Spain is attempting to whitewash the legacy of Francisco Franco by exhuming his remains from the Valley of the Fallen – but hundreds turn out to protest:
Hundreds of people gathered on Sunday at the Valley of the Fallen to protest the Spanish government’s plans to remove the remains of former Spanish dictator Francisco Franco from the controversial monument north of Madrid.
Protesters traveled from across Spain to attend Sunday’s protest, chanting slogans such as: “Long live Spain;” “Don’t touch the Valley;” and “Franco, Franco, Franco!” outside the basilica that holds Franco’s tomb.
Cars began pulling up to the Valley of the Fallen from 9am onward to attend the demonstration. “We have come to say goodbye to Franco,” said Zaqueo Echeverría, a 27-year-old who traveled with his pregnant wife and three children from Segovia. Pilar Gutiérrez, the president of Movement for Spain, which organized the protest said: “Franco isn’t dead. Anyone who dies in Christ is not dead.”
The 13.6-square kilometer Valley of the Fallen site remains hotly contested in a country that is still struggling to come to terms with the legacy of the fascist dictatorship of Franco, who was the Spanish head of state from the end of the Civil War in 1939 to his death in 1975.
The exhumation of Franco’s body has nothing to do with “reconciliation”, as the Left would have us believe; rather, it is about literally erasing a major – and popular – part of Spain’s history.
The last thing the liberals want is young Spaniards looking into the real history of Franco’s “fascism” in Spain and finding out that it wasn’t exactly the “evil” that they’ve been taught. In fact, it was the murderous communists who were the real butchers of the Civil War, and it’s their true nature that needs to be whitewashed.
It is shocking how biased coverage of the Spanish Civil War is here in England. It seems that most of the historians and commentators favour the Republicans as the Good Guys and the Nationalists as the evil Fascists. Although It is hard not to have some initial romantic feelings for the Republican International Brigades when men such as Laurie Lee and George Orwell fought for them.
However when you look at the time line of the conflict you start to understand that Leftist elements were attacking the Church from as early as 1931 with Anti-Clerical policies, destruction of Church property and so on. And in 1934 several score of priests were summarily executed. By 1936 prior to the coup it is reported that many churches were arson attacked and conservative figures were being assasinated. By the Summer when the conflict was in tain the Red Terror deliberatley targeted and killed thousands of Priests and nuns.
These days we don’t tend to hear much about these killings , those murders are squeezed out of awareness by a relentless focus on Nazi Germany and all the discriminatory laws and intimidation of Jews. You’d be forgiven for thinking that the rise to power of Hitler was the only bad thing going on during this decade. I think if you ask the average person they’d know nothing about a hatred that clear targeted Christianity in 1930s Europe. In contrast to that which they never stop talking about and with increasingly incessant focus.
Anyway I was interested to know what role the Jews may have played in supporting the Republican side. I found an extensive article at the Jewish Virtual Library that waxes lyrical about the contribution of Jews to the International Brigades. Of course I don’t have proof that Jews participated in any atrocities, but they were a big component of a force that would’ve known it was fighting alongside those that were attacking the Church. Pictures of priest killings appeared in the international press. So they couldn’t have been ignorant that the Church and those that were loyal to it were a target.
Anyway according to JVL at least a quarter of the fighters that went to Spain were Jewish with the author of the article actually believing it was probably a higher figure. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jews-who-served-in-the-international-brigade-in-the-spanish-civil-war
Long before the coup, evidence is clear that the Leftists were trying to trigger a revolution on the Iberian penisula. Therefore again we have the situation of Jews being overly represented in the ranks of those trying to bring about a revolution and a break down of a society.
Having taken up arms in Spain some were later recorded as murdered by the Nazis or Holocaust survivors. Which doesn’t seem appropriate given that shortly before they had been able to travel with the purpose of killing others.
Of course, the JVL sees the Jews that traveled there as a courageously struggling against Fascists and Anti-semites. Ironically later during the Second World War Neutral Spain was one of the
most compliant in assisting Jews obtain refuge. There was purportedly little anti-semitism and around 35000 Jews were able to exit through the Country despite Franco’s known aversion to Zionism and Judeo-masonic groups.
Aware of the Jewish role in Spain I think it is understandable, although they were unconscionably cruel in their behaviour, that the Germans may have been very fearful of what some Jews may have been capable of doing to them.
Having said that I wouldn’t want to claim that all Jews, not even all of those that travelled to Spain, were filled with pure hatred for Nationalists and Traditionalists. Gertrude Stein the Jewish writer publically endorsed General Franco during the war. As did Evlyn Waugh, JR Tolkein, and Hilaire Belloc among others.
After WWII, the Spanish economy experienced a level of prosperity under Franco that Spain has never seen since his death. He has loyal followers to this day because there still are Spaniards who know the truth–that had it not been for Franco, Spain would have been reduced to moral and economic rubble under communist rule.
Always the same jewish tactic of rewriting our histories and defacing our statues…