Comments by "thierrydesu" (@thierrydesu) on "Why was Spain Neutral in WW2?" video.

  1. Ca commence fort : l'Espagne était idéologiquement proche de l'Italie et de l'Allemagne. Ah tiens, le régime de Franco était socialiste ?
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  2. Fascism is a branch of socialism. What does that have to do with the regime of Franco ?
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  3.  @sermike16  Franco was catholic and conservative. Therefore he could not be a fascist. Fascism is a branch of socialism.
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  4.  @sermike16  And I wonder where you find that fascism is nationalistic. Germany and Italy invaded all Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle-East. Isn't that imperialism instead ? Imperialism is socialism.
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  5.  @sermike16  I know all that. It's just that I don't agree. The spread of Germany and Italy is not a direct consequence of WWII. Hitler and Mussolini had anticipated annexations. The led wars of agression, that is to say imperialist wars, which is right the opposite of nationalism. German was thinking of makin g an empire not just for the Germans but for all the peoples of aryan race, that is to say his empire would have comprised the Alsatians, the Flemish, the Dutch and the Danish. That would have given a country with multiple peoples, multiple languages, multiple religions and multiple cultures. A nightmare for a nationalist. As for Mussolini, he was meaning to create a Mediterranean empire... That is to say with the muslim Arabs. Where do you see a nationalist plan ? As for Spain, Franco, Hitler and Mussolini had the same hate for communism, that does not make Franco a fascist. Although Franco let volunteers fight under the German uniform on the eastern front, he refused to enter WWII.
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  6.  @sermike16  But that's not the typical way of seeing nationalism. Nationalism is about one people, one language, one culture, ideally one religion.
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