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Francisco Franco - Biography of a Spanish General
Francisco Franco - Biography of a Spanish General
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He was known to many as a Spanish dictator and general who ruled Spain from 1939 to 1975 when he died. He was best known as Francisco Franco… few new him as Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco Bahamonde.
In 1939 Francisco Franco using the Nationalist forces overthrew the existing Spanish democratic republic.
He’s arguably the most successful European dictator of the 20th Century, managing to survive contemporaries Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini by three decades, form strategic alliances with the West at the height of the Cold War and ensure both his nation’s economy and political stability in the aftermath of his reign. However, this track record of success is continually marred by his record of human rights abuses, especially during the early years of his reign during the 1940s. Those abuses have become so notorious that, in 2007, the Spanish government began a program of removing all public references to Franco, a campaign that is comparable to the “deStalinization” program begun by Nikita Khrushchev in the aftermath of Joseph Stalin’s death in 1953.
In 1939 Francisco Franco using the Nationalist forces overthrew the existing Spanish democratic republic.
He’s arguably the most successful European dictator of the 20th Century, managing to survive contemporaries Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini by three decades, form strategic alliances with the West at the height of the Cold War and ensure both his nation’s economy and political stability in the aftermath of his reign. However, this track record of success is continually marred by his record of human rights abuses, especially during the early years of his reign during the 1940s. Those abuses have become so notorious that, in 2007, the Spanish government began a program of removing all public references to Franco, a campaign that is comparable to the “deStalinization” program begun by Nikita Khrushchev in the aftermath of Joseph Stalin’s death in 1953.