What can Veeky Forums tell me about Fransico Franco

Half a million deaths vs. three million dead and occupation?

Way worse if we assume that allies would attack the puppet Spanish government to try to liberate it right after Spain was invaded by Germany.

Spain had a pretty good economy under him and it was very stable and grew well so he's regime done something right I guess

I really lie that picture that is based on zero evidence

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>under him
Under technocrats and only since the 1960s. Initialy Franco pursued the policy of autarky.

>Cut off from external trade by boycotts and under a policy of autarky, the country could only make a very slow recovery and was poverty stricken in the two decades after the war. Industrial production did not regain its 1936 level until 1955, and the crucial agricultural sector took until 1959 to recover.

Franco’s policy of economic selfsufficiency or autarky contributed to the repression and humiliation of the defeated and to capital accumulation although its rigidity also delayed eventual growth. Considering himself to be an economist of genius, Franco embraced autarky oblivious to the fact that Spain lacked the technological and industrial base which had made such a policy feasible for the Third Reich. Autarky in Spain brought economic and social disaster – the shortages consequent upon closing Spain to the world provoked the emergence of a black market, the estraperlo, which exacerbated the differences between rich and poor.
Inevitably, it was those close to the regime who benefited and the defeated who suffered. State interventionism in every aspect of the planting, harvesting, processing, sale and distribution of wheat was so corrupt that it made fortunes for officials while creating shortages that saw food prices rocket. Access to work and ration cards meant getting identity cards and safe conducts which involved certificates of ‘good behaviour’ from local Falangist officials and parish priests. Inevitably, the defeated suffered materially and were further humiliated while the sense of well being of the victors was enhanced.

Largely uncharismatic and unpopular apart from the hyper Catholic sections of society but his shift away from a centrally planned economy proved incredibly beneficial and gave Spain's economy phenomenal growth.

This just in...

Generalissimo Fransisco Franco is still dead.

Wasnt that growth based on tourism?

He was a fascist. And now the leftist parties on Spain are considering taking his corpse out of the Important Graveyard.

How did you come up with 3 million?

Do they just deny he was part of Spain's history and do away with anything related to his era. He should be left there regardless.

Opening another front line just to buy Germany more time could easily been many times worse because of allied advantages in air superiority (and "strategic" bombing), manpower, and weaponry compared to the Spanish army.

Nah. According to askhistorians he is better considered a Catholic reactionary because he did not seek to transform society but rather restore it.

He saved Spain from both communism and Nazi takeover in WWII.

inb4 "communism isn't bad"
inb4 "Hitler dindu nuffin"

This.

He literally saved Spain and is the only time fascism actually worked

But his regime wasn't fascist.

Depends on how you define 'fascism'. The word has been so corrupted, it can basically mean anything depending on where you stand politically. Case in point, antifa protesting against "fascist" Trump lol

wut... he hated israel and zionism, he even supported nasser, saddam, and king hussein against israel.

he believed in an international jewish masonic conspiracy and strongly opposed zionism.

>Saddam

Franco was dead by the time Saddam became relevant.

As for Franco supporting Nasser...Lol, no. Nasser was advocating destroying Spain's holdings in Morocco.

Spain received large amounts of Israeli weapons in lieu of NATO shipments in the 1960s

Stupid things that they have seen in other threads, plus that he was not a dictator unlike FDR and that he saved Spain unlike uhm? Obama, for example.

He was a socialist who liked north africans a little bit too much

>Francoist Spain did not recognize Israel citing an international conspiracy of Jews and Freemasons against Spain, the "contubernio judeo-masónico".[2] In 1949, the State of Israel voted against lifting sanctions against Spain in the United Nations General Assembly due to the Francoist regime's sympathy and material support for the Axis Powers.[3] Despite the lack of diplomatic ties, the Franco government helped Jewish emigration from Morocco in the 1960s and, during the Six-Day War in 1967, issued Laissez-Passer documents to Egyptian Jews, enabling them to emigrate.[4]

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you have no idea what you're talking. spain even let saddam pray in the cordoba church (formerly mosque).

Do you have sources that spain supported israel?

Franco's entire army that liberated spain from the judeobolshevists was moroccan

Spain would fall in a month max. Nowhere close to 3 year.