• SuddenDownpour
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    5 months ago

    Fun fact: some Spanish Republicans lamented that WWII didn’t start in the earliest months of 1939, because then Francoist Spain would have been considered a belligerent and eventually liberated from totalitarism around 1945. Instead, they got adopted as a little fascist anti-communist lapdog by the Western powers.

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      5 months ago

      Fascists were very popular in the West to prevent Communism

      Canada imported a lot into our prairies for that reason