Francisco Franco — "For this reason, because we know that ours is the truth, and because we have lab…"
For this reason, because we know that ours is the truth, and because we have labored for it for six years, we look upon events with serenity. In these days our generations are not merely faced with territorial and political problems, but also with supreme issues of the existence of our faith, our civilization and our culture, which are now at stake once more.
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Spanish general who won the 1936-1939 Civil War with Axis backing and ruled Spain as dictator until his death in 1975.
Closely associated with
António de Oliveira Salazar (Portuguese dictator and ideological cousin).
For an intellectual contrast, see
Dolores Ibárruri, Spanish Communist Civil War leader known as 'La Pasionaria' — Ibárruri's '¡No pasarán!' (They shall not pass) speech became the Republican rallying cry against Franco's Nationalist forces. Franco's Nationalist Spain and Ibárruri's Republican Spain were the two opposed answers to the same 1930s Spanish question — the Civil War's two sides personified.