Comments by "EdMcF1" (@EdMcF1) on "Why Franco & Spain stayed out of WW2?" video.

  1. Franco was more a military Catholic Corporatist riding the Falange tiger and holding it by the ears all the way to his death in 1975, using the Falange as a political movement then a label, and really he was a Catholic 'anti-Cromwell", more like Cromwell than either would have wished to admit. A lot of influential Spaniards were horrified at at the German treatment of Catholic Poland in particular right from the off.
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  2. In a way, he was Spain's Oliver Cromwell, 300 years later. He effectively took the Crown for himself after leading the bulk of the Army to victory over his enemies, and his main drive was his religion, although he was a direct opposite of what Cromwell believed in, the approach was very similar. Once in power, he stayed until death, but let the Crown return as he died.
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  3. Franco was a bit ambitious, good job he sat on his hands, he had no reason to go for Portugal, but if he had, a second Wellington (please God not Monty) lands forces at Lisbon and Porto to shore up Portugal, the UK gets sea and air bases in the Azores, Madeira and the Canaries, and the Battle of the Atlantic tilts more strongly to the Allies.
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  4. Which is why he will never be forgiven.
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  5. Indeed, their song 'Cara al sol, con la camisa puesta' - 'face to the Sun, with the shirt on.'
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  6. Igor, good points, and for others 'EUA' = 'USA'.
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  7.  @kristianhartlevjohansen3541  Yes, the fact that Commies threw nuns and priests off bridges alive in Spain might have had something to do with that.
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  8.  @kristianhartlevjohansen3541  Well yes, because the alternative meant being murdered, like the priests and nuns in Spain killed in the Civil War.
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