Very true. At least, that's how we learned / were taught in school.. I'm sure the perception would probably be different if you asked (any) someone who studied (and graduated as Master of) Political Science (or just studied ^PS^) Of course, schools can't teach you everything, just point at the key events, and maybe guide one to the right direction; but after I had a chat with some friends we all came to the same conclusion - all of us had a gap in what we knew and had learned at school from Hannibal to the conquistadors and up till the end of the civil war.. From there on, the next thing we knew was that it'd become a favourite for package tours to Costa del Sol, the Canary Islands or Ibiza.. 😎 I've filled the gap in my education since then and have a decent understanding on the post-war events and modern history, and I'm sure most people want to learn and to better understand the world that we live in, and gain this knowledge during the growing old bit.. 🧐 Cheers & Stay safe out there!

@@yaragi Schools apparently have a hard time teaching History - at least prior to university. Over here in Quebec our history classes (when I was in school 20 years ago) consisted of a very generic World History class that spent too much time on Prehistory (go figure) and didn't have time to reach the 20th century before the year ended... ...And another one two years later based on Quebec/Canada history, which focused solely on how the French lost the 7 years war, how the Louis Riel rebellion in Manitoba was crushed and the how man was hanged by the English (without providing context for his treasonous actions), The Durham report which criticized the French in Quebec, the failed "Patriotes" rebellion in 1838 and the subsequent hanging of the leaders in 1839 (while omitting to mention that Anglos had their own rebellion a year earlier and that Anglos participated actively in the 1838 one) ...and the abuse that the early Canadian government imposed on the Indians. In short, that history class was purpose-built for young "Québécois" to hate the "Anglos"

Because of guilt, wrkniw we should have removed Franco with the other fascists but we left him in power,

@@BattlestarZenobia 1. Who is we? 2. How for should you go to remove him? 3. What practical reason was there to remove him?

Salokin this other channel’s series on Spanish Morocco might interest you it talks a lot about that time period: kzfaq.info/sun/PLlnEcGrq0PFa0Wkj3uU4yTqeaCLXBK1Ou

Hard to belive that after ww2 Argentina was one of the richest countries in the world

That's where dictatorship gets you

@@daddy_1453 Argentina is THE west dumbass

@@daddy_1453 or that's what the Great Depression and corruption gets you But that's way too easy of an answer to the internet

@@mangonel exactly that's what i say, that's what dictatorship GETS YOU

Disapointed they didnt mention Portugal in which was alrrady trying to being Spain in and was one of the founding members of NATO (the only non democratic member of NATO), Portugal was essencial in some aspects for Spain be normalized in the international community.

@@gordusmaximus4990 Greece and Turkey had their periods of authoritarian rule too though.

@@tylerbozinovski4624 yes, but Portugal was the founding member of NATO with fascist vibes, but that point (specially with fascism not being nice anymore) a authoritarian conservative right wing dictatorship.

They already said they were going to do it at some point.

Rhodesia and South Africa should be the next

Zaragoza?

Rota Spain has that Navy base built when Franco opened up to the West. I got a buddy stationed out there now. He says Spain is an amazing country to be in.

@@enriquepes2649 Caesaraugusta

The Royal Oaks (El Encinar de los Reyes)?

@@kaijudude_ alot of spanish cities are really ugly compared to alot of northern western european ones

Exactly...

I think this is partly covered in the Italy episode, but I'm not sure.

As a triestino (citizen of Trieste) I agree.

Already done

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@@ShubhamMishrabro Propaganda by the Francoists who forced themselves into power. It should say Nazi's NO since Franco was aided and best friends with Hitler

@@asturiasceltic3183 huh

@@asturiasceltic3183 Hitler hated Franco, he literally said to Mussolini he'd rather have his teeth pulled out than meet him again.

Hitler gave Franco a Nazi flag that Franco has in his home. Franco supplied Hitler with the materials from Galician mines for the tanks. Franco allowed Hitler to bomb Basqueland. Franco was in communication with Hitler during WWII and gave him a list of all jews in Spain for the "final solution." Just google all the photos of Franco with Hitler shaking hands, meeting with each and Franco doing the Nazi salute that the Nationalists still do TO THIS DAY

Still is. New name, same shit but even worse government. Muerte a amlo

@oh_man 15 diaz did some good to the state :/

@oh_man 15 they call it perfect in Mexico, because it was a stealthy dictatorship with fraudulent elections posing as a democracy. To give an example, during those 70 years of "perfect" dictatorship, the 1976 election was won with 100% of votes... Complete BS.

@oh_man 15 yep miraculously

O wow that’s why they are rich with people not wanting to leave their beloved country

not annoyed by requests at all, to be honest! and thank you for the suggestion

@@TheColdWarTV Hi. So you like suggestions? Ok Can you do nationalist Salazer Portugal as well please? Thanks.

May be if UK was about to lose and with a short war ahead. Remember US was not at war at that time. After Battle of Britain it was obvious that It was going to be a long war, 0% possibilities of Spain joining any side, defeat granted.

@@enriquepes2649 .... Franco was a smart man. He recognized the obvious

Honestly, I don’t think Germany would have accepted Spain as a military ally even if Franco had offered. I can see how the Prussian tradition would see Spain more as a liability than an ally from a military perspective. I mean, the only significant “victory” the military tradition Franco represented, literally in centuries, had been against their own (manly) unarmed civilian population... and they only because Germany and Italy helped.

@@javiermesa-martinez8731 The republicans and communists weren't unarmed...

@@Idahoguy10157 true, just google Churchill's opinion on Franco. He also refused Lyndon B. Johnson invitation to intervene in Vietnam 😂😂😂😂

Ending in the Cambodian-Vietnamese War

Khmer Rouge is Vietcong’s trash.

gamer rouge

good. it still takes some bull

We should have sent allied forces to unseat that Fascist basted!

@@BattlestarZenobia yes, that would have been apreciated. And consideeing the dismal conditions of the economy and army, it would had fallen easyly enough.

another failure by communists, socialists and anarchists

@@therecusantluddite1133 a failure again due to a lack of moral fibre on the part of democracies that should have united against Franco

It was intentional! ;)

That last part is wrong. Spain launched a covert operation in which medical and support personnel were sent to assist American and South Vietnamese forces, on the condition that they stay unofficial.

Spain also created under the rule of Primo de Rivera the company CAMPSA: a fuel refining and distribution monopoly that annoyed the 'Seven Sisters' quite a lot, till the fall of the Monarchy in 1931...

I heard Franco say that the “Vietnamese were more nationalist than communists”

@@MrFeynmanDiagram CAMPSA still exist on Spain

@@latifithetruegoat9094 CAMPSA is nowdays practically disolved in REPSOL and smaller companies (CLH, etc)

Franco's regime gave Hitler a list of all Jews for the "final solution." He is also recorded at rallies saying anti-semitic things. Franco helped save many Nazi war criminals by having them go through Spain into Latin America

Latin oriented? Spain as Italy is a Latin country, so here you are

Yes I've often thought of how Mussolini is really the big imbecile of World War Two, he easily could have taken the Franco, Salazar, Peron route and sort of played both sides and come out of the war with Italy basically intact and himself in power for another couple of decades likely.

If Mussolini had done that, no Italians would have died in WW2 and lots of lives would have been spared but Italy (my country) would have gotten another thirty years of fascism... No thank you.

@@Thaumazo83 Mussolini should have gone Franco's way if he knew what was best for him, but it's a good thing he didn't ^^

@@ArkadiBolschek I wholeheartedly agree with what you write

Just imagine, we could've had 80 year old Mussolini still shuffling around in the 1960s.

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Play from playlist. Autoplay there

Remember that the channel is going through the Cold War in roughly chronological order. There's still a lot of ground to cover before Franco's death.

By the time of Franco’s death Spain was already integrated back into the international community and was firmly in the US sphere. His death didn’t really matter that much at that point, but if it had happened sooner then maybe it would’ve had a greater impact on Spain’s role in the Cold War.

Or the Non-Alligned movement

@@javiermesa-martinez8731 Spain had to pick a side in their position.If they stayed neutral than Commies and capitalists will come after them. Imagine being sanctioned by Ussr and USA

Franco as a person was an incredibly unremarkable individual. The only notable thing about him, and the chief reason for his successs, was his staunch commitment to his own interests over everything else.

@@ArkadiBolschek---Maybe or maybe not.

@@brokenbridge6316 The point is, if they're going to make special episodes on individual protagonists of the Cold War, there are plenty of people more interesting (and more relevant) than Franco.

@@ArkadiBolschek Yes, can’t wait for the communist perspective… You are a joke.

@@z1ll4jr53 What do you expect from a commie

Mongolia continued being a close Soviet ally throughout the Cold war. Rather boring...

Hitler was Franco's ally during the the Spanish Civil War. There are photos of them being all lovey dovey to each other on Google. Hitler even gave Franco a Nazi flag that Franco proudly displayed in his home. Also, Franco gave Hitler a list of all Jews in Spain for the "Final Solution."

@@asturiasceltic3183 "The Jewish people and the State of Israel remember the humanitarian attitude adopted by Spain during the Hitler era, when they gave aid and protection to many victims of Nazism." - Golda Meir, former Prime Minister of Israel and Minister of Foreign Affairs (Debate in the Israeli Parliament, Knesset,on February 10, 1959). "Franco's Spain was an important refuge for Jews who risked coming, escaping from the France of liberty, fraternity and equality. I don't want to defend Franco, but in World War II many Jews were saved in Spain and to ignore him is to ignore history." - Israel Singer, President of the World Jewish Congress (Interview in El Mundo,December 17, 2005). "Jewish power was not able to change Roosevelt's policy toward Jews during World War II. The only country in Europe that really lent a hand to the Jews was a country in which there was no Jewish influence: Spain, which saved more Jews than all democracies combined." - Schlomo Ben Ami, Israeli Foreign Minister and Israel's Ambassador to Spain (Statements to the magazine Época in 1991). "I have evidence that the Spanish Head of State, Francisco Franco,saved more than sixty thousand Jews during World War II. It is high time that someone thanked Franco for it. (Speaking to Newsweek magazine in February 1970.)" Chaim Lipschitz, author of 'Franco, Spain, the Jews and the Holocaust'. "Generalissimo Francisco Franco, Head of the Spanish State, died on November 20, 1975. Regardless of how history judges him, what is certain is that in Jewish history he will occupy a special position. In contrast to England, which closed the borders of Palestine to Jews fleeing Nazism and destruction, and in contrast to democratic Switzerland which returned to Nazi terror the Jews who came knocking on its doors for help, Spain opened its border with occupied France, admitting all refugees, without distinction of religion or race. Professor Haim Avni of the Hebrew University, who has spent years studying the subject, has concluded that a total of at least 40,000 Jews were saved, lives that were saved from going to the German gas chambers, either directly through the Spanish interventions of their diplomatic representatives. or thanks to Spain's opening its borders" - The American Sephardic Association.

@@Isidore_de_Sevilla Look up "Jewish Archive" under Franco. Franco worked with Heinrich Himler and Franco was heard himself to use slurs against Jews during speech. Your little post is from Franco's own little pamphlet "Jews in Spain." Keep suckling on Franco's propaganda and teeth and parroting.

@@asturiasceltic3183 Half of those quotations were made after Franco's death and they're all from Jewish people living outside of Spain including high ranking officials from Israel... And you're telling me that Franco posthumously published a pamphlet which includes these quotes which were made after his death? I'll refrain from calling you an idiot or a lunatic as I don't know you and we all make mistakes... but I'm certain this isn't your brightest moment.

@@Isidore_de_Sevilla NO they weren't. Franco compiled the archive himself. And anything said afterwards just proves how terrified they were of that short, fat tyranical monster

the allies were already preparing for a war against the soviet union since it invaded finland until hitler prevented that and instead made the war all against him. if hitler for some reason ignored the whole revanchism thing and the lebansraum shit then WW2 would certainly be interesting with a germany being a third party

In many ways, Taiwan's position during the Cold War remains unchanged today. I hope Taiwan continues to exist for centuries to come.

@@TheKrieg45 thank you dude, Chinese Communist Party thinks the Cross-Strait Split is still the extension of Chinese Civil War. if Taiwan Survives, the Liberal value established by the US could hold on in Indo-Pacific Region. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

@@dkwlin4351 Together with South Korea the Philippines and Japan

taiwan, (true story) the national socialists of china, mainland china, the communists of china.

@@joao_1986 Yes!!!! I recommend Host can introduce these figures. Taiwan under Chiang Kai-Shek, South Korea under Park Chung-Hee and Philippines under Ferdinand Marcos were also US anti-Communist Dictatorial Allies 🇵🇭🇹🇼🇰🇷🇺🇸 Actually, Junta of Thailand and South Vietnam were also too.

no no...he is still alive in this episode. Franco will be valiantly holding on in his fight to remain dead in later episodes

I wouldn't talk about fascism for franco

It's curious the way some comments disappear 😅😂😂😂😂😂

@@MrFeynmanDiagram Verrry curious

Oh, it's the same irony Wall Street had while making good money in Nazi Germany, you know: Standard Oil, IG Farben, General Electric, General Motors and all that... These factories were rarely affected by British or American bombardments, it's verrry curios 😂😂😂

@@MrFeynmanDiagram How is that curious? There wasn't any embargoes or sanctions, so companies could sell with whom they wish. Hell, it was US industries that helped the USSR with its manufacturing miracle by selling to them as well despite the US being "anti-Communist". Wow, it's almost like...a country's government and specific individuals can have differing views. Did you also know that Americans fought for and against Francoist Spain in the Spanish Civil War? :D

Franco is valiantly holding on in his fight to remain dead.

@@javiermesa-martinez8731 Stalin had Spain . That’s what the war was about .

@@javiermesa-martinez8731 he had control of the 2nd republic. Read George Orwell .

@@javiermesa-martinez8731 he was there supporting the communist. And wrote what happened.

@@javiermesa-martinez8731 and the republicans where communist . I can’t sit here and argue. People out there. Read George Orwell letters and notes and learn the truth .

@@javiermesa-martinez8731 hi iam also spanish the republic was a puppet thats why many intelectuals like for example Unamuno swap sides cut the cope Javier

'The level' of that era is given by the fact that Stalin's Soviet Union was accepted as member of UN (with a essentially fake Constitution) while Spain was rejected, though later on US reconsidered it's decision.

No, it wasn't. 1984 was about Franco and his friend Hitler. The man in my avatar is North Spaniard journalist who knew Orwell and had discussions with him about his plans for 1984

@@asturiasceltic3183 hahah !! You better go read Orwell’s notes and letters. He’s clear on his mistake siding with the communist .

@@theomegaman2181984 was about Franco and he does not say 1984 was about Spanish Communism. Such a thing doesn't even exist. . Too bad you never knew him and are trying to speak for him

@@asturiasceltic3183 oh get lost . You obviously don’t know anything g about the 2nd republic .

@@theomegaman218 My family lived it. You obviously are just talking bullshit and a failure.

It's so ridiculous how they all group the nationalist as Nazi sympathizers or Fascist when those two groups were a small minority among the right wingers.

@@biggusdickus819 it’s exactly the same way Mussolini and Hitler seized power right wing groups working with fascists when they really should have known better

@@BattlestarZenobia So they should’ve sided with commies lmao.The enemy of my enemy is my friend

@@BattlestarZenobia Well the nazis were a little more Crazy then the other fascist expected

...Y CIENCIA.

@@ArkadiBolschek subcampeón 1939 🥈

@juanancriadillas Imagínate lo que habríamos hecho, y dónde estaríamos ahora, si nos hubiéramos librado de tres años de guerra y cuarenta de dictadura...

@@ArkadiBolschek pobres y medio muertos como Europa del este

More like: "that weird spanish guy is still asking to add him on instagram, let me add him so that he might leave me alone"

@A Fels ?? What country did it invade? Before you say, "Angola," I would ask you to compare it to the American intervention in South Vietnam.

@A Fels Oh man. South Vietnam would have never even existed without our own invasion.

Soviet Union has always been the Boogeyman before and after Hitler

Enemy of my enemy...

@@samuelgordino ...is also my enemy

I think it was Patton who said that

@@luismdgr whoops my bad, I'll change that now ty

FDR supported the Republic. Many Brits like Orwell supported the Republic

Always good for the world when communist die 🤗

Yeah, I am puzzled by this as well.

They didn't go as far as supporting to Mafia, they went much much further then that, giving Nazis their blessing

@@andrewparker1622 Yeah-yeah, the same lies, over and over...

@@jurisprudens Lies by the church or by me? Because there's pretty clesr evidence of Vatican support of the Nazis

@@andrewparker1622 What evidence? ))) Pius XII accepted more than 4000 Jewish refugees in Roman convents. He participated in secret negotiations on staging a coup against Hitler. Hundreds of Catholic clergy were persecuted by Nazis both before and during the war. The preceding Pope, Pius XI, issued a special encyclical in German in 1937, Mit brenender Sorge, addressing his anxieties on the developments in Germany. All these are hard facts, with evidence and documents. ;))))

@@jurisprudens Lets see now. The German Centre Party voting for Hitler's Enabling Act The Reichskoncordat between the Nazis and Vatican Plus XII frequently trying to work with the Nazis. Franz von Papen's support for Hitler You're obviously a Catholic unable to accept your religion is responsible for so many deaths

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@Humanity Galatica that sounds about right for a political person. I want to learn about everyday life during the time in that place. Farmers, urban workers, teachers, average people.

I think she got a rather realistic impression. It's obvious that I'm not a communist or care about politics... 😅😂😂😂

@@BaltimoresBerzerker After they were done with the purges, it probably was not horrifying, since that's when Spain experienced their economic miracle and became more or less on par with the developed nations of the world.

The state had largely liberalized by the 1970s. In the 1930s - early 1960s it was a poverty ridden hell hole.

So... a fascistic theocrat? That's still a fascist

@@sgtpetergreen Most people, nations and empires prior to the 20th century would be considered "fascist" by that definition. Maybe Liberalism/Communism should be opposed? Don't want to submit to Satanic Globalism? Fascist!

@@Feanor1169 "most nations would be considered fascist by that definition" Yes.

So Catholics comit murderings. How...Catholic 🙄

@@ns7023 Communists aren't people.

By saving been an ally of the Axis, and being a brutal military dictatorship.

No, he just choose the prince that will become king after his death.

@@Marko_184 He put Juan Carlos back in his rightful line of succession.

Also, to call it a "referendum" is a bit of an strech. It was just a mockery to gain some sort of legitimacy.