Author Topic: Madrid strips Franco of honorary titles (Read 9384 times)

TheD · « **Reply #15 on:** February 28, 2010, 10:08:05 AM »

Quote from: Thomas, Hugh (1961), The Spanish cινιℓ ωαr

Pope Pius XII sent a radio message of congratulation to the Spanish Government, clerics and people on April 16, 1939 The Red Terror in Spain was from the Vatican perspective only one part of a Terrible Triangle of Red Terror, whose goal was the eradication of religion, involving Mexico and the Soviet Union as well. Pope Pius XI complained about Conspiracy of Silence on all Church persecutions. The Red Terror continued in Mexico for about one year, then in 1940 the new President Manuel Ávila Camacho restored the rights of the Church in that country. In the Soviet Union, the terror against religion and the Church was greatly reduced in 1941, after Germany attacked in June 1941. The Soviet persecution resumed however at the end of World War II , when the Soviet Union incorporated former Polish territories with 4.5 million Catholics and arrested over 1000 Catholic priests and archbishop Joseph Slipyi.

Clovis · « **Reply #16 on:** February 28, 2010, 10:08:45 AM »

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It also should be noted that the Catholic Church beatified 498 Martyrs of the Spanish cινιℓ ωαr.

You are not distinguisghing between the anarchist CNT and the legitimate Republican goverment though they did join forces at the desperate end.

TheD · « **Reply #17 on:** February 28, 2010, 10:10:27 AM »

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It also should be noted that the Catholic Church beatified 498 Martyrs of the Spanish cινιℓ ωαr.

You are not distinguisghing between the anarchist CNT and the legitimate Republican goverment though they did join forces at the desperate end.

Read what I posted above.

Clovis · « **Reply #18 on:** February 28, 2010, 10:12:40 AM »

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Quote from: The Spanish cινιℓ ωαr, the Soviet Union, and Communism
Their goal was to use a veil of legitimate democratic institutions to outlaw the right and to convert the state into the Soviet vision of a "people's republic" with total leftist domination, a goal which was repeatedly voiced not only in Comintern instructions but also in the public statements of the PCE (Communist Party of Spain)

The goals of the Republicans were communist.

All the Republicans???

Also that flies in the face of the actual geo-political stratergy of Moscow of that time. Its an assertion and nothing more.

TheD · « **Reply #19 on:** February 28, 2010, 10:14:24 AM »