General Franco
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Franco's Origins
Franco was not a fascist, but worse in some respects than Mussolini. The number of Spanish citizens that were massacred by Franco is giganticly more than the Italians who were killed by Mussolini. But basically, to go back to your question, when I said that in some respects, Franco was not afascist, he was something worse. He is what in Spanish terms one would call an Africanista. That's to say, a colonial army officer who was formed in the African Wars in Morocco. And since he then identified the working class population,. particularly the rural population of the south of Spain with tribesmen of northern Morocco, he basically applied those same beliefs - if we can call
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