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[–] aesthelete 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Fascism always winds up having to reach outside of its own borders.

[–] Ibex0 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Spain kept it going internally for decades.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only because they didn't have a choice. The civil war destroyed their already mediocre industry and it was easier to just ally with the capitalists against the communists in exchange for financial aid.

Make no mistake, if it were possible for Franco to invade his neighbors he would have.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also wasnt portugal increasingly militaristic at the time? So basically Spain was in a hugbox that prevented external military action, also Morroco was a french colony at the time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Spain did have some coastal African territories that are now part of Morocco, but yes, once the Axis lost there simply wasn't any hope of expanding.

Of course, Italian irredentism at the time basically meant restoring the Roman holdings, so even if the Axis had won it probably wouldn't have worked out in Franco's favor, so he mostly just stayed home and murdered socialists, feminists, and gay people.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

yeah what a paradise that turned into

[–] uis 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Evil is uncontainable. If you accept bribe money, corruption will haunt your country.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I mean you're telling everyone that your country is superior to all others then it's just logical that you see others as mere support for your country and even entitled to it.