Francisco Franco: The Rise of the Generalisimo 

That was heilarious!

LMAO LMAO LMAO!!!! That was funny as hell lol

Jawohl ✋

Anne frankly uncalled for.

And reichly so.

Krazy Katie right?!

Not existing?.. 😂

Really history is so easy and interesting, but too each its own.

No offense but libraries?🤔☺️

@@cheymilion3168 its only interresting if you can see the larger picture(some people either dont care or are inable to do just that) and or if you like fiction that actually happened, and if youre good at remembering (some people have shitty long germ memorys but are great at remembering bridges, which is why they are really good at math,geometry etc) , so, its totally fine, not everyone Can be good at it. Also, some people are audiovisual learners, which means taht books wont do that for them, read: me for example.

I have recently started educating myself on the Spanish civil war. Are you saying here that not only the Nazi's and Mussolini's fascists supported Franco's African troops to land at Algecirus (from Morocco) but also the Royal Navy ? Might this be why Franco never moved on Gibraltar ?

The morrocan spanish army was airlifted by the germans and italians the spanish navy stayed republican

Definitions of "Iniquity"change over the years, and meanings vary among people.

@@tomfrazier1103 ironically, it’s one of the few words that hasn’t changed its meaning in rather a long time - since it’s appearance in Latin as ‘iniquitas’ (where in fairness, it had the more specific meaning of injustice rather than malfeasance more generally), it has always had effectively the same connotations. I don’t know that no semantic change in 2000 years can be described as “changing its meaning regularly”.

Mr. McEwan, the left sees all humanity and their constructs as plastic, importantly languages. I've read rather much Communist texts in English.

novi *o* Thanks for the time stamps tho

El novio de la muerte.*

Yes thanks man I would love to see Salazar ( I'm Portuguese) and Franz Joseph

Você fala português? Eu penso-lo porque como escreveu a palavra “ideias”

Andrew Jackson would be amazing

@@viajesangel8673 falo e sou portugues

I think we’ll have to wait for Gorbachev as he’s still alive (at time of writing)

I know. One time I asked myself what happens to your property and money when you're sentenced to life imprisonment and he made a video about it a few days before it.

The Republic Of Ireland you’re so fake. Choke.

I hope you have a nice day

Michael Christian i SERIOUSLY sencond that !

@Owen K. Well, with that picture of Primo de Rivera I bet you are waiting for his biography xD

Basically any mediterranean family in that time

@@kaliyuga1476 Basically any Latin family any time

Which Benito? the Mexican?

@@jesseflores9087 Mussi

@@hyperion3145 Spain is Hispanic, but not Latin. They're not the same thing.

I hope you say that bc you don't know about post spanish civil war repression.

Anler Cabrera ...that's what he done, killed all of his opposition lmao dumbass

We can all agree he did horrible things, but at least he never planned for his regime to live past him. A dictator so Spain would never again have a dictator.

@Disposable Email 3 billion to be exact

*who Not knowing the difference between "who" and "whom" makes you look like an idiot

Yup

AftermathRV it has been a long war, but after the economic crisis we finally are trying to make paz.

Ratko Mladic well they are free to say whatever the want.

That's Simon's trademark,he usually mistakes dates,I Don't know if inadvertently,because he talks so fast,or to see if you're paying attention. Which one is it Simon?

There's a NETFLIX called Two Catalonias that is quite instructive if subtitles do not bother you.

I actually caught me off gaurd

Not really. He is not part of the Spanish Civil War.

His escape from a crumbling Reich in the closing days of the war to Spain was protracted and the stuff of Hollywood Well worth going into

You dont know about British fascists like Mosley .....they were more nazis than Hitler and the coward of Chamberlain , the alcoholic Winston great genius man

@@jdmortega9121 did you have a stroke writing this, just curious no offense intended

I don't think God and history go well together. I mean, when had they ever?

kill them all, god will know his own.

Great, so by his Catholic faith unless he went to reconciliation chances are he's laughing with Satan and by history he's regarded as an oppressive dictator. So, lose-lose I guess.

Cool history is now so lets dig him up.

The negative aspects of his legacy are till excoriated by the Left, because he won, and made Spain a functional anti-Communist state in the postwar years. Whenever a "Side" wins in a Civil War, resentments linger, just look at the U.S. The Left seeks to politicize everything, and Spain was free to be non-political for a while.

Agreed.

Was about to suggest the same

Salazar was another great. They should complete the Trifecta and do General Mannerheim as well.

and willem dafoe, the leader of republican Spain

Cant wait for salazar's episode, he was very interesting man, lot of people consider him faschist yet he strongly oposed hitler and musolini and their ideologies Also he was ecomomist by profession not a soldier or a politician like most dictators

Diogo Machado But had two main figures, Salazar and Caetano

@@honestguy7764 yes but if you say that the Spanish dictatorship started with the end of the civil war in 1939 it means that it lasted 36 years (1939-1975) and the portuguese one lasted 37 (with Salazar) from 1933 to 1970.

@@honestguy7764 I might be wrong but I think it is like that

Diogo Machado If I consider the Dictatorship, the Estado Novo, it begun in 1926, the it was constitucionalized in 1933 and ended up back in 1974. as per salazar, he was the head from 1932 to 1968, and Caetano from 68 to 1974. Franco, was Franco, he had no heir; Juan Carlos was no ideological heir of him

@@honestguy7764 i thought salazar was the head of state untill his death my mistake

The?? As in singular?

@@chefntoast I don't know what you mean.

@@victorcabanelas he's making a reference to the fact spain had many civil wars.

@@wolfensko nope, both were born here. But their parents came from Spain and France.

@@victorcabanelas i'm sure the user was asking in reference of the classic dumb saying "argentines are descendants of naz*s"

he even made an extra bio about Skorzeny I've seen yesterday

I love my parents very much as well, and I'm a conservative. I'll let you know when, 40 years later, I become the Caudillo of India.

0_0

Hah! As Franco once said.. "No bueno bro... No bueno.." O,o

Gian hol up

I came here to say the same thing. You beat me to it.

@11:00 He posts “September 1936” and moments later it says “2019”. It’s clearly a typo. Nevertheless nice catch man!

It's no joke. My family moved from the U.S. to Spain from 1974-76. I was a little kid but when Franco died we had one channel that showed him lying in state in his coffin live for one week straight. That is the only channel and all you saw 24/7!

They kept doing that bit because that's all the news kept talking about back at the time of Franco's death. Kind of like how when Anna Nicole Smith died the news media over covered it to where everyone was sick of hearing about it. I honestly expected the news to lead off with, "Anna Nicole Smith is still dead. For more on this, we go to..."

I would expect nothing more from someone with American edjucation

That was a joke from Stalin's time 30 million went to view his coffin...........to make sure he stayed dead lol

The New York based American "Old Left" was filled with U.S. veterans of the Sp. Civil War, Int'l Brigades. This was largely a Comintern project. Sen. McCarthy underestimated Communist activity in the U.S. when he made charges in the later '40s.

It reminds me of a scene from Fawlty Towers where someone asks where the Generalissimo was (refering to Basil Fawlty) and Manuel says "In Madrid!"

Chevy Chase. Saturday Night Live. Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.

That's what Chevy Chase WANTED YOU TO BELIEVE...

Sadly this goes over so many peoples heads

.... I get it.

I was hoping someone had commented this.

f1sh: even after that statement he's still dead. Maybe Garret Morris can yell it for us hard of hearing. France must smell terrible by now.

I asked months ago and he said that he didn't find him interesting enough.

@@thschnick wtf? That's dumb. What video?

Not interesting enough?!?! Wow

Looks like some DIRECT RULE is needed there.

*England lives and marches on*

The canary islands weren't (aren't) a colony

@@acusticamenteconvusional9936 yeah, but outside of continental Spain, such as Mellilla and Ceuta, soI just wanted to mention them, idk why

The canary islands were spanish before the world war.Same for ceuta and melilla.The only truh is for equatorial guinea.And sahara has been decolonized but invaded by morocco now.

The Canary Islands were never a colony but part of Spain.

@@corgismclean técnicamente si lo fueron jajaja. Vivían los guanches y les invadimos.

The International Brigade was made with all the communist from the west, An attempt from their governments to get rid of them.

Yeeees OMG yes

He actually fought with the P.O.U.M a Spanish marxist militia. He was denied entry to the International Brigades because he wasn't a member of the British communist party (and possibly because they distrusted his private school school background, class loyalties etc.)

Always remember he was a furious anticomunist!

George Orwell definitely should be featured.

@@honestguy7764 He was an anti Stalinist, he was a socialist.

It's pretty easy to take side against a dictator.

@@sayuas4293 i dislike Francos politics, but i like that he is Christian.

@Tyler Hopkins and what was before him my friend? Was the republican revolutionaries killing priests, raping nuns, and generally being terrible human beings not horrible?

@Tyler Hopkins Funny thing that, Franco wasn't a fascist. Nationalist, yes. Fascist no.

@Tyler Hopkins Fascist dictatorship bad. Communist dictatorship good.

I never found Chevy Chase funny.

Oh. My. Goodness! I was just thinking of this SNL tagline! 😂 #1975 - 2020 & is still dead.🤭

@@DonRamiro1 You probably don't smoke weed.

@@budwilliams6590 not anymore

Mannerheim and Franco had one thing in common: they both met Hitler personally and judged him as a madman, so they decided not to join his war

@@walterweiss7124 Finland fought on the same side with Germany during WW2, 1941-1944 and then Finland fought Germany from 1944-1945, after making a peace with CCCP. Hitler came to Finland to meet Mannerheim on his 75y birth day, beacouse Finland was an important ally and Hitler wanted to Make sure Finland would be one in future. You are right that Mannerheim did think little of Hitler and was anoid the whole time he was there.

@@Taisteluhamsteri Mannerheim stíll believed in democracy, which Hitler wanted to crush along with Communism. Mannerheim knew it was a trap

Yes, please!! I've been asking for this for such a long time!

Victor Herbert, Rimsky-Korsakov....

He finally did Wagner!

Yes, he understood. Far more successful than most. Too bad Mussolini didn't just ignore Hitler's Axis pact.

The role of Salazar (and Portugal) was ridiculous, man. He wasn't able to play a part because of the long alliance with the British. And he was a dictator and a murderer, don't you forgey it.

@@sobrevalorado you really can't be a dictator without being a murderer at some point. This is why I think 10 years in control of a nation is enough. Otherwise you get uneasy about the guy.

@@deadpilled2942 That's why democracy is superior, you don't have to kill the guy in office, his term will end at a fixed date and new elections held.

Always thought that catholics stick together... but Portugal sounds nice. The Caribbeans are always worth taking a holiday...

Not everyone is a soy bean

He saved Spain from Communism

@@John-ru4gz and he brought fascism…

@@sam_9228 Franco was arguably not a fascist.

@@sam_9228he was a falangist, it was more fascist in its early years but from the 1950s onwards it’s more of a conservative authoritarianism

LMAO.

Said Toshimaru Apparently that was actually an accident, with various witnesses saying different things. I just don't know what reason Juan Carlos would have to kill his brother.....

@@Edmonton-of2ec Yeah, it was an accident.

Said Toshimaru I heard another version where Juan Carlos was cleaning the gun and it accidentally went off, or someone hit him with the door to the room and he was holding the gun, winced, and accidentally pulled the trigger. I also heard said gun was later thrown in the ocean

@@Edmonton-of2ec There are, as you say, many versions. I believe it was an accident, but still, Franco's regime covered it up, so will never know what really happened.

He was probably too busy shooting Elephants.

Mussolini was shot not hanged

Musolini was shot, not hanged.

@@overlord5068 That's true. When he was hanged up from a gas station he was already dead. But they did not give him a treatment such as franco's.

@Kiezer Soze I see your point. Everyone must have been juzged for their crimes.

Philippe Pétain just went up now

The Fascist Trinity is finally done

On the good side or the bad?

he was old and broken up even if their was power he would have died with in the year also at that point I think he was just done he didn't want to go

@@diegogomez2052 I hope he’s burning in hell

The thing is, his death was sadly needed. The unfortunate death of Rivera rallied the nationalists and gave them a major justification to wage war. Although Rivera would’ve been a better leader, his death paced the way for the nationalists

Viva Primo DeRivera.

@@TheLordNovo PdR most likely wouldn't have taken Chill Pills like Franco did in the early 40s, they probably would've joined the axis and get rekt

Nils Wettlin Rivera wouldn’t have joined the axis. He would’ve provided moral support and maybe weapons, but that’s it. No official joining. There’s no way he would’ve been able to stay in power by joining a global war the year that the civil war ended

X_HolyTemplar_ X not to mention the fact he had blatant goals antithetical to Hitlers. Most likely he does what Franco did or even jobs the allies in exchange for Morocco.

@@venga3 newly communist Russia did send aid successfully although it was mostly outdated equipment

Yep, definitely #1 Though 4 and 5 were not bad as reserves 😁

but the guy who wrote the best stories about the civil war was still Hemingway

I highly recommend “mine were of trouble”, it is written by a British volunteer for the nationalists.

@@mj6463 Thank you. I'll check it out.

@@nickjitsu of course!

Probably to small a sub genre in Irish history, maybe a whole episode on one of Simon's other channels about the history of Irish mercenaries? Not sure if mercenaries is a fair way to describe them as I don't know much about it but couldn't think of any other term 😅

me haha fair enough mate

So maybe add the Irish who fought alongside the Mexicans vs the Americans

@@Chronosmaster002 good idea

Notice. The Irish glr there asses in to adout every fight there ever was.....

I live in Hawaii. My parents are Marcos supporters they envy him to death. I don’t, in fact I’m indifferent. But there are a lot of Marcos supporters in Hawaii. Especially since most of them are Ilocanos

Considering the Communist insurgency is still alive in the Philippines....LOL

More like "a kleptocratic dictator who murdered his political enemies and drained the nation's coffers"

I lived in Hawaii from 1990 when the push & pull of where his corpse should go was going on. Imelda and her shoes were the butt of jokes by young Filipinos and Americanos. Some middle aged Ilocanos thought he was a swell fella. Eventually Imelda went back, and maybe his corpse.

Honestly his wife was worse and when she took over when he got sick she started killing people which caused the people to rise up

yeah it can be difficult to find an unbiased story about Franco here in Spain 😅

Spain’s first astronaut!

I didn't like any. His own are the best.

Owen K. Joseantonio was a hero, an idealist. Can you read in Spanish? Where a you from?

Owen K. I have a spare copy of its works, but in spanish

'like a union or a speech or rall' ~~~ communist.

@@trollpolice Yes, there were communists, but also people who wanted, y'know, human rights and democracy.

Franco was actually (and I cannot stress this bit enough) *comparatively* light as a dictator. He was more authoritarian then totalitarian. I think his lack of totally trying to secure Spain, which in retrospect would not have been possible, it why the transition to democracy went as smoothly as it did

@@noahsherwood2445 There were absolutely human rights in Spain, it was even noted that as the war came to a close, they began to ignore minorities and intellectuals (Franco refused to believe he was "soft", though). Also, democracy is not automatically a good thing. The US at the time is a good example. Keep in mind that these people who "wanted democracy" also wanted to continue the Civil War (some were also backed by the Soviets and US), NOBODY would want to keep the enemy they just defeated in their country while they're still opposed to them.

thats a blatant lie, both Salazar and Franco were avid anti-communists and anti-left, thats literally it, there were never any other orders given to supress something other than the threat of communist uprising, Franco literally fought agaisnt them and Portugal got lucky and managed to avoid civil war and proceeded to prevent the slight chance of that happening, every single order given for dispersion was directed at the threat of communist radical partizans and guerrillas that was present at the time and still is to this day in the iberian peninsula, the only difference is that the communists and the radical left eventually came to power through subversive means after both Salazar and Franco left. Keep your falsehoods for yourself please, and now for some actual facts, My grandfather was a radical communist in the 50´s and 60´s here in Portugal, even he, said that Salazar wasnt a dictator and a fascist, he simply persecuted communism and radical leftisms cuz that was the greatest threat to europe at the time and because every one saw what happened to every single country that became communist, not to mention that most people who actually lived here were in favor of both Salazar and Franco given that Portugal and Spain are traditionally conservative christian countries and only through the globalization of europe have things tilted towards other values. So, No, you are VERY wrong

Alfred the Great would be a good one.

Whic documentary?

I agree

As an American, I kept feeling I needed a Table of organization, but sometimes it seemed you needed a new one each week.

AlvWaynwood Another anti-commie hero who saved Spain from their grasp

@@GregBrownsWorldORacing look. Franco was either going to take Spain, or Germany wouls have, then America would've put in Franco because there's no way in hell America was going to allow the Mediterranean be Communist during the cold war

Exacto

Well that would make somebody dislike him.

@Levis. H Take a look at the 'anarchists' and how they functioned during the civil war (obv. not anarchistic, but communal). They actually got some good economic track records and would have been a great option, had the republics side not crashed them. :/

@@Pirate3World they wouldn't have beaten a battle hardened nationalist army, and either way they couldn't have run Spain as a whole seeing as they were mainly in Catalonia away from the advancing nationalist forces

Wow, me imagino las historias que debió tener tu abuela. Una mujer valiente sin lugar a dudas. Un abrazo desde Chile, acá igual mi familia sufrió a manos de un dictador, el Burro Pinochet.

Franco was a Moorish fifth columnist. One of the greatest traitors to the Spanish people in their history.