Quote Originally Posted by Reverend Joe View Post
I'm fairly sure that Churchill has fewer faults than Franco... such as not singlehandedly destroying a country.

And the Communists really don't apply to this conversation. Yes, they probably would have turned out just as bad, but then we would be having a discussion with someone about how the Communists weren't all that bad. Comparing the Spanish Communists to Franco is like comparing two clones of the devil with different shirts on.
Why don;t they apply? Their dominance of the '39 government is what sparked the military rebellion, without them and their brutal methods of control, such as the murders of priests, I doubt Franco could have pulled it off. It's all complementary and it is completely useless to discuss it otherwise.