Franco Part 1: Spain’s Buried Past
Real Dictators
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The Story of a Young Soldier in Morocco
Franco graduates 250 first out of 300 d 12 cadets in his intake. Young soldiers feel incentivized to station in morocco because here they can be promoted more rapidly. Franco and two companins are posted as reserves to melia, a spanish protectorate on the coast of morocco. For him, it's a chance to realize his dreams of military heroism. The tactics of the spanish army were not very sophisticated. They use colonial troops to fight natives, so they have less dictims, white victims. And they practise violent repression against local communities,. forcing people to pay taxes, doing horrible things tro the bodis, yping tropies of the bodi.
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