La tristeza de estos días, al corroborar la premonición de que nada se nos había resuelto. De que el "fascio", cuyo ultra-cuerpo invisible, se había ido apoderando de los seres que me rodeaban y por extensión, a tantos otros.
Aún y así, ante la ostentación de el colonialismo impertérrito Hispanista e Imperial, no puedo más que estar de acuerdo con el punto básico y elemental: y es que esto es una injusticia y proviene de las catacumbas que alimentan a los instintos vampíricos neo-franquistas, falangistas, neo-nazi etc, de tantos políticos y empresarios. Que a su vez adoctrinan, porque si existe adoctrinacion es desde lo Españolista y Hispano-nacionalista por tradición.
Como ya lo advertía Hegel, esto es pura dialéctica amo/vs/esclavo.
Lo que sucede hoy día, va más allá de lo imaginado, o siquiera, lo previsto.
En los blogs y noticias alternativas se escriben testimonios que echan luz a lo que "hay". Se necesita.
E. Planas Balduz Bennici
Dice Jordi Galves desde Barcelona. Martes, 17 de abril de 2018
"No puede ser que los ciudadanos de Catalunya, los independentistas, los españolistas y los indiferentes tengan una oferta televisiva políticamente tan amplia y tan serenamente libre. No, no, ¿qué nos habíamos creído? Vivimos en un territorio descaradamente colonial que debe ser asimilado a cualquier precio y, para esta sagrada tarea españolizadora, nuestros medios de comunicación públicos deben ser idénticos a los del resto de España. Es decir, pueden ser o bien abiertamente anticatalanistas o discretamente anticatalanistas, pero en definitiva siempre contrarios al hecho vivo de Catalunya y a la libertad del pueblo catalán. Esta es la estrategia y ése es el plan."
"La admirable España de las autonomías ya no es solo una broma sin sentido, ahora ya es abiertamente una comedia grotesca. Sus argumentos han dejado de suscitar indignación y ahora solo provocan tristeza e hilaridad, según las horas. Mientras hay jueces que son incapaces de identificar y de procesar por corrupción a alguien llamado M. Rajoy, hay otros que imaginan rebeliones y sediciones que nunca han existido, tomando presos políticos, expulsando a exiliados y generando mucho dolor. Y vendrán muchos más, tantos como podrán, porque la arbitrariedad ha sustituido a la ley. Porque la interpretación de la ley sustituye a la semántica de la ley. Mientras la monarquía española, con su ciega arrogancia, se desprestigia a sí misma cada día, se quiere hacer responsable a unas inofensivas canciones de un rapero, Josep Miquel Arenas, Valtònyc. Este es el talante de la admirable democracia española por ahora, este es el recorrido previsto. El Estado español está tocado de muerte y, por este motivo, ha emprendido una enloquecida, absurda, carrera hacia ninguna parte. Es el precio que el Estado español está dispuesto a pagar, el precio del desprestigio internacional del que hablaba hace meses Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba. Una patriótica y exaltada carrera que provocará todo el daño que sea posible antes de morir de inanición y de estupidez. Ojalá el independentismo político sepa mantenerse bien alejado. No nos arrastre España cuando caiga."
más: https://www.elnacional.cat/es/opinion/jordi-galves-tv3_259089_102.html
State flag of the Spanish State from 1938 to 1945.
Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War)
The Nationalist faction (Spanish: Bando nacional)[nb 1] or Rebel faction(Spanish: Bando sublevado)[1] was a major faction in the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939. It was composed of a variety of political groups that supported the Spanish coup of July 1936 against the Second Spanish Republic, including the Falange, the CEDA, and two rival monarchist claimants: the Alfonsists and the Carlists. In 1937, all the groups were merged into the Falange. One of the main leaders (Spanish: Caudillo) of the 1936 coup, General Francisco Franco, would lead this faction throughout the war and later would become the dictator of Spain from 1939 to 1975.
The term Nationalists or Nationals (nacionales) was coined by Joseph Goebbels following the visit of the clandestine Spanish delegation led by Captain Francisco Arranz requesting war material on 24 July 1936, in order to give a cloak of legitimacy to Nazi German help to the Spanish rebel military.[2] The leaders of the rebel faction, who had already been denominated as 'Crusaders' by Bishop of Salamanca Enrique Pla y Deniel—and also used the term Cruzada for their campaign— immediately took a liking to it.
The term Bando nacional —much as the term rojos (Reds) to refer to the loyalists— is considered by some authors as a term linked with the propaganda of that faction, therefore in academic circles the term 'rebels' (Bando sublevado) is preferred.[3] [4] Throughout the civil war the term 'Nationalist' was mainly used by the members and supporters of the rebel faction, while its opponents used the terms fascistas (fascists)[1] or facciosos (sectarians)[5] to refer to this faction.
Belligerents
The military rebellion found wide areas of support both inside Spain and in the international sphere. In Spain the Francoist side was mainly supported by the predominantly conservative upper class, liberal professionals, religious organizations and land-owning farmers. It was mostly based in the rural areas where progressive political movements had made few inroads, such as great swathes of the Northern Meseta, including almost all of Old Castile, as well as La Rioja, Navarra, Alava, the area near Zaragoza in Aragon, most of Galicia, parts of Cáceres in Extremadura and many dispersed pockets in rural Andalucía where the local society still followed ancient traditional patterns and was yet untouched by "modern" thought.[6]
Political groups
Politically this faction rallied together various parties and organizations which in some cases espoused opposed ideologies, such as the conservative CEDA and Alejandro Lerroux’s radicals (liberals), as well as Falangists, Catholics and pro-Monarchic movements such as the Agraristas and the Carlistas (Requetés).[6]
Falange
Falange
The Falange was originally a Spanish fascistpolitical party founded by José Antonio Primo de Rivera, son of the former Spanish leader Miguel Primo de Rivera.[7] The Falange was created with the financial assistance of Alfonsist monarchist funding.[8] Upon being formed, the Falange was officially anti-clerical and anti-monarchist.[9] As a landowner and aristocrat, Primo de Rivera assured the upper classes that Spanish fascism would not get out of their control like its equivalents in Germany and Italy.[8] In 1934, the Falange merged with the pro-Nazi Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista of Ramiro Ledesma Ramos.[8]
Initially, the Falange was short of funds and was a small student-based movement that preached of a utopian violent nationalist revolution.[8] The Falange committed acts of violence prior to the war, including becoming involved in street brawls with their political opponents that helped to create a state of lawlessness that the right-wing press blamed on the republic to support a military uprising.[8] Falangist terror squads sought to create an atmosphere of disorder in order to justify the imposition of an authoritarian regime.[10] With the onset of middle-class disillusionment with the CEDA's legalism, support for the Falange expanded rapidly.[10] By September 1936, the total Falangist volunteers numbered at 35,000, accounting for 55 percent of all civilian forces of the Nationals.[11]
The Falange was one of the original supporters of the military coup d'état against the republic, the other being the Carlists.[12] After the death of José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Manuel Hedilla sought to take control of the Falange, but this was usurped by Franco who sought to take control of the movement as part of his move to take control of the National faction.[13] In 1937, Franco announced a decree of unification of the National political movements, particularly the Falange and the Carlists into a single movement, nominally still the Falange, under his leadership.[14] Both Falangists and Carlists were initially furious at the decision, Falangists in particular saw their ideological role as being usurped by the Catholic Church and their "revolution" being indefinitely postponed.[14]
Upon unification and seizure of leadership by Franco, Franco distanced the party from fascism and declared "The Falange does not consider itself fascist; its founder said so personally."[15] After this announcement, the practice in the National faction of referring to the Falange as "fascists" disappeared by 1937, but Franco did not deny that there were fascists within the Falange.[15] Franco declared that the Falange's goal was to incorporate the "great neutral mass of the unaffiliated," and promised that no ideological rigidity would be allowed to interfere with the goal.[15]Under Franco's leadership, the Falange abandoned the previous anticlerical tendencies of José Antonio Primo de Rivera and instead promoted neotraditionalist National Catholicism, though it continued to criticize Catholic pacifism.[16] Franco's Falange also abandoned hostility to capitalism, with Falange member Raimundo Fernández-Cuesta declaring that Falange's national syndicalism was fully compatible with capitalism.[17]
CEDA
CEDA
The Spanish Confederation of Autonomous Right-wing Groups, CEDA, was a Catholic right-wing political organization dedicated to anti-Marxism.[18] The CEDA was led by José María Gil-Robles y Quiñones. The CEDA claimed that it was defending Spain and "Christian civilization" from Marxism, and claimed that the political atmosphere in Spain had made politics a matter of Marxism versus anti-Marxism.[18] With the advent of the rise of the Nazi Party to power in Germany, the CEDA aligned itself with similar propaganda ploys to the Nazis, including the Nazi emphasis on authority, the fatherland, and hierarchy.[18] Gil-Robles attended in audience at the Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg and was influenced by it, henceforth becoming committed to creating a single anti-Marxist counterrevolutionary front in Spain.[18] Gil-Robles declared his intention to "give Spain a true unity, a new spirit, a totalitarian polity..." and went on to say "Democracy is not an end but a means to the conquest of the new state. When the time comes, either parliament submits or we will eliminate it."[19] The CEDA held fascist-style rallies, called Gil-Robles "Jefe", the equivalent of Duce, and claimed that the CEDA might lead a "March on Madrid" to forcefully seize power.[20]The CEDA failed to make the substantive electoral gains from 1931 to 1936 that were needed for it to form government which resulted in right-wing support draining from it and turning towards the belligerent Alfonsist monarchist leader José Calvo Sotelo.[21] Subsequently, the CEDA abandoned its moderation and legalism and began providing support for those committed to violence against the republic, including handing over its electoral funds to the initial leader of the military coup against the republic, General Emilio Mola.[10] Subsequently, supporters of the CEDA's youth movement, Juventudes de Acción Popular (JAP) began to defect en masse to join the Falange, and ceased to exists as a political organisation in 1937.[10]
Monarchists
Carlists
Carlists
The Carlists were monarchists and ardent ultratraditionalist Catholics who sought the installation of Carlist Pretender Francisco Javier de Borbón as King of Spain.[22] The Carlists were anti-republican, anti-democratic and staunchly anti-socialist.[23] The Carlists were so anti-socialist that they opposed both Hitler and Mussolini because of their socialistic tendencies.[23] The Carlists were led by Manuel Fal Condé and held their main base of support in Navarre.[23]The Carlists along with the Falange were the original supporters of the military coup d'état against the republic.[12] The Carlists held a long history of violent opposition to the Spanish state, stemming back to 1833 when they launched a six-year civil war against the state.[24] The Carlists were strongly intransigent to any coalition with other movements, even believing that no non-Carlist could have honest intentions.[24]
During the war, the Carlists' militia, the Requetés reached a peak of 42,000 recruits but by the end of hostilities in April 1939 their overall strength had been reduced to 23,000.[24]
Alfonsists
Bank note issued by the Nationalist government in October 1937 with the coat of arms of Alfonso XIII.
The Alfonsists were a movement that supported the restoration of Alfonso XIII of Spain as monarch following the founding of the Spanish Second Republic in 1931. They competed with rival monarchists, the Carlists, for the Spanish throne. After the overthrow of the monarchy of Alfonso XIII, Alfonsist supporters formed the Renovación Española, a monarchist political party, which held considerable economic influence and had close supporters in the Spanish army.[25]Renovación Española did not, however, manage to become a mass political movement.[25] In 1934, the Alfonsists, led by Antonio Goicoechea, along with the Carlists, met with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini to gain support for an uprising against the republic, in which Mussolini promised to provide money and arms for such a rising.[26] From 1934 to 1936, the charismatic Alfonsist leader José Calvo Sotelo spoke of the need for the "conquest of the state" as the only means to secure the establishment of an ideal authoritarian, corporatist state.[26] Sotelo made passionate speeches in support of violent counterrevolution and emphasized the need for a military insurrection against the republic to counter the threats of communism and separatism that he blamed as being caused by the republic.[27] Sotelo was kidnapped and assassinated by political opponents (who were initially searching out Gil-Robles of the CEDA to kidnap) on 13 July 1936 which sparked fury on the political right and helped legitimize the military coup against the republic.[28]
When the war broke out, Infante Juan, the son of Alfonso XIII and heir to the Spanish throne, requested the permission of Franco to take part in the Nationals' war effort by enlisting as a member of the crew of the cruiser Balaeres, which was nearing completion.[29] He promised to abstain from political activities, but Franco refused, believing that he would become a figurehead for the Alfonsists who held a strong presence in the military.[29]
Military
Army of Africa
Army of Africa
The Army of Africa was a field army garrisoned in Spanish Morocco - a legacy of the Rif War - under the command of General Francisco Franco. It consisted of the Spanish Foreign Legion and the Regulares, infantry and cavalry units recruited from the population of Spanish Morocco and with Spanish officers as commanders.
The Regulares operated as the shock troops of the National forces in exchange for a substantial pay. More than 13,000 Moroccan troops were airlifted on 20 Junkers Ju 52 planes supplied by Hitler between the beginning of the conflict in July and October 1936. Their proverbial cruelty and reckless behaviour were not random, but were part of a calculated plan of the Francoist military leaders in order to instill terror in the Republican defence lines.[30]
Civil Guard
Foreign support
Italy
Fascist Italy
Italy under the Fascist leadership of Benito Mussolini supported the overthrow of the republic and the establishment of a regime that would serve as a client state to Italy. Italy distrusted the Spanish Republic due to its pro-French leanings and prior to the war had made contact with Spanish right-wing groups.[31] Italy justified its intervention as an action intended to prevent the rise of Bolshevism in Spain.[32] Italy's Fascist regime considered the threat of Bolshevism a real risk with the arrival of volunteers from the Soviet Unionwho were fighting for the Republicans.[33] Mussolini provided financial support as well as training to the Alfonsists, Carlists, and Falange.[20]Mussolini met Falangist leader José Antonio Primo de Rivera in 1933 but did not have much enthusiasm in the establishment of fascism in Spain at that time.[7]
By January 1937, an expeditionary force of 35,000 Italians, the Corpo Truppe Volontarie, were in Spain under the command of General Mario Roatta.[22] The contingent was made up of four divisions: Littorio, Dio lo Vuole ("God Wills it"), Fiamme Nere ("Black Flames") and Penne Nere ("Black Feathers"). The first of these divisions was made up of soldiers; the other three of Blackshirt volunteers.[34] Italy provided the National forces with fighter and bomber aircraft which played a significant part in the war.[22] In March 1937, Italy intervened in the political affairs of the Nationals by sending Roberto Farinacci to Spain to urge Franco to unite the National political movements into one fascist "Spanish National Party".[35]
Germany
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany provided the Nationals with material, specialists, and a powerful air force contingent, the Condor Legion German expeditionary forces that provided airlift of soldiers and material from Spanish Africa to Peninsular Spain and provided offensive operations against Republican forces.[22] The Spanish Civil War would provide an ideal testing ground for the proficiency of the new weapons produced during the German re-armament. Many aeronautical bombing techniques were tested by the Condor Legion against the Republican Government on Spanish soil with the permission of Generalísimo Franco. Hitler insisted, however, that his long-term designs were peaceful, a strategy labelled as "Blumenkrieg" (Flower War).[36]
Germany had important economic interests at stake in Spain, as Germany imported large amounts of mineral ore from Spanish Morocco.[37] The Nazi regime sent retired General Wilhelm Faulpel as ambassador to Franco's regime, Faulpel supported Franco and the Falange in the hope that they would create a Nazi-like regime in Spain.[38] Debt owed by Franco and the Nationals to Germany rose quickly upon purchasing German material, and required financial assistance from Germany as the Republicans had access to Spain's gold reserve.[38]
Portugal
Portuguese Republic
Upon the outbreak of the civil war, Portuguese Prime Minister António de Oliveira Salazaralmost immediately supported the National forces.[39] Salazar's Estado Novo regime held tense relations with the Spanish Republic that held Portuguese dissidents to his regime in it.[40] Portugal played a critical role in supplying Franco’s forces with ammunition and many other logistical resources.[41]Despite its discreet direct military involvement — restrained to a somewhat "semi-official" endorsement, by its authoritarian regime, of an 8,000–12,000-strong volunteer force, the so-called "Viriatos" — for the whole duration of the conflict, Portugal was instrumental in providing the National faction with a vital logistical organization and by reassuring Franco and his allies that no interference whatsoever would hinder the supply traffic directed to the Nationals, crossing the borders of the two Iberian countries — the Nationals used to refer to Lisbon as "the port of Castile".[42] In 1938, with Franco's victory increasingly certain, Portugal recognized Franco's regime and after the war in 1939 signed a treaty of friendship and non-aggression pact that was known as the Iberian Pact.[39] Portugal played an important diplomatic role in supporting the Franco regime, including by insisting to the United Kingdom that Franco sought to replicate Salazar's Estado Novo and not Mussolini's Fascist Italy.[40]
Vatican City
Vatican City
Among many influential Catholics in Spain, mainly composed of conservative Traditionalists and people belonging to pro-Monarchic groups, the religious persecution was squarely and based on evidence probably rightly mostly blamed on the government of the Republic. The ensuing outrage was used after the 1936 coup by the nationalist/monarchist faction and readily extended itself. The Catholic Church took the side of the rebel government and defined the religious Spaniards who had been persecuted in Republican areas as ‘martyrs of the faith’. The devout Catholics who supported the Spanish Republic, included high-ranking officers of the Popular Army such as republican Catholic general Vicente Rojo Lluch, as well as the Catholic Basque nationalists who opposed the rebel faction.[43]
Initially the Vatican held itself from declaring too openly its support of the rebel side in the war, although it had long allowed high ecclesiastical figures in Spain to do so and to define the conflict as a 'Crusade'. Throughout the war, however, Francoist propaganda and influential Spanish Catholics labelled the secular Republic as "the enemy of God and the Church" and denounced the Republic, holding it responsible for anti-clerical activities, such as shutting down Catholic schools, as well as the killing of priests and nuns by exalted mobs and the desecration of religious buildings.[44]
Forsaken by the Western European powers, the republican side mainly depended from Soviet military assistance, which played into the hands of the portrayal of the Spanish Republic as a 'Marxist' and godless state in the Francoist propaganda. By means of its extensive diplomatic network the Holy See used its influence to lobby for the rebel side. During an International Art Exhibition in Paris in 1937, in which both the Francoist and the Republican governments were present, the Holy See allowed the Nationalist pavilion to display its exhibition under the Vatican flag, for the rebel government's flag was still not recognized.[45] By 1938, the Vatican City had already officially recognized Franco's Spanish State, being one of the first to do so.[46]
Regarding the position of the Holy See during and after the Civil War, Manuel Montero, lecturer of the University of the Basque Countrycommented on 6 May 2007:[47]
The Church, which upheld the idea of a 'National Crusade' in order to legitimize the military rebellion, was a belligerentpart during the Civil War, even at the cost of alienating part of its members. It continues in a belligerent role in its unusual answer to the Historical Memory Law by recurring to the beatification of 498 “martyrs” of the Civil War. The priests executed by Franco's Army are not counted among them. It continues to be a Church that is incapable of transcending its one-sided behaviour of 70 years ago and amenable to the fact that this past should always haunt us. In this political use of granting religious recognition one can perceive its indignation regarding the compensations to the victims of Francoism. Its selective criteria regarding the religious persons that were part of its ranks are difficult to fathom. The priests who were victims of the republicans are “martyrs who died forgiving”, but those priests who were executed by the Francoists are forgotten.
Other supporters
1,000 to 2,000 English, Irish, French, Russian "Whites", Polish, Romanian, and Belgian volunteers came to Spain to fight on the side of the Nationals.[48]
See also
Republican faction (Spanish Civil War)
Spanish Republican Armed Forces
Notes
The term "Nationalists" is the most often used in English-language media, while the Spanish term is nacionales, "nationals".
References
Antony Beevor (2006) [1982]. The Battle for Spain. Orion. ISBN 978-0-7538-2165-7.
Juan Eslava Galán, Una Historia de la Guerra Civil que no va a Gustar a Nadie, Ed. Planeta. 2005. ISBN 8408058835 p. 9-12
Nerín, Gustau. La guerra que vino de África. Editorial Crítica, 2005. ISBN 8484326187, p. 195
El Pais - Rebeldes, sublevados o franquistas; no nacionales
Ángel Bahamonde & Javier Cervera Gil, Así terminó la Guerra de España, Marcial Pons, Madrid 1999, ISBN 84-95379-00-7
Julián Casanova, República y Guerra Civil. in Historia de España, directed by Josep Fontana y Ramón Villares. Vol. 8, Barcelona: 2007
Eslava Galan, Juan. "Penne Nere (Pena Negra)". Una historia de la Guerra Civil que no va a gustar a nadie [A History Of The Spanish Civil War That No-one Will Like] (in Spanish). Planeta.
Paul Preston. The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution & Revenge. 3rd edition. W. W. New York, New York, USA: Norton & Company, Inc, 2007. 2006 Pp. 200.
Evidenced in a January 1937 speech prior to the outcry over the bombing of the Basque city of Guernica, known by the Luftwaffe as Operation Rügen. Hitler speech to Reichstag 30 January 1937 available via the German Propaganda Archive.
Antony Beevor, The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939,
Stanley G. Payne. The Franco regime, 1936–1975. Madison, Wisconsin, USA; London, England, UK: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. Pp. 156.
Manuel Montero a El País, 6/5/2007, «Otros "mártires" de la Guerra Civil»
Fighting for Franco: International Volunteers in Nationalist Spain during the Spanish Civil War. Pp. vi, viii.
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Los historiadores, contra Margallo por negarse a abrir los archivos
El presidente del Gobierno español, Mariano Rajoy, dio la callada por respuesta a una incómoda pregunta de un periodista argentino durante su visita al Parque de la Memoria, en Buenos Aires, que rinde homenaje a las víctimas de la dictadura argentina. "Presidente, ¿va a hacer algo con los crímenes del franquismo?", le espetó este miércoles un periodista al jefe del Ejecutivo español mientras este firmaba en el libro de honor.
Tras pronunciar una conferencia sobre la política exterior española en América Latina a la que asistió el presidente argentino, Mauricio Macri, Rajoy acudió al Parque de la Memoria, que rinde tributo a los desaparecidos y asesinados en Argentina en el periodo 1969-1983, e hizo una ofrenda lanzando flores al Río de la Plata. Recorrió los muros del espacio en los que figuran los nombres de las víctimas y, tras su ofrenda floral, escribió en el libro de honor: "Mi testimonio de admiración y reconocimiento a todos los que dieron su vida por la libertad y los derechos de todos".
Mientras firmaba, el periodista le preguntó qué pasaba con los crímenes de Franco y si iba a haber "un museo así" (como el espacio bonaerense en el que se encontraban) en España. Un espontáneo le respondió gritando: "¡Vete a la mierda, coño! ¿Y con los de los comunistas qué?".
más: https://www.elperiodico.com/es/politica/20180412/pregunta-periodista-argentina-rajoy-crimenes-franquismo-6754257
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