Is Franco the villain he's often made out to be?

>>3261255
Yes

>>3261255
No

>>3261255
Maybe

>>3261255
I don't know.

>>3261255
can you repeat the question

>>3261255
All I know is that despite the continuing valiant effort of his medical team, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.

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YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME NOW!!

>>3261255
As a Spaniard... yes.

It's hard to answer that question, he wasn't a good guy but in the civil war his Nationalist side was the lesser of two evils. No matter who would have won, Spain would have lost. If anything, Franco's Nationalists winning the war was untimately the best outcome available because once Franco died Spain very quickly changed for the better. Had the Nationalists lost and the Republicans put a Communist government into power upon victory I doubt it would have fallen and transitioned to a better government as quickly as it happened with the Francoist regime's fall.

>>3261255
The only way he's not a villain is that the other side was even worse than he. That said, as far as the power struggle on the Nationalist side goes, he's probably the second best choice for leadership (I'd give first to the Carlists).

franco was strongly anti communist, he is no villain to me