Comments by "Elizabeth Loveland" (@Shineon83) on "The Truth about Franco : Zero Hour | History Documentary" video.

  1. “Part of the population stood behind Franco…” 😂 ….Franco lasted his entire life because the MAJORITY of the Spanish ppl supported him
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  2. Ridiculously one-sided….Had the Republicans won, Spain would have become a Soviet Sattelite—and the slaughter would have been many times greater (“Beginning with the educated”)….Franco was the best, possible outcome for Spain (plus, Spain’s economy & GDP has never been stronger/higher as it was under Franco’s 30-yr rule)…
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  3.  @asturiasceltic3183  Save the condescension for someone else. My “information” comes from interviews with Spanish Republican leaders, interviews with Stalin aide, Sergei Asmonov (1930-1939) and from the lips of people who fought on the Republican side (in addition to significant research on the subject)…. In addition to providing the majority of arms used by the Republicans, Stalin provided over 1,000 Soviet tank crews & pilots, and over 300 Soviet military advisors (who rapidly moved to dominate Republican leadership)….One of the primary reasons for the Republicans swift demise after 1938 was due to the in-fighting between the Anarchists & Spanish Republicans, on one side and the Soviet-led faction, on the other….Stalin scaled back aid dramatically as Hitler’s armaments & pilots began taking an unaffordable toll—then ceased, entirely, when German feelers were first put out regarding what would become the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact…. Though the question as to whether Stalin had specific “designs” on Spain as a “satellite” or not has never been definitively answered, most historians suggest that had the Soviet-German pact not occurred, Spain would likely have fallen into the Soviet sphere.
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  4. ….If you “counted” the number of ppl slaughtered by the “Republicans”—they would far surpass those by the Nationalists
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