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	{{Infobox politician\|name=Francisco Franco\|birth_date=4 December 1892\|birth_place=Ferrol, [[Spanish State\|Spain]]\|death_date=20 November 1975 (aged 82)\|death_place=Madrid, Spain\|nationality=Spanish\|political_orientation=[[Fascism]]<br>[[Falangism]]\|political_party=[[FET y de las JONS]]\|image=RETRATO DEL GRAL. FRANCISCO FRANCO BAHAMONDE (adjusted levels).jpg}}		{{Infobox politician\|name=Francisco Franco\|birth_date=4 December 1892\|birth_place=Ferrol, [[Spanish State\|Spain]]\|death_date=20 November 1975 (aged 82)\|death_place=[[Madrid]], Spain\|nationality=Spanish\|political_orientation=[[Fascism]]<br>[[Falangism]]\|political_party=[[FET y de las JONS]]\|image=RETRATO DEL GRAL. FRANCISCO FRANCO BAHAMONDE (adjusted levels).jpg}}

	'''Francisco Franco Bahamonde''', was a [[Spanish State (1939-1975)\|Spanish]] military general who ruled Spain under a fascist dictatorship from 1939, when he seized power following the [[Spanish Civil War]], until his death in 1975.<ref name=":0">{{Citation\|year=1977\|chapter=Franco, Francisco\|chapter-url=https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Franco,+Francisco~~\|title=[[Great Soviet Encyclopedia]] (3rd ed.)\|volume=27~~\|page=618~~\|city=Moscow~~\|pdf=https://ia804601.us.archive.org/2/items/B-001-032-507-748-ALL/БСЭ_3изд_т27_604.pdf\|trans-title=Boljšaja sovjetskaja enciklopjedija\|trans-lang=Russian}}</ref> Franco's ~~brutal~~ dictatorship was ~~supported~~ by the [[Imperial core\|west]], as ~~they saw~~ the ~~ideology~~, ~~not dissimilar to their own~~, ~~as a useful tool against~~ [[~~communism~~]]. ~~Under~~ him, Spain ~~was declared~~ a [[~~Monarchy~~\|~~kingdom~~]]~~, though~~ the ~~Spanish king only took power after~~ Franco's ~~death~~.<ref name =":0" />		'''Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco Bahamonde''' (4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a [[Spanish State (1939-1975)\|Spanish]] military general who ruled Spain under a fascist dictatorship from 1939, when he seized power following the [[Spanish Civil War]], until his death in 1975. Franco's brutal dictatorship was supported by the [[Imperial core\|west]], as they saw the ideology, not dissimilar to their own, as a useful tool against [[communism]]. Under him, Spain was declared a [[Monarchy\|kingdom]], though the Spanish king only took power after Franco's death.<ref name=":0">{{Citation\|year=1977\|title=[[Great Soviet Encyclopedia]] (3rd ed.)\|chapter=Franco, Francisco\|chapter-url=https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Franco,+Francisco\|page=618\|pdf=https://ia804601.us.archive.org/2/items/B-001-032-507-748-ALL/БСЭ_3изд_т27_604.pdf\|city=Moscow\|volume=27\|trans-title=Boljšaja sovjetskaja enciklopjedija\|trans-lang=Russian}}</ref>

			== Early life ==
			Franco was born on 4 December 1892 in Ferrol, a small town on the northern coast of Galicia. He was the second of five children and was born into a family of naval officers. His childhood ingrained him an obsession with duty, routine, and [[Catholicism]], which was exaserbated by his father's abdandoment of his family.<ref name=":1">{{Web citation\|author=Duncan Wheeler\|newspaper=[[Jacobin (magazine)\|Jacobin]]\|title=Franco’s Hometown Struggles With an Inglorious Past\|date=2025-11-20\|url=https://jacobin.com/2025/11/franco-hometown-ferrol-spain-dictatorship\|archive-date=}}</ref>

			== Military career ==
			When he was barely a teenager, Franco left his home to enrol in the military academy in Toledo.<ref name=":1" />

			Franco was one of the main leaders of the 1936 military insurrection against the elected left wing government of Spain, sparking the Spanish Civil War. The war caused the deaths of half a million people and even after winning it Franco had as many as 20,000 people executed afterwards.<ref name=":2">{{Web citation\|author=Giles Tremlett\|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]\|title=Spain has too rosy a view of Franco’s regime. Let’s remind ourselves of its horrors\|date=2025-11-21\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/21/spain-rosy-view-franco-regime-horrors#comments\|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251121055949/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/21/spain-rosy-view-franco-regime-horrors#comments\|archive-date=2025-11-21}}</ref>

			== Caudillo of Spain ==
			After his victory Franco stylised himself as almost a [[Monarchism\|monarch]] type figure, setting up his administration in the former royal palace, El Pardo.<ref name=":1" /> Franco wished to restore the Spanish Empire, and aimed to make Spain great again by blaming foreigners, [[Judaism\|Jews]], [[Marxism\|Marxists]] and [[Freemasons]] for the failing Spanish economy. In the early years of Spanish rule, Franco consolidated his power over every aspect of Spanish life, believing himself to be the saviour of Spain, and embraced [[Autarky]], shunning foreign [[capital]] and goods in favour of self reliance. These policies led to a famine with even his [[German Reich (1933–1945)\|Nazi]] allies complaining about his incompetency.<ref name=":2" />

			Due to his support for the Axis during the [[World War II\|Second World War]], despite not actually joining the war, Franco's Spain became a pariah state after their defeat, but with the begginning of the [[Cold War]], the [[United States of America\|U.S.]] was happy to rehabilitate his [[Anti-communism\|anti-communist]] regime, no matter how much the people of Spain suffered. The U.S. and the [[International Monetary Fund\|IMF]] rescued Spain's economy, and by the 60s Spain had been fully embraced by the [[Imperial core\|west]], with tourists and money rolling in. During this time Franco dropped some of his more bizzare ideas such as making synthetic gasoline with a “magic” formula, but his absolute control over the country with laws inspired by [[Joseph Goebbels]] remained.<ref name=":2" />

			As late as the 70s, [[Political party\|political parties]], [[Trade union\|trade unions]] and elections remained banned whilst Spaniards were educated in ultra-conservative schools. The fear driven society started to break down during the last decade of his rule, which Franco responded to by increasing his violent domination of the country, which had been somewhat relaxed by liberalization. Trigger-happy police, torture, firing squads and medieval torture methods returned and, yet when Franco finally died, much of Spain's population was saddened by Franco's death and feared what their country would become without him.<ref name=":2" />

			After a prolonged illness and a battle with Parkinson’s disease, Franco died peacefully in a Madrid hospital on 20 November 1975 at the age 82.<ref name=":3">{{Web citation\|author=Alyssa Mcmurtry\|newspaper=Anadolu Agency\|title=50 years after Franco’s death, young Spaniards increasingly support dictatorship\|date=2025-11-20\|url=https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/50-years-after-franco-s-death-young-spaniards-increasingly-support-dictatorship/3749124\|archive-date=}}</ref>

			== Legacy ==
			Following Franco's death, Spain became a liberal democracy, but despite this Spain still struggles to fully condemn Franco and historical misunderstandings about the regime run rampant. Far-right groups such as [[Vox (political party)\|Vox]] and the Francisco Franco National Foundation outright glorify him and Franco's hometown of Ferrol is a site of pilgramage for fascists. A poll in 2025 found that over 1/5 of young people support Franco and this number only continues to increase.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":3" />

	== See also ==		== See also ==
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	==~~Notes~~==		==References==
	<references />		<references />
			[[Category:1892 births]]
			[[Category:1975 deaths]]
	[[Category:Anti-communists]]		[[Category:Anti-communists]]
	[[Category:Dictators]]		[[Category:Dictators]]
	[[Category:Fascists]]		[[Category:Fascists]]
			[[Category:Politicians in Spain]]
	[[Category:Reactionaries]]		[[Category:Reactionaries]]
			[[Category:Spanish fascists]]

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	'''Francisco Franco Bahamonde''', was a [[Spanish State (1939-1975)\|Spanish]] military general who ruled Spain under a fascist dictatorship from 1939, when he seized power following the [[Spanish Civil War]], until his death in 1975. ~~Despite ruling a brutal dictatorship~~, Franco's ~~regime~~ was supported by the [[Imperial core\|west]], as they saw the ideology, not dissimilar to their own, as a useful tool against [[communism]].		'''Francisco Franco Bahamonde''', was a [[Spanish State (1939-1975)\|Spanish]] military general who ruled Spain under a fascist dictatorship from 1939, when he seized power following the [[Spanish Civil War]], until his death in 1975.<ref name=":0">{{Citation\|year=1977\|chapter=Franco, Francisco\|chapter-url=https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Franco,+Francisco\|title=[[Great Soviet Encyclopedia]] (3rd ed.)\|volume=27\|page=618\|city=Moscow\|pdf=https://ia804601.us.archive.org/2/items/B-001-032-507-748-ALL/БСЭ_3изд_т27_604.pdf\|trans-title=Boljšaja sovjetskaja enciklopjedija\|trans-lang=Russian}}</ref> Franco's brutal dictatorship was supported by the [[Imperial core\|west]], as they saw the ideology, not dissimilar to their own, as a useful tool against [[communism]]. Under him, Spain was declared a [[Monarchy\|kingdom]], though the Spanish king only took power after Franco's death.<ref name =":0" />

	== See also ==		== See also ==
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	* [[António de Oliveira Salazar]]		* [[António de Oliveira Salazar]]

			==Notes==
			<references />

	[[Category:Anti-communists]]		[[Category:Anti-communists]]

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{{Infobox politician|name=Francisco Franco|birth_date=4 December 1892|birth_place=Ferrol, [[Spanish State|Spain]]|death_date=20 November 1975 (aged 82)|death_place=Madrid, Spain|nationality=Spanish|political_orientation=[[Fascism]]<br>[[Falangism]]|political_party=[[FET y de las JONS]]|image=RETRATO DEL GRAL. FRANCISCO FRANCO BAHAMONDE (adjusted levels).jpg}}

'''Francisco Franco Bahamonde''', was a [[Spanish State (1939-1975)|Spanish]] military general who ruled Spain under a fascist dictatorship from 1939, when he seized power following the [[Spanish Civil War]], until his death in 1975. Despite ruling a brutal dictatorship, Franco's regime was supported by the [[Imperial core|west]], as they saw the ideology, not dissimilar to their own, as a useful tool against [[communism]].

== See also ==

* [[Adolf Hitler]]
* [[Benito Mussolini]]
* [[António de Oliveira Salazar]]

[[Category:Fascists]]

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