Some data indicating that Spanish socialism hates Franco because he was not a communist

Rejection of a dictatorship seems to me to be a very respectable attitude when it is held by a person who rejects any type of dictatorship.

Sánchez's selective memory: his government maintains medals to communist dictators
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The phrase with which I begin these lines is also applicable to Francoism. The rejection of that dictatorship seems to me respectable and coherent when it is practiced by those who do not support or justify other dictatorships. This is not the case with Spanish socialism. It is enough to review some facts that anyone can verify:

• In 2021, the PSOE voted against the European resolution that condemned the crimes of Nazism and Communism in 2019, a resolution that recalled that these totalitarian regimes committed "mass murders, genocides and deportations." During the parliamentary debate, the socialists praised communists like Santiago Carrillo, responsible for the Paracuellos massacre, granting them the title of "freedom fighters".
• The PSOE awarded the Senate's gold medal to two communist dictators, Kostantin Chernenko (in 1984) and Fidel Castro (in 1988). These medals were awarded when the socialists had an absolute majority in the upper house of the Spanish Parliament. Both medals have never been withdrawn.
• The PSOE has promoted laws that penalize the glorification of Francoism but not the glorification of communist dictatorships, despite the fact that the latter regimes killed many more people than the Franco dictatorship.
• The PSOE maintains cordial relations with the Communist Party of China, which is the single party of the largest dictatorship in the world, an anti-democratic regime that has been governing that country since 1949 without free elections and systematically violating human rights.
• In 2021, the PSOE voted against a European resolution condemning repression in Cuba, a communist dictatorship established in 1959 that continues to govern that country with a single-party regime, without free elections and imposing brutal repression against the democratic opposition.

Under these conditions, when Pedro Sánchez says that his government will organize one hundred events to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Franco's death, he is not only announcing an immense smokescreen paid for by all taxpayers to cover up the socialists' corruption scandals, but he also intends to celebrate this anniversary not because Franco was a dictator, but because he was not a communist, which is the real reason for socialism's hatred of the victor of the Spanish Civil War.

If they really thought it was wrong that Franco was a dictator, the socialists would condemn other dictatorships much worse than Franco's, starting with the totalitarian regime of their friends the Chinese communists. But they don't. Let us never forget that Francisco Largo Caballero advocated a dictatorship when he was president of the PSOE. This party has never rejected those words from its top leader during the Second Republic. On the contrary: in 2022, Sánchez promised to imitate Largo Caballero. Using Franco to cover up the PSOE's anti-democratic attitude is something infamous, but it fits perfectly into the vile tradition of Spanish socialism.