What Happened to the Right's Only Victory?
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Franco was boring. He was an archetypal generic dictator, at the end of the day. It's the same criticism that, quite ironically, JAPR had against his father's dictatorship decades before Franco's.
Spain neither regressed nor really moved forward under Franco. He got rid of the left, I guess kind of, but he was no fascist, for sure. Fascism does revolutionary things. Most of the progress (real progress even, not jewish progress) in spain has come about after Franco died. Such as the massive expansion of the highway+rail system, among others, which are things that sorely lagged compared to the rest of Europe under franco. So in this way he most certainly can't be compared to any hitler or mussolini.
Franco left little legacy because there wasn't really a legacy to even leave behind (besides support for Arabs, which has its ups and downs, clearly). Even modern day francoists in spain don't really point at much in regards to domestic policy that Franco did, or just outright invent things they think he would do today. They just remember a simpler time and want to go back to it. Fair enough, but if you take power and kind of don't really do much of anything for 40 years, how do you expect a legacy to last? And it's not even that he wasn't a fascist, brazil had Vargas, argentina had peron, both of those were people who fell under no categories but certainly have a *deep* legacy compared to Franco. I would even argue that, even though he's less known outside of iberia, Salazar had more of a legacy than Franco.
What's particularly damning is that, rather than having a true cult of personality (I mean, it was *Kind* of there, but it was secondary at best), Franco chose to parade around the corpse of JAPR for his full tenure. Sort of acknowledging that Franco was not as well liked as JAPR and he *knew* that he wasn't, so he had to use his likeness for legitimacy. And his portrait was absolutely everywhere, far more than Franco's. This legitimized Franco, who was not particularly popular in comparison, to the falangists and the supporters of the Falange. Well, hitler had horst wessel, but horst wessel was not venerated to anywhere close to the same degree as what occurred in spain.
And spain needed no real political silencing to eliminate francos legacy either. It disappeared on its own. A francoist political party (can't remember the name) was actually the first party formed in parliament after his death, and it performed abysmally. There wasn't any contention. Unlike hitler who needed to be ruthlessly character assassinated and all parties descending from the NSDAP banned, or for fucks sake even Stalin after he died, Franco required no state oppression to be moved away from because nobody really cared to have him back.
Furthermore, I consider that Israel must be destroyed