portugal where leftists officers formed a group of several hundred men that wanted to do the same thing as in Portugal but they were discovered and arrested. So even the army and catholic church that literally brought Franco to power and were his biggest allies were turning on him near the end of the regime lmao
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>Hell they even did human experiments trying to find a way to genetically prevent people from becoming leftists
Did they found the cure? We could reverse engineer it to make evryone leftist with it.
>>2930304>We could reverse engineer it to make evryone leftist with it.We already have HRT
>>2930201Oh God, are we still doing the ‘West Germany was totally Nazi’ schtick again
>>2929969narrative based politics, a form of willful great man politics
the western countries support Franco for years, and stop support when he personally ceases to be in the picture
just because great man theory isnt real doesnt mean people abd groups dont mske choices based off of it
>>2930319Transgenders are only leftist like that because rightists became single issue anti-trans in the mid 2010s, which is good enough of a reason, but it's not some inherent quality.
Salvador Dali, Franco's personal friend and a fascist, was notorious for having plenty of transgender lovers/friends, to stay on the topic of Spain.
>>2930415>Salvador Dali, Franco's personal friend and a fascist, was notorious for having plenty of transgender lovers/friends, to stay on the topic of Spain.I mean, yeah chasers are not known to be good virtous people with good intentions and beliefs
>>2930432I meant that he had RW transgender friends, evidently.
>>29304394/lgbt/ is full of RW trans people
It's extremely myopic when people think [minority] = LW
>>2930432I'm just built different and think transhumanist (deliberately typed this, not filtered from the slur) communists are generally cool people to hang out with.
>>2930373Who was the President of the Federation of German Industries 6 December 1973 – 18 October 1977?
>>2930489Moralism, and half the bureaucrats in the DDR as well as the soviet space engineers were ex-Nazi. It's not a problem to use the talented among you defeated ennemies to serve your worldview and economy.
>>2930492This is literally not true the nazi space engineers ran into operation paperclip. German Nazis killed themselves rather than "surrender to the bolsheviks".
>>2930295To a certain degree decolonisation has been a plot by the US to take over European colonies. This is still ongoing in the case of the Sahel region where GCC (= Israel = US) funded Islamists are encroaching on a resource rich region and old French neocolonial structures which are much more "straightforward" (direct confiscation of foreign revenue and direct military intervention by the way of the French Foreign Legion instead of ethnic/religious proxies).
>>2930492German engineers working out of Soviet jail on space programs is the exact same as the Nazi legal judges being unchanged.
>>2930492libs ironically often make the whataboutist argument about former nazis in the soviet union when talking about operation paperclip, not understanding that they were treated much worse compared to those who escaped to the west. The nazis themselves in fact understood this also very well, which is why most surrendered rather to western forces than the soviets.
>>2931483He just looks like Hitler and was also a sensitive man who practiced drawings and paintings.
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