The Skeletons of Spain’s Fascist Past 

thats gotta be my favourite brand of fascist, the sniveling pathetic coward that cant even actually admit to the things the regimes he stands for verifiably did. but atleast there in the end he was honest for once. "im no historian, in fact i have absolutely zero clue about history whatsoever. i am a politician". yeah exactly.

they don't believe in anything, they just roll with whatever works, like how franco banned the fascist salute after nazi germany fell

And it's not even relevant. Like why should they be historians lmfao? Historians teach us about whay happened, so that not every one has to be one, and the work historians do is spread widely throughout society. I really don't understa d why these fascist dumbasses think you need to be a historian to know about the past

Everything a fascist says is strategic.

​@@thug588says the people who lost the war

All legitimate points

The genocide deniers spiel: "It did not happen, , it was faked, yes it did happen but there were much less dead than what people reported, yes it did happen and they deserved it". That's how genocide deniers always go.

​@@gamerdrew2761no it isn't. You literally saw the evidence and witnesses in this video.

​@@gamerdrew2761is your brain smooth

Talking about Stalin 's allies

Condolences on your Grandfather's disappearance. May the memory of your living Grandfather always be a blessing. 🌹🕊🕯

@@carlettesouthern-robert2992 he shouldn't have been supporting communism

My condolences from another Washingtonian

Wow!

*Germans

Journalist didn't even give him an opportunity to respond to his questions. He came at him like it was a debate, not an interview, and heavily edited on top of that. No wonder vice is going bankrupt, they don't care about doing proper journalism or offering all sides an equal voice, they just want to push a narrative. Good riddance to vice news.

@@gamerdrew2761Fascists don’t deserve any good faith debate. They only deserve an early grave.

not all reporters are cowards thankfully.

​@@AnswersonapostcardThis isn't the BBC and nobody was impartial when it came to the Nazis after the first few years. Bad people and bad ideas need to be challenged. He did a fantastic and brave job.

@@Answersonapostcard Reporters are supposed to report facts, not just let people make whatever claims they want.

History repeats himself over and over again. Governes don't care for victims.

Antifascist action.

US conservatives are no better. They deny the atrocities they committed in the past (slavery, genociding the native population, weaponizing the AIDS epidemic against gay people, etc) so that they can get away with it again. They've always been cancer to society.

@@thazfffi hate to be the one that tells you, but Franco is dead lol. Move on you facist

@@thazfff mira mama, un mono

Followed by Basque separatists doing likewise.

That is natural, because Germany had a more recent dictatorship than Spain (until 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall). So Germany entered the community of democratic countries only after East Germany ceased to exist, that is more than a decade after Spain became democratic in the 70’s.

Spain,Portugal, Germany.... we went from kings to dictators to whatever we have today.

You must be American then. I'm pretty sure that most people in Europe are painfully aware that Spain, Portugal, Greece plus all of Central and Eastern Europe (except Austria) were brutal authoritarian regimes until relatively recently. And yes, that includes part of Germany.

@@pachero great point.

Fas¢i$m is *[BASED]* LOL

@@AbuBased731 no

@@mytruecrimelibrary Ja

wow, it's funny how similar fascism and communism is. Just literally changing the first word to communism and it'll still work

@@GameFuMaster neither political party is communist but Maga is fascist.

Everything they say is strategic, with the aim of getting them more power. They'll deny the sunrise, if necessary.

Narcissists and Psychopaths always use projective defense mechanisms and the shifting of object. Masters of playing the ultimate victim.

It's not really about other people to them. It's more about their own affairs. I've been around people like this for years. What I've noticed is they can't process information or address anything that isn't self-serving to them. They can't admit any fault on their part. But they will be quick to blame somebody else. Usually intellectuals or whistleblowers. Because real world problems are not a priority to them. It's an "inconvenience."

Why would they admit to their own crimes?, the fascist guy itself at the end event admit it at the end by saying " they should be grateful, we save them from the soviets " its their narrative and they will not chnage because in their mind everything its acceptable because it prevented that imaginary scenario

Have you not read books like George Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia"? Tens of thousands including priests and nuns were murdered by Republican forces.

While you were sticking up for Stalin

​@@eedragonrStating objective truth is not political.

@@hakanbrakankrakan it is historical objective truth

Did you think then, that maybe he being a university professor and spaniard he knew more than you? Of course not, why use your brain if you can just say he is a fascist.

​@@hakanbrakankrakanpolitical may be me listening to the plans of a big Spanish mixed family organizing a big holidays family fiesta with paella near the swimming pool under the motto "The English are not the friends of the Spaniards" "they don't learn the language, they don't integrate".

Thank you for sharing. Such a shame some bad people get such a voice now with the internet and social media. Comments like yours are imperative.

Hey, i think you might be talking about "Plaça de Sant Felip Neri". A lot of people think those marks are from firing squads, but actually it's from a bomb fired from a plane. Those holes are shrapnell marks. Not less somber, it killed 42 persons and about half of them were kids. I'm not sure if the guide said it on purpose or just general belief.

@@An0n3mu55 How can a child ever be a carrier of "Bolshevik ideology", ¿Cómo jusitficas su muerte?? ¿Es realmente la ideologia bolshevique tan dañina? ¿Qué es lo que creen que haga que se merezca que les masacren a ellos y toda su familia?

With so much radicalism /extremists at the political right and left can't be expected anything to work anymore.

Are you by chance referring to the plaça de sant felip Neri? I think many people have the idea that it's bullet holes, but from what I've been told by my family (from Barcelona), is that it was actually the result of shrapnel from an Italian bombing campaign. Apparently it was full of kindergardeners waiting outside of the kindergarden for class to start. The original kindergarden is still there and in business.

Vice News reporters usually do a good job of interviewing and challenging people with radical or extremist views ... but this interview with Norberto Pico was not one of them. The reporter was too incensed and over the place with his questions. He wasn't pushing back against him effectively since he let his emotions get to him and just repeated himself in ways Pico easily countered with rhetoric. He wound up doing exactly what he feared, giving Pico a platform to grow. I think someone like Isobel or others who have more experience with such people should have carried out the interview instead.

Nah he did a great job

The Falange does not spread hate towards anyone. You are spreading hate against fascists for no reason right now without any knowledge of their ideology. Falangism is not racist.

@@jvelazque005 I think the comment below yours by gghost1224 somewhat proves my point...

The interviewer let his emotions run loose and barely let the the other guy talk at all. It's like two middle schooler arguing, with both sides exchanging whataboutism and blanket statements. The Falange leader, despite not organizing his words along his argumentative logic as well as he should have, still gained the upper hand because he was at least more calm and sophisticated, unlike the interviewing journalist. I wish he would have went along his own philosophy and interpretation instead of being led by the nice by the journalists in the beginning.

Try Hemingway

@@eedragonr For Whom The Bells Toll is so damn good as historical fiction

what about the 6000 priests the communists murdered ?

He was a dog

@@Dan_Breen he was just a spanish man taken in by international marxist propaganda designed to take land off land owners and give it to central bankers..

what about the republics bankers who stole the central gold and took it to moscow ?@@ghostlybird327

@billykilgannon No. The theories of communism and socialism are fine but get co-opted by dictatorship. The theory of fascism IS dictatorship.

@@terri6854 In order to achieve communism you need to first go through socialism, which is the dictatorship of the proletariat lmao

@@naitor2594 not really... To make a communist society... You need to get rid off the state making everyone organize themselves in comunal groups... But... The socialist state is needed to educate people on how to do it without everything collapsing...

If you knew history you would understand why fascism is so powerful in Spain... It is because the republic which was supposed to be the beacon of freedom started to kill the opposition... José calvo sotelo was shotted for being a monarchist... José Antonio was forced into prison for being fascist and then shotted when the civil war started... And I ain't saying that the fascist were better... There are no heroes... Nor villains... Just civil war and political violence forced by two systems... A "democratic" one and a "fascist" one...

@@rouwd4wn649 Yes, it educates via an authoritarian dictatorship that will inevitably kill millions of it's own population, marx literally called it the "dictatorship of the proletariat"

I'm glad someone else noticed that as well! As soon as the scene and discussion started you could clearly tell what side he'd protect

Journalist didn't even give him an opportunity to respond to his questions. He came at him like it was a debate, not an interview, and heavily edited on top of that. No wonder vice is going bankrupt, they don't care about doing proper journalism or offering all sides an equal voice, they just want to push a narrative. Good riddance to vice news.

The only way I guess these people can justify their actions is by claiming that everyone who was murdered "deserved" it, or call them terrorists

The Falangist party? You could fit them in a couple of school buses. 🤣🤣

Indeed western Europe is mirroring China these days. With much less talent, efficiency and effectiveness

Comunism commited so much crimes in Spain during de Civil War. Dont forget that.

​@@odiolaginebrano, both sides commit war crimes in different ways, nobody in europe wants communism contrary to what americans believe social democracy is how their societies work and normal people will defend it against extremist

@@ghostxl8525 you are so wrong. In Spain communists killed, clerics, nuns, whole families just for revenge against terrain owners, rich people, churchs, etc. Leftist in Spain lost the civil war but most crimes and terrorism after that was intencionally forgotten by leftist in the democracy.

@@odiolaginebra autism is beating ur ass man.

Muh [Fas©i$m] is *[BASED]* LMAOOO

If you didn't support the monarchy, the Army, or the church you supported Stalin who was just as involved in Spain as we and Italians were.

Makis were a comunist guerrilla formed by the communist party that the own Stalin and later on the very own party that created them wanted to eliminate. Maybe you can sell this freedom fight for non Spanish people, but they were not that

​@@wilhelm4321Nazi

yeah, your grandparents and great grandparents fought for communism not freedom

The Maquis came from various left-wing backgrounds with most maqui leaders being either PCE or CNT. PCE leadership declined after their decision to turn towards entrism in the national sindicate after Stalin announced he would no longer support their armed struggle. I don't know if you're talking about your grandparents personally or the maquis in general, but if you mean in general then you're wrong. I've been studying Spanish history in Spain for the last year and this is would be straight up wrong if that's what you mean.

Or perhaps they did realize they were not quite right

As a German it's eerily reminiscant of our older history documentaries. Watching her interview feels exactly like watching an 80s or 90s interview of a victim of the Nazis. Watching the interview of the fashist, although sure, there's a bit of a modern trumpist touch to it, is like watching the interviews of people peddling the "clean Wehrmacht" myth in Germany a few decades ago. I can only wish spain the best on the way they now seem to have started walking, as Germany started to do in the ealry 70s. It's a hard path, but it's deeply necessary.

​@@thecashier930Germany didn't have a civil war

@@eedragonr he never stated they did? xd

@@bingus1329 also Franco didn't do what Germany did

​@@thazfffDo not be stupid.

@@thazfff How about we not support fascists and communists and other tyrants?

@@thazfff ya te pillaremos x ahi tirillas

Why do you need "outside" pressure? This mentality is just living up to the stereotype that Latin's are too lazy to get projects done themselves.

​@@hubertcumberdale2651 what do you mean, if it was condemned internationally maybe the government would have to wipe the ministers that descend from franco's legacy, although if you ask me both the PP and PSOE parties should be disintegrated too for that matter (and obviously the one from the fascist in the video).

Dishonest journalist set up an "interview" and didn't let the person they were interviewing fully answer a question before interrupting them and moving on to another topic. Vice news came in there and only wanted to push a narrative, not allow all sides to voice their opinions. Glad vice news is going bankrupt.

@@blank4227 nice whataboutism. Stop being cringe

​@@ThePizzaGoblinYou do know that thousands of priests and nuns were murdered during that war, don't you?

@@Aran002 did you even watch the documentary?

@@ThePizzaGoblin Yes, and it's a pretty biased one. It tries to give the impression that the Falangist party is strong organization, when it really is a ridiculously small group that couldn't fill a dance hall and doesn't have a single elected representative anywhere. Concerning the victims of repression, you can just as easily find relatives of people shot by the Republicans. At the Municipality of Montcada i Reixac, near Barcelona, there is a mass grave with some 700 bodies which the Catalonian government has refused to exhume. You see, the victims are not "the good ones", they don't fit the current political narrative.

Sure 😂

In the historical community, the Spanish Civil War is getting a fairly new draw of attention and the source material is only getting bigger by the day

That's harsh bro

Whenever fascism sprouts it's ugly ass head anyone who follows that flag must be ground into dust

@@gg-gamers I wonder who determines whether someone is a fascist or not

Stay mad, Francoid! Glory to the Republicanos!

@@somerandommen I will never defend someone that was a dictatorship and killed innocent people for nothing though, I am a bit smarter than you are and even though I shame those f**** fascists I also see the big picture. What is it you may ask little monkey... Well, i also condemned those bastards that killed innocent religious people, innocents that just supported the dictatorship ( you know, because someone is on war doesn't mean you can kill their families). But I guess that's too much to think for a braindead left extremist.

Yeah, when you accept the murderous side of the Fascists.

@@somerandommen Lol cope, you lost, now get in pit!

​@@somerandommenFuck Franco, viva falangism.

It wasn't an interview, it was a debate. Dishonest journalist set up an "interview" and didn't let the person they were interviewing fully answer a question before interrupting them and moving on to another topic. Glad vice news is going bankrupt.

"it was never judged" you didn't learn about La Transicion? there was a pact where both sides agreed to put the war behind, that's why ppl on the Republican side where still allowed to be part of government, unlike in any other country in the world where they would have been either imprisoned or executed.

@@derpestarzt of course I now about the transition, this is my own history, but I think we both agree that "put the war behind " is not justice. This fascists overthrowed a democratic government, used forced workers to make money and faraonic buildings, killed the republicans and their afines, stilled their properties and businesses and nowadays nobody has paid for that, the power they got is still in the same hands, just playing the "forgetting game". You said in other countries it was worst, but in spain it was as bad as it could be, they just cleaned their faces and adapted to the new times and ways, but the crimes still in the shadows. Take the example of Argentina, there they judged the dictatorship.

​@@derpestarztwrong there was already something simular in South africa after the boer war infact Generals Louis Botha and Jan Smuts could have been shot for treason by the English but ended up as governing allies for the english siding against Germany in both world wars

We are still critical of the crimes of the British we never forgot we through it in their face the moment they showed weakness securing our final independence both the English and the Afrikaner served side by side in the government after the war but everyone new the score in Spain the score is disputed and the guilty party is allowed to claim ignorance when they are actually very clearly arrogant and proud of this exaggerated sense their sides own importance in Spains modern success

I am a Dominican but my family originally came from Spain and migrated to the Dominican Republic in the 1800’s. Ever since I learned about this I’ve been very curious about my Spanish heritage and I always loved learning about Spain. From the periods from which Spain was conquered by the moors up to the Francois Spain regime.

It’s necessary to do again in the US to get rid of the liberals

Very true. And it has happened in all.

A lot of people want everyone else to forget how conservative fascism shaped Spain.

​@@plainlakeAnd a lot of people want young people to believe all conservatism is the same way. Don't fall for the lie.

@@jeffzima9270 yeah not all but your american maga is a fascist movement "14 Characteristics of Fascism" 1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays. 2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of “need.” The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, and long incarcerations of prisoners 3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists… 4. Supremacy of the Military Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized. 5. Rampant Sexism The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Opposition to abortion is high, as is homophobia and anti-gay legislation. 6. Controlled Mass Media Sometimes the media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation or by sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Government censorship and secrecy, especially in war time, are very common. 7. Obsession with National Security Fear of hostile foreign powers is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses. 8. Religion and Government are Intertwined. Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government’s policies or actions. 9. Protection of Corporate Power Protected The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite. 10. Suppression of Labor Power Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed . 11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts. 12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations. 13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders. 14. Fraudulent Elections Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.

@@jeffzima9270 As if ANY variety of it is in any sense laudable....

It happens all across the world.

You are wrong on one point: The second republic was not corrupted, much less then the previous regime, and was a very advanced social state with a big popular support. The people fought for the republic but they were no military and had outdated and insufficient weaponry and were facing a professional army with modern weaponry (see Guernica bombing with German bombers).

⁠@@baronvonandroid3363There is nothing wrong with loving your country and culture. The line is crossed when you believe your country and culture are definitively superior to every other culture.

>Conservative party consisted largely of uneducated, illiterate citizens. The "conservative party" (there were dozens of them, being the two most important the "Partido Radical" and a confederation of small parties, the CEDA) were mainly composed of the intellectual elite of the time, because, surprise, the middle and high classes were the ones who had access to higher education. Not only that, but the most educated party at the moment (before the Civil War started, as they were insignificant and only took off after it) was the literal fascist party, the Falange. They were severely mocked at (being called a poets club and all) because their main base of support (estimates of 60 % of all affiliates) were their university student syndicates, specially the Law and Philosophy Students Syndicate. The "uneducated and illiterate population" was the main supporter of the communist and socialist parties (not including here the leftist liberals), and specially of the anarchists, which were highly popular in the most impoverished agrary lands. Also, the "conservative party" (which later on supported the coup) in power through the middle period of the Republic implemented a higher budget for education than the previous leftist government, it also helped that they lifted the previous ban on religious schools which were the main educative institutions at the time. I don't really know why I had the urge to explain all this. But here it is.

Reminds me also of what's happening at Israel and Palestine

Conservatives are illiterate and uneducated? Have you ever met a conservative?

If by "forwards" you mean toward freedom, I agree.

@@jeffzima9270 no by toward he means communism, where private property does not exist, if you are not rich you will not become rich, and neither your kids, where you own nothing, and where the governament owns you (which is kinda similar to what USA is nowadays).

@@notscar Thanks, that's how I understand it too. Would be nice if he told us himself for sure though.

@@notscar The duly elected Republican government in Spain was not "Communist". When no other country came to their aid, including the USA who would not even sell them weapons, they turned to Stalin for help in fighting back an armed insurrection led by General Franco and the army. He was a Fascist whose dictatorship took all civil liberties, rights and freedoms away. That's the world the Falange Fascist Party wants to return to.

no it wasn't and no amount of repeating the lie will change the past

You guys are acting like the communist party in spain was LITERALLY jsut as bad and committed as many atrocities.

@@derpestarzt nonsense.

Guess what....Communist regime was even worse

Spanish transition is as much of a transition as Russia is proving to be

Unlike comunists, who have not killed anyone, ever.

no thats wrong there are so many colors in uk mostly brown nowadays 😂😂😂

Yeah and they won in the end against the communists and degenerates says alot about your future tread carefully

@@Answersonapostcard They tried to commit a violent coup in the US, how do you think it would have ended if they won? Mark Levin “democrats must be eradicated” Tucker, Carlson “Democrats are true evil”. Mom for liberty has been flagged as a racial hate group. I can go on for hours. If this is traditional values then we need to do away with tradition permanently

@@Answersonapostcard its what people on his side of spectrum do. It leads to situations like the spanish civil war because its easier to fight then have civil discourse

Not accurate. Many of them were civilians living in towns. As the 97 year old woman said, someone wanted her father's job and went to the authorities and denounced her father as a "Communist". There was no due process or trial, people were rounded up and shot the next day just based on one person's accusation. To be fair, the same thing was happening in the areas controlled by the Republicans. My mother, a 20 year old living in Valencia, saw many people "accused" of being Franquistas by neighbors with grudges taken out and also shot at dawn. Yes, it is fair to call these people "disappeared" if they were buried in trenches with no records or identification.

It was continued by the Franco-Appointed monarchy. The current monarchy were good friends of Franco during the regime (the former king even "accidentally" killed his own brother using a gun that was gifted to him by Franco himself). A lot of the actions of the current monarchy also resemble (to a smaller, yet noticeable extent) Franco's regime, such as the imprisonment of political opposition, democratically elected officials being either imprisoned or exiled and called terrorists.. for holding elections... in a democracy.. imprisoning artists/singers for disrespecting the monarchy, and getting away with running away to foreign countries with millions of tax-payer dollars. Franco died, but his regime continued, and is still present today. It's just put hush-hush because nobody wants to admit that it's possible for a supposedly "civilized" European country could possibly be un-democratic.

they had at the spot an Amnesty Law to prevent people to dig in thepast, that's why, by Law, they coulnd't imprison the ones wh did it, and now their sons and grandsons are the new fascism, VOX, and all those groups...

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That’s not a reporter. He’s a propagandist for ppl like you. He always interrupted the guy and was just saying a bunch of things when he’s the one interviewing not been interviewed. But that’s typical with leftists, they won’t tolerate you having another opinion. Commie bastards

Yeah you just had to kill millions of people and bury them in secret graves. You fascists always point to communists but you always end up murdering millions and creating nothing special.

@@billyscenic5610 millions? lmao

​@@billyscenic5610millions? lmaooo

Uh huh, you do realize the Spanish Civil War was a fight for democracy and human rights. Every time someone mentions communism, I know they dont know their ash from a hole in the ground about the Spanish Civil War.

Like I've seem so many say in comments; who defines fascist and what is it's definition? All tyranny is horrible.

@@jeffzima9270 fascism is defined by its external present characteristics we can observe with our eyes

Fas cism is dead and has not been a thing since the W W2. You people need to get a grip.

​@@jeffzima9270Read the doctrine of fascism if you want to know what fascism is. I'd also recommend Jose Antonio's biography, fascism for the million, the fascist manifesto of 1919, anything by Giovanni Gentile, My rise and fall (Mussolini's full autobiography) is good, but it wouldn't be enough to teach someone what fascism is, Mussolini's intellectuals, the coming corporate state.

He is not ignorant. Everything he does is precisely calculated.

@@friendlybane okay I agree, but that makes him even more dangerous

@@otzpeda3860 Agreed.

You mean the cruelty of humans period....!

but it's praised by so many people

Don't forget about the cats and dogs that fascism killed! THEY ARE PEOPLE TOO!

Do you think communists and anarchists didnt commit massacres, given a chance?

@@CASULL455 they did commit genocide. They targeted us! That's why it's so rich of them to be seething about it like they're innocent. Notice how they say NOTHING about the genocides of Mao and Stalin, but cry about fascists all day long. The reason is quite simple: when they do it, we deserve it. Well, my message to communists is quite simple too: when we do it, you deserve it. And you will deserve it again, soon.

I mean falangists and francoists aren't the same. Many falangists don't like franco

Looks like another Falangist W.

dude are you literally saying Indians and Negroes? Lol

Stop lying. Everything you mentioned is taught in US schools.

We also don't talk about the fact that Leftists like Stalin and Mao killed 30 million and 60 million respectively, that Leftist Pol Pot killed the majority of the people living in Cambodia, and that thousands and thousands of people were killed by Leftists just for being Catholic in Mexico and Spain in the 1920s and 30s. We don't talk about the Armenian Genocide of the early 20th Century, in which Leftist Turks massacred thousands of Greek and Armenian Christians. Yep, there's a lot we don't talk about.

Are you kidding? Natives and Black Americans never shut the hell up about their past oppression despite being several generations removed from it. The fate of the natives was almost exclusively due to biology and terrible luck; yea, the spread of Old World diseases into the New World had terrible results, rendering them basically extinct, but that's the harsh reality of life. Pointing fingers at the inevitable is just pure cope. As for Asians, the only real oppression was suffered by Japanese Americans, who (incredibly) endured the mass internment with incredible resilience and managed to somehow assimilate without a hitch. Any other "minority" group whinging and moaning in the modern day about oppression is just riding the latest fad because being a victim is the hip and trendy thing to do now.

@@Cowslippoetry "our country has never ...." is one of the biggest gaslighting statements imaginable.

Pop-psychology. Body language experts arent really a thing.

@mileshill7196 Oh yes they are; and, they had a field day analyzing Mussolini, AH, and Donald J. Trump.

@@carlettesouthern-robert2992 FBI special interrogators will tell you that it is not real. There is no physical tell when someone is lying. That has been disproven many times.

​@@mileshill7196Just because it doesn't fit your narrative doesn't mean you have to play the victim. Franco's dead and you lost now get over it or continue looking in the mirror wondering why you aren't happy.

All the body language you described also fits someone who is just uncomfortable. In this guy's case I think you are right though.

well i watch all mine ones when i get up n all day when ever i want but then again i can bc i live in the lucky country n i dont have to go to the salt mines every day or 5 days a week but just relax n do as i please my child.

Tbh apart from politics, this timezone has been useful for me in the past, as it is closer with other parts of europe

Just like saying all Republicans were communists

This.

more than ever bc of the authoritarian Pedro Sanchez government?

I don't think you understand the context for the war. The Spanish army revolted because the Republicans were oppressive and wanted to restore and stabilize the country. Yes, though the Nationalist forces did mass murder the other side as this video explains, the Republicans mass murdered their opponents too. No one in this war was completely innocent, but it is not fair to be one-sided.

Nobody is fighting for that in this country

@@DescendingIntoChaos 'The margins of the "victory" were small and there were suspicions of fraud so it was not a mandate for overwhelming change but the communists separatists and anarquists were not exactly democratic and they pursued political killings,burning churches and monasteries and attacks on civilians so yes there was a provocation and a divided society. Madrid draped in giant murals of Stalin and Lenin is not exactly a signal of democracy as some would have the world believe. The polarisation was strong and the left had declared that should the right win they would rise up so either way a civil war was coming.

As a Spaniard myself, I have to tell you that while I'm glad you have a fondness for my country and unlike most other foreigners seek to understand it, you are not getting the full story, and I suspect you are aware of it. This short documentary does a good and necessary job at showing the aftermath of a civil war that tore our country apart and continues to do so to this day in many ways, because of how polarized and unstable our political system is. It is vital to understand truly why these events took place, and a lot of the most important information is either not talked about or outright censored. I can guarantee you this as I recently finished high school and some of the most important facts are barely mentioned in our history program, which is compulsory, but does nothing to educate us about our past. Yes, Franco's soldiers killed many people unjustly, and it's a great thing to give the victims closure after decades of repression. But what they won't tell you in documentaries like this or almost any other one regarding the Civil War, whether it's in English or in Spanish, is that the Republican (leftist) regime was extremely unstable and fraudulent, that it banned religion with the threat of death by firing squad to those who kept their Catholic faith, and that many leftist soldiers were notorious for destroying churches and abusing and killing nuns (you know the kind of abuse I'm talking about). The Republicans, whose best ally was the USSR, sent over 70% of our gold reserve to Moscow at the beginning of the war, and this gold, almost 500 tonnes, was never returned. Had the Communists won, had Fascism been defeated in the Civil War, do you think we would have done any better? Would it have been more honorable to live as an ally of the USSR, possibly even longer than what Franco's regime lasted, until the fall of the Soviet Union, and end up like other post-soviet countries in eastern Europe? Do you think the Communists were any more keen on Fascists than Fascists were on Communists? I hope you share the same animosity for far-left regimes than for fascists ones, because otherwise this is just a comfortable but ultimately morally corrupted stance to take, especially about a country which you barely even know about. And we aren't really succeeding in our fight for freedom, as you say. Our Socialist government is destroying us. We are hitting record low positions in so many areas of our society and economy compared to the rest of the EU, and it looks like it's only going to get worse. But hey, as long as our beaches and historical cities look pretty to the tourists, it's all good right? That way they come here, give us some money to delay the inevitable economic collapse, and buy into the mainstream narrative that does nothing to actually help us move forward. But it sure feels good to play the morally righteous part, doesn't it?

Fascists don't want to take away rights lol. The Fascist manifesto of 1919 literally calls for universal suffrage.

you mean making stuff up?

@@yakovbrod9992 How are you this disconnected from reality?

@@Erulilum because I look stuff up unlike 99% of people out there. The marxists mass murdered people as well. Biased reporting is not mentioning this verifiable fact that you can google.

Well glad that vice is facing bankrupt 😂

@@ZKG754bc they got bought out by HBO not shitty reporting. Sadly they were forced to do bullshit for HBO and now they can’t recover from the losses of that contract they were held to.

We already have a fascist president. Maybe soon we will move on from him

should have chosen the moral side then.

@@derpestarzt ixildu facha

​@@derpestarzt What moral side? Just as bad as the other if not worse.

@@ww_x777 obviously not, the Nationalists represented the majority of the population; the God fearing working class while the Republicans represented the degen "intelectuals" and upper classes and their combatants were literal criminals taken out of prison, rapists, murderers etc, they tortured and murdered priests and nuns and were fighting to impose communism, if they had won Spain would have been a shitty poor country like what happened to most Eastern European countries under the URSS.

I couldn't stand him either and with his close minded body language with his arms wrapped around himself. Tells you everything about the Fascists.

The Vice are bloody commies, so don't waste your effort.

Carlists suck. Falangism is based.

Viva Cristo Rey, Arriba Espana! ✝🙋🏻 Respect from England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮♥ 🇪🇸

Thus always to tyrants

En el infierno

​@@lanceroparaca1413🤓

Yeh, don’t see many vice reporters opening with “you defend and deny the horrors of communism and Marxism to far left leaders” terrible interview. Didn’t want to understand anything, just go in for a fight like 5 year old 🙄

A qu3mar Iglesias/ elizak err3tzera!!!!!!

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Well, cause they were not killed in combat.

@@lanceroparaca1413Oh really? They were not killed in “combat” then why would they say in 0:08 that they are digging up a Trench? Why would regular leftists civilians be in a trench in the middle of no where? Huh?

⁠@@lanceroparaca1413 since they said they found the remains in a trench, then it was justifiable for them to be killed in COMBAT, Leftists have to rely on calling Franco a dictator because his soldiers killed Leftists in Combat just because your using that excuse does not justify to why you need to support a bunch of Leftists Anarchists that committed genocide against Catholics nuns pastors, and Eve Angelic Christian’s simply because one dictator wanted to over throw a democratically elected government that could’ve turned Spain into a Soviet State after the end of WWII, Communists leaders can be democratically elected too and turn the country into a dictatorship just like Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. If Franco never won that civil war, Spain wouldn’t be entering NATO in 1982 when the Soviet Union was still a alive.

Like Guernica?

Like Santiago Carrillo etc?

@@eedragonr And Cabra which none of these Guiris even know about!

Well said. It's always better to figure out how to move forward uniting people under true freedom than to get caught up on one specific.

You can die, no one is stopping you

Very well said. No doubt this guy does support tyranny, but let him say it himself. It's far more convincing to people.

None of that is true. Franco and Salazar didn't know each other until Franco was head of state in Spain. Very few Portuguese fought in Spain, those that did were volunteers. Salazar was the best thing that happened to Portugal.

@@annoneemoose Franco in university made one work called "how to invade Portugal in 3 days" that's why Salazar from is Classroom become friend (or better scared of him become false friend) do you know anything about history? Even the king of Spain went to university in Portugal! To run from that Fascists from Spain! Tell me the good things that append to the Portuguese that fight in the frontline for Franco??? They all come home without hands or legs!!! You are blind because you are a Fascist like Franco and Salazar!

​​@@annoneemooseThe best thing that happened to Portugal was the revolution of April. Long live captain Salgueiro Maia, the true portuguese patriot

Self defense while being outside of continental Spain? My ass.

There are many edgy kids on the other side who are big fans of the socialist Republicans and CNT-FAI as well. But of course they're different cus the socialists are the good guys right!?!?!?

​@Jarmint Yes, Anarcho-Socialists believe in liberation and freedom (good things. Fascists believe in repression and class collaboration (bad things)

Its easy to suck up those regimes when you've never had to experience them at all.

There were two sides in this war. One of the problems about spanish civil war is that media and politicians always tell one side of the story. We are constantly told about the victims of the regime. Like there weren't any more. For example all movies about the spanish civil war are from the perspective of the republicans. The good ones were supposed to be the republicans. And you have to learn by yourself that they weren't better than Franco's regime, that they also executed inocents, that they also commited cruel crimes. Go read about Paracuellos, so you can get a glimpse of the things that media or politicians dont like to talk about in Spain.

@@Davidman3976 lol no comment

​@@Davidman3976no les intentes explicar nada, son de fuera y les venden la moto con vídeos como este

​@@RealJugLYYou probably can't find Spain on a map. 🤣🤣

​@@Davidman3976one side wrote the history until at least 1975, so that argument is a double edged sword that is much sharper on the other side than the one you're looking at

@@Riverside1432 That's the thing though, we have the ability of foresight and choose to ignore it.

Whatabout from a fascist.

It was a result of the 1980's transition. Everybody incluidng moderates, which is what Spain overwhelmingly is today, agreed this was the price for reentering a normal life and avoid a coup or a new war. Don't prosecute and don't dig up the past. This was good in the 1980's. Today, it should be dealt with once and for all, dig them up and give them a decent burial, just like people murdered by the anti-Franco camp were given, right when the war finished.