Cult of Personalities: Part 4 In other news, Francisco Franco is still alive
One skit that SNL used to love to act out in the 1970s was when they did the news on Francisco Franco still being alive after so many years in power. Francisco Franco would overthrow the democratic republic of Spain in 1939 after the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). A precursor to the next world war that would follow in 1939, Franco successfully aligned himself with Hitler in a way that he did not have to participate in World War II. Mussolini did not get this added benefit; Hitler required Mussolini to fight even after Mussolini gave up on the cause. The Spanish Civil War was bloody and was fought between the far-left wing and the Spanish fascists (Franco would fight alongside other fascists. After the war he would establish the Falangist regime and brutally crackdown on left-wing dissidents. It would not be until the 21st century where is legacy would be dismantled along with everything he fought for in Spain. Franco was born to a Catholic m...
