Franco Part 4: The Cold War & the President
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Franco's Censorship of the Second World War
At first, as Hitler and the Axis powers stormed into World War II, Franco was at Payne's distress his sympathy for their far right cause. In early 1943, Germany's disastrous defeat at Stalingrad forced this Franco to rethink his allegiances. When Mussolini is overthrown in July that same year, Franco begins to make efforts to distance himself from fascism. Rather than portraying himself as an outnapped fascist, he seeks to redefine,. to rebrand himself and his regime as anti-communist.
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