Monday, August 15, 2005

Dictators and despots

I don’t know how this happens but I have a knack for getting myself into these situations where I feel I have not only to condemn KaSStro but defend every thing the conservative right stands for.
Today was an acquaintance who although anti-KaSStrist had the utter balls to compare KaSStro and Franco. I don’t even know how the conversation started but If you think I curse when I write you gotta hear me when I scream. So there I am giving this guy a history lesson that I don’t think he will EVER forget.
First Franco. Was he a dictator? Yes he was .. Point given. WHY was he a dictator? He HAD to be ! The communists in Spain where RUTHLESS pricks, every god damn pseudo commie in the world was fighting against him, talk about MERCENARIES! (Funny when they fight on the commie side, they are International brothers.. FUCK THEM ALL)
If you EVER go to Spain go to Toledo, the Alcazar specifically.
In it you will see a room, small about 7 ‘square there is a chair a table and an old telephone. One of those things you must crank and it will ring on an operator’s board for patching.
There is also a conspicuous button that when pressed it plays back a barely intelligible conversation, but as you read along you realize the chilling course of events on that July 23 1936. The transcript is written in various languages but to get the full impact you MUST hear the words spoken in Spanish.
The “Republican” troops “The Reds” had been driven back into the fortress and Francos troops under General Moscardo had held them at bay for 70 days.
In typical communist underhanded cowardice the republican leader has Moscardos 16 year old son kidnapped. On that July 23 he cranks the phone, turns on an old wire recorder and calls Moscardo. He tells him the “REDS” had his son , and if he did not surrender his 16 year old son would be executed.
Moscardo sounds shaken abut this news , his voice cracks and he asks to speak with his son as proof he is still alive. The wish is granted. His son then explains “ Dad if you don’t surrender they will shoot me” Moscardo obviously in tears at this point tells his son. “Then commend your soul to GOD , scream VIVA ESPAÑA and die like a hero” with this a “VIVA ESPAÑA” scream is heard followed by a single shot”. The 16 year old kid had died like a hero.
This is what Franco faced when he liberated Spain from the claws of the Soviet Union and world wide pricks. In order to defeat the well armed Communists Franco had to make the tough decision of allying himself with Hitler. Tough in more ways than one because Franco STILL saw Hitler as a socialist but a socialist that had enough money weapons and food to allow him to fight an even battle.
Both Russia and Germany tested all the weapons they would later used during WWII in Spain. Spain was devastated , but without a doubt with the help of Germany’s war machine Franco won. Now, the most interesting part of this unbelievable man.
Franco owed Hitler a MASSIVE debt, not only of gratitude but economical. Hitler demanded that Franco join the axis but Franco steadfastly stuck to a neutral position. Franco had used Hitler’s help masterfully but had no desire to ally himself with a crazed man. He actually convinced Hitler that a Neutral position by Spain would be the most convenient to Germany. Somehow Hitler bough this line of reasoning. And Spain was indeed a neutral country during WWII.
The same positioning was offered to the Allies. So both Germany and the Allies could at any given point be repairing submarines side by side on the same Spanish dock.
Spain recouped a great deal of money to re-construct itself. With no desire of expansion nor exporting ideology. Franco remained committed to a better Spain. Both the allies and Hitler needed this strategic piece of land and Franco was more than willing to make both pay for it. But it was Hitler who paid the dearest as Franco was convinced that Hitler’s “socialist” regimen would eventually fail, he gradually, inexorably shifted his allegiances towards the allies.
After Hitler with his Teutonic efficiency marries Eva and shoots her and himself in the head. (WHAT a reception “er no cake moin fuher ? .. BAM!)) The German high command had all hope that Spain would give them safe conduct to Latin America. Franco did, but for FOUR days! After that period all German assets in Spain will be confiscated and Germans would no longer able to travel through Spain.
The Germans were livid, there were millions of dollars in gold bullions in Spain and Franco was only allowing them a token period of time them to get their house in order and piss the fuck off OR .. He would have to confiscate. Threats from Germany began landing on Franco’s desk. Of course at this point with 20/20 hindsight the German’s realize Franco had played them like a cheap banjo. Alongside of the threats came letters of support and request from help from the allie. Franco true to his word CUT the Germans signed treaties with the USA & Britain, but ALWAYS keeping full control of his country and sovereignty.
And THAT is how one man led a country through a devastating war civil war that left 95% of Spain in rubbles.
In 10 years Spain was once again a metropolis. At this point Spain had only to watch for that miserable RED beast to lift its head again . Once it did he would cut it off. So the semantics of the language do tells us FRANCO was a dictator.
But KaSStro The Beast of BIRAN is a despot . There had never been a moment of valor that even compares that that hot July in Toledo. KaSStro faced a “war” where the grand total of casualties was …. 150 men – AMONGST BOTH SIDES!
KaSStro walks into a thriving, rich cosmopolitan city and in 10 years sends it back to the stone age. He sells his soul the USSR and never tries to reconstruct the country. His GREATER destiny was at hand, that of BURYING” the USA, Cuba be damned, Cuba was to KaSStro a means to an end. Spain was to Franco his "raison de etra” a REAL vision which came to life for all the world to see.
A vison that came true out of sand blood of 16 year old kids happily dying for a cause.
So yes , my dear friend Franco WAS a dictators and Spain should kneel at his tomb and thank him every day for his wisdom , courage and love to country.
As for KaSStro what will his obituary will say ?
I know it will bee difficult to read with all the shit that will be thrown against THAT tomb.

6 Comments:

ziva said...

Heres another little known fact about Franco and WWII. Thanks to his policies, thousands of Jews escaped the horrors of the Holocaust.

Tuesday, August 16, 2005 1:33:00 AM  
Charlie Bravo said...

Viva España in Spain, Viva Cristo Rey, Abajo fidel in Cuba, heroic last words in both places!

Tuesday, August 16, 2005 5:15:00 AM  
killcastro said...

Forgot that Ziva! Yes, his position as a neutral country did give him ample room to aid Jewish people fleeing Nazi death camps.
He also interceded directly in liberating a few very high profile jews from the holocaust
This probably comes from the little known fact that Franco had Jewish ancestry.
It TRULY amazes me how the left wingers tag Franco's movement "Falange" as "Nazi" driven. There could NOT be two more different ideologies. I think their only commonality was their anti-communism. But again Franco saw Hitler "National Socialism" as a prelude to communism.

Tuesday, August 16, 2005 11:27:00 AM  
xavier said...

killcastro:
Thbere's one more evil legacy from the Spanish civil war: the Soviet/Eastern Europan communists perfected how to take over 'liberated' countries. If you look at the Soviet/communist names in Spain in '36-39, they appear again 10 years later in Eastern Europe.

By the way, I disagree with you about Franco being good to Spain. Far better than left, sure; the left would've destroyed Spain much as the communists throughout Eastern Europe and Cuba have. However his repression of the Catalans and the Basques, his regime's attempts to obliterate the Basque and Catalan languages and the savage repression still in the early years after the civil war are stopermanent stains.

Keep blogging as I hope to see Cuba liberated from the barbudo in my lifetime.
xavier

Thursday, August 18, 2005 10:31:00 PM  
Charlie Bravo said...

Thanks Xavier for your wishes, and I hope that we see Cuba free in our lifetime. I agree with KillCastro that Franco was better than the commies and with you in that the Basque and Catalonian languages and cultures needed to be respected and preserved. For thaT I will paraphrase ETA since they have no rights to steal the language from the Basque people: Gora Kuba askatuta! (for my non Basque readers, this phrase means Viva Cuba libre, ETA has hijacked the expresion Gora Euskadi Askatuta, that means Viva el Pais Vasco libre!, originally, the phrase was meant against the commies) That's says it all from my perspective. Kuba askatuta (a free Cuba) can exist only without kagasstro. Some times evil has to be confronted with a hard system, and that was in essence what Franco did. I do not agree with the supression of other cultures and languages but he didn't even allowed privileges to the Galicians even if he was from there. I disagree with Franco in one very important thing: when he told the Americans: A Cuba no me la toqueis, don't touch my Cuba. He was feeling some sort of small town solidarity with kagasstro, who technically is a Galician himself. Mila esker (thanks so much) for commenting, Xavier, keep on coming back.

Thursday, August 18, 2005 10:55:00 PM  
killcastro said...

Xavier
I fully understand your sentiments but I see the early repression as a necessary evil. I do not belive in the virtues of fighting fairly while your enemies are doing exactly the opposite. Franco had no choice. As you say this was in the "early" years after the civil war.

"El Valle de los Caidos" is a monument to reconcilition, it speaks volumes about the forgiving nature of the victors.
I have no excuse for Franco's desire to obliterate the Vasque and Catalan languages and cultures, but Spain's history will bear out that a fragmented Spain was a weak Spain.
Perhaps THAT was his reasoning. I personally do not belive in repression , I would've given both the Catalan and Vasques full autonomy and then broken realationships with them and let them fend for themselves.
But that is just *ME* cause I can be a bit of a prick.
Thanks for your wishes about a FREE CUBA and thanks for taking the time to comment

Thursday, August 18, 2005 11:35:00 PM  

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