General Franco
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Is He Just an Autocrat?
Franco was a deeply conservative authoritarian military dictator with little concern for human rights, other than those of the wealthy who supported him. The woman he married, Carmen Polo, was from a very rich family in Asturias. She was very much the dominant figure and drove him on. But then he acquired certain ideas and his central idea, if one can call it an idea, is the notion of the Jewish Bolshevik Masonic conspiracy. Even on his last speech, a few days before his final illness, he was still talking about the Jewish Bolshevik Freemasonry conspiracy.
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