Why Didn't the Allies Get Rid of Franco After the Second World War? Documentary
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Date: 2022-07-19
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Science
Franco was a Criminal but hated communism. So it was friend of the US and he was not removed from power.
Due to this, Spain suffered 30 years of mass killing, civil war and all kind of atrocities thanks to this aliance.
Franco was in power until his dead in 1975, aged 82 His dictatorship's use of forced labor, concentration camps and executions led to between 50, 000 and 100, 000 deaths. Combined with wartime killings, this brings the death toll of the White Terror to between 100, 000 and 200, 000
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Franco was a Criminal but hated communism. So it was friend of the US and he was not removed from power.
Due to this, Spain suffered 30 years of mass killing, civil war and all kind of atrocities thanks to this aliance.
Franco was in power until his dead in 1975, aged 82 His dictatorship's use of forced labor, concentration camps and executions led to between 50, 000 and 100, 000 deaths. Combined with wartime killings, this brings the death toll of the White Terror to between 100, 000 and 200, 000
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COL
Quick answer. People wouldn't have it. By 1945, the Americans and British were sick of destruction and death. Britain was out of manpower - it had to break up trained divisions to provide replacements in the European Campaign. Franco wasn't aggressive, he wasn't threatening anyone, so let Spain stew in own juices. What happens inside a country is that country's concern, no one elses' There was no duty to intervene. You might as well ask why the Western Allies didn't march on Moscow
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Quick answer. People wouldn't have it. By 1945, the Americans and British were sick of destruction and death. Britain was out of manpower - it had to break up trained divisions to provide replacements in the European Campaign. Franco wasn't aggressive, he wasn't threatening anyone, so let Spain stew in own juices. What happens inside a country is that country's concern, no one elses' There was no duty to intervene. You might as well ask why the Western Allies didn't march on Moscow
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Chloe
When you said invaded by a Fascist country, you animation then proceeded to show Germany invade France. Germany wasn't Fascist, it was National Socialist, which is different to Fascism which is National Syndicalism. Maybe you just made a mistake but i do tend to see this inaccuracy a lot, you should probably do a revised video as the 2 ideologies National Socialism and Fascism aren't the same things and as an educational video, they should be 100% accurate.
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When you said invaded by a Fascist country, you animation then proceeded to show Germany invade France. Germany wasn't Fascist, it was National Socialist, which is different to Fascism which is National Syndicalism. Maybe you just made a mistake but i do tend to see this inaccuracy a lot, you should probably do a revised video as the 2 ideologies National Socialism and Fascism aren't the same things and as an educational video, they should be 100% accurate.
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Alberto
To give full dimension to this issue is required to mentioned the massacre carried out by Franco after the civil war. Exterminating over 100k civilians using all kind of exotic reasons like: getting accussed by your neighbour of being a comunist or a masonry, being gay, being a liberal school teacher, being critic with Franco, being a atheist, etc. No Franco means no Genocide in post civil war period.
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To give full dimension to this issue is required to mentioned the massacre carried out by Franco after the civil war. Exterminating over 100k civilians using all kind of exotic reasons like: getting accussed by your neighbour of being a comunist or a masonry, being gay, being a liberal school teacher, being critic with Franco, being a atheist, etc. No Franco means no Genocide in post civil war period.
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fsilber
Why would the decision to leave Franco alone be hypocritical of criticism of the Soviet Union's domination of Eastern Europe? (We'd be for peace and self-determination, and the Soviet Union would be practicing domination and colonialism)
Besides, even during the worst of World War 2, Franco's Spain was a much better place than anywhere under Soviet control.
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Why would the decision to leave Franco alone be hypocritical of criticism of the Soviet Union's domination of Eastern Europe? (We'd be for peace and self-determination, and the Soviet Union would be practicing domination and colonialism)
Besides, even during the worst of World War 2, Franco's Spain was a much better place than anywhere under Soviet control.
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Genjuanpa
Franco saved Spain from communism. He was no fascist, but a pretty sound catholic conservative military. The youngest general in Europe. Dictatorship was chosen because communism was still alive worldwide, and civil war had shown its cruelty. It was basically a religious war against communism.
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Franco saved Spain from communism. He was no fascist, but a pretty sound catholic conservative military. The youngest general in Europe. Dictatorship was chosen because communism was still alive worldwide, and civil war had shown its cruelty. It was basically a religious war against communism.
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Lo
Franco was more clever than many think. He fight for his country, not for other that never help Spain. So, he do the right thing in the right moment. The only error was to stay until he died. He should reform all to introduce the democracy in the late 50s or 60s when all was stabilized.
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Franco was more clever than many think. He fight for his country, not for other that never help Spain. So, he do the right thing in the right moment. The only error was to stay until he died. He should reform all to introduce the democracy in the late 50s or 60s when all was stabilized.
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Astral'o
Western Unity? Huh! The Americans were just fascists acting like a democratic nation. How could they rival one of their own? They went and committed coups in dozens of other democratic countries only to install fascist dictators that would protect American business interests.
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Western Unity? Huh! The Americans were just fascists acting like a democratic nation. How could they rival one of their own? They went and committed coups in dozens of other democratic countries only to install fascist dictators that would protect American business interests.
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n/a
It could have been disastrous if the reds took over Spain with the advent of nuclear weapons. Spain might have caused the cold war to turn hot during the many crisis when it nearly did. Imagine nuclear weapons right on France's border.
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It could have been disastrous if the reds took over Spain with the advent of nuclear weapons. Spain might have caused the cold war to turn hot during the many crisis when it nearly did. Imagine nuclear weapons right on France's border.
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Drink
Because the Allies had read their history and had reached the logical conclusion that messing with the Spanish, in their territory, never ends good (see Romans, Muslims, Napoleon, Spanish Communist traitors, etc, etc.
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Because the Allies had read their history and had reached the logical conclusion that messing with the Spanish, in their territory, never ends good (see Romans, Muslims, Napoleon, Spanish Communist traitors, etc, etc.
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cabarete2003
Easy. because Communism is just that bad. Remember that the Allies did help Franco. Despite people leaving that out when mentioning that they were supplied by just Germany and Italy.
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Easy. because Communism is just that bad. Remember that the Allies did help Franco. Despite people leaving that out when mentioning that they were supplied by just Germany and Italy.
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Sergio
Spain is the most powerful country because with very little it can do a lot, even Napoleon in the defeat against Spain said he was wrong to think that Spain was an easy country to invade.
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Spain is the most powerful country because with very little it can do a lot, even Napoleon in the defeat against Spain said he was wrong to think that Spain was an easy country to invade.
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Marcos
Yes definitely paid off. though not for Spain, which still enjoys Franco's fingerprints in any state structures, parties, even architecture. Thank you Europe.
Good video!
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Yes definitely paid off. though not for Spain, which still enjoys Franco's fingerprints in any state structures, parties, even architecture. Thank you Europe.
Good video!
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Holypikemanz
Regime change still means slaughering thousands, you plebs. Just sounds nicer. Republics and democracies committ just as many war crimes as anyone else except commies.
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Regime change still means slaughering thousands, you plebs. Just sounds nicer. Republics and democracies committ just as many war crimes as anyone else except commies.
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mariab
Ive not lived under franco goberment, but I can sure you there was much more freedom back then. This is a nightmare. (Im a spanish young female who used to be feminist)
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Ive not lived under franco goberment, but I can sure you there was much more freedom back then. This is a nightmare. (Im a spanish young female who used to be feminist)
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Paul
So America embraced fascism in order to oppose communism and socialism.
That led us down a bad path. Several Western powers are now in danger of falling to fascism.
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So America embraced fascism in order to oppose communism and socialism.
That led us down a bad path. Several Western powers are now in danger of falling to fascism.
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Charter
1: 12 How and what way would that be hypocritical?
A foreign and tyrannic entity occupying foreign countries vs a country which just keeps to itself?
What.
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1: 12 How and what way would that be hypocritical?
A foreign and tyrannic entity occupying foreign countries vs a country which just keeps to itself?
What.
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Davitoma
You forgot the Portugal factor, another fascist regime. If they intervened in Spain they had to do the same in Portugal, and that no one was willing to do.
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You forgot the Portugal factor, another fascist regime. If they intervened in Spain they had to do the same in Portugal, and that no one was willing to do.
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Vitor
Well, short answer, because they would have been beaten to a bloody pulp. After Rome and the Visigoths, no one was able to conquer Spain, not even the Arabs.
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Well, short answer, because they would have been beaten to a bloody pulp. After Rome and the Visigoths, no one was able to conquer Spain, not even the Arabs.
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Asturias
Do a video of why 90% of people have no understanding of the Spanish Civil War and don't realize it had not much to to do with communism but democracy.
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Do a video of why 90% of people have no understanding of the Spanish Civil War and don't realize it had not much to to do with communism but democracy.
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