Kai Hewlett
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Wednesday 02 September 2026 23:59:48 GMT
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suari 🐣 :
let it be known a neo nazi party is running for elections next year. fully legal. no repercussions
2026-09-03 07:40:25
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Stonie :
Franco supporters are still alive. They call themselves VOX now. Also, we’re 6 hours ahead of the east coast by 6 hours bc of Franco AND THEY JUST NEVER CHANGED IT
2026-09-03 05:22:35
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1# EL MAÑANA FAN (magic man) :
i also might add that part of franco’s regime was about erasing cultures that have existed in spain for centuries now (such as catalans, galicians, and basques) and forcing them into catholic spanish traditions
2026-09-03 10:01:10
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Daniel Figuero :
Spaniard here. I don't understand the semi fascist statement. He was friends with Hitler and Mussolini for God's sake. In terms of morality he put us 40 years behind the rest of Europe. No democracy, no controversial voices, exile... that sounds like fully fascism to me
2026-09-03 06:09:35
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R :
my grandad fought in the Spanish civil war. He was a rail worker and a part of the union, he joined up with socialist forces and fought the fascists. he even watched his father get killed at Cibeles in Madrid.
2026-09-03 00:07:36
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𝕬𝖒𝖇𝖆𝖗 ་༘࿐ :
it's scary seeing Franco's symbols proudly displayed on the streets as of today and supporters taking part in the elections. Spain needs to remember it's history
2026-09-03 09:29:18
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P4BLP :
Well he isnt a fascist, but doesnt change the fact that he saved Spain from communism and being a ussr satellite state until 1989
2026-09-03 11:31:26
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axi 🇵🇸 :
forgotten ????? maybe everywhere but in spain lol
2026-09-03 16:37:26
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𝓐𝓶𝓪𝓻𝓪 ᥫ᭡. :
Till this day, people still say “life wasn’t that bad under Franco” 💀… coming from people who didn’t even live through it
2026-09-03 10:54:23
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Kevin 🍊 American in Valencia :
The dictatorship had a lot of lasting effects, too. Especially since his supporters didn't disappear overnight, so even after the transition into democracy (which wasn't that long ago), we're still dealing with the damage. Love your content btw
2026-09-03 06:12:22
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Nick Sushkoff :
You should talk about Luis Carrero Blanco. Spain’s first astronaut
2026-09-03 00:27:47
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agrellagalega :
Very good for a short glimpse into a very complex history, just a small pointer: Try not to use the term "nationalist zone" or "nationals" to refer to the rebel forces, since that is the term that they themselves claimed, as using "national" implies they were the true defenders. They might have hated the term rebels, but that is what objectively they were, since they rebelled against a legitimate government. And as for the issue of it being fascistic or semifascistic, it is complex and also depends on which period we are talking: the traditional historiography divides the Franco regime in three distinct phases, the first, the falangist faces from the 40s to the early 50's characterized by autarchy, collaboration with axis powers and the importance of the falangist faction inside the government, this era I think can be called fascistic with a doubt, since falangism was basically the Spanish version of fascism. The second was the National Catholic, which is the one you described and that went mostly until the end of the 60's, and the last one would be the technocracy, which is characterized for more open market technocrats without a strong ideological drive being more in charge and a drive to present a more acceptable and open image of Spain towards the world and Europe and of course making things more blurry, even if some factions changed in power, they still had some influence and thus those three eras kind of bleed into the others a lot.
2026-09-03 17:07:53
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miaw :
as a spaniard that lives the inheritance of his time, yea it was pretty fxscistic
2026-09-03 01:32:49
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Antonio :
The political change Spain had within the last 50 years is insane. Even with the failed putsch of 1981
2026-09-03 00:14:16
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seamonster :
theres mass graves every 50km or so in spain due to his dictatorship. I live in spain and theres a huge one near me, the victims only got an official burial this year
2026-09-03 10:58:10
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justlurk1ng :
I guess the academic arguing the finer points of his fascism should ask the queer people he sent to Fuerteventura whether he was fascist or semi fascist. Or the people buried in mass graves 😅
2026-09-03 04:52:06
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PapiDaniiiii :
what he built was never fully deconstructed, everyone kind of just moved on and now we're seeing the repercussions
2026-09-03 08:53:41
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Lapen🐰Coms open!! :
A chunk of my family that was republican (spanish vr) disappeared and now we don't know where their bodies are. Franco's dictatorship was brutal, but silently so, and that makes memory blur for those who didn't live in the middle of the brutally of it all. My family hasn't forgotten, and we never will.
2026-09-03 13:07:34
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Sampa :
Have a classmate who said Franco was a good man because he helped Christians, because he killed communists. Totally denying the ones who fought for democracy or the children and women he killed
2026-09-03 15:07:35
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josemperez472 :
There was nothing semi about him. He was full on….
2026-09-03 17:13:11
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ryanmacinnes136 :
my favourite George Orwell novel: 'Homage To Calalonia'. i highly recommend anyone to read it.
2026-09-03 13:52:34
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reece <3 :
there's an excellent podcast called real dictators that covers franco and many, many others. some of their series are longer than others based on historical records, but i highly recommend for people who want to start learning more about how fascism forms!
2026-09-03 17:50:20
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jester :
i have been to his monument in madrid and im not even kidding on how heavy the air felt, it was so eerie being surrounded by people that worship these ideologies and see no problem with it
2026-09-03 08:43:01
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Nicola | F1 & Leclerc :
Visca el Barça i visca Catalunya 💙❤️
2026-09-03 00:43:57
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soupynormmacdonald :
I did not realise there were people out there who knew about Franco who don’t think he was a fascist. He literally changed Spain’s time zone to closer align with the Nazis which is why they are still currently in the wrong time zone
2026-09-03 12:08:12
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