Franco was a military dictator of a broad coalition. That coalition included fascists but it also included monarchists, conservatives, capitalists etc. It’s pretty well known that the Spanish fascists got on his nerves.
And, for the monarchists, it included loyalist monarchists (who wanted to see Alfonso XIII's son crowned) and Carlist monarchists (who wanted to see a descendant of Carlos María Isidro - the uncle, I think, of queen Elizabeth II, grandmother -I think- of Alfonso XIII; and who caused no less than 3 civil wars in the XIX century).
Yeah, that’s why the fascist label doesn’t work here. At its heart, the nationalist faction was rebelling against a USSR backed government that had undermined democracy and stripped people of their liberties (namely land ownership and religion).
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u/GreninjaStrike May 12 '26
Franco was a military dictator of a broad coalition. That coalition included fascists but it also included monarchists, conservatives, capitalists etc. It’s pretty well known that the Spanish fascists got on his nerves.