How did he do it?
How did this madman survive the civil war, WWII, and the cold war so effortlessly? There were no real threats to his regime until he was nearly dead from old age
Nobody gave a fuck about Spain. It's just some territory at the corner of Europe.
He was considered a "Bastion of anticommunism" by the U.S.
That about settles it.
>>1838129
This. Same reason Belarus still has a dictator and no-one gives any shits about it.
>>1838093
By being a god incarnated as man to protect Spain from the communist and liberal hordes.
How else?
>>1838093
Because he wasn't a mad man. Hell he wasn't even a fascist, he was the head of a conglomerate of conservative factions and was a monarchist himself.
>>1838093
We forgot about Spain the moment Perl Harbor happened
dumping a few millions of starved spaniards on the Americas sure helped