In response to this by Bopa, in another thread:

Uhuh, you think the Catholic peasants of Spain should have gone along with the vehemently anti-Catholic Communists instead? Yeah they really sorted Russia out, what a load...

It was not a much of choice was it? Fascists or Communists?
Care to start up another thread about the civil war in Spain? I would be glad to discuss the Catholocism of Franco with you
....which I believe is nonsense. The fascists didn't have to choose fascism, they choose it because they supported it, end of story. Democracy was already invented, people knew about it, they could've stood up and fought for it instead of supporting loonies. But they were loonies themselves, and as such they supported the loonie.

Stop making excuses for dictators. Franco didn't choose to become a murdering sadist because he had no other choice, he became a murdering sadist because he was one. He could've chosen devote his life to the defense of freedom. He did not. He choose to devote himself to tyranny. There is nothing good about such men.