{"id":31713,"date":"2018-02-28T10:25:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T15:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31713"},"modified":"2018-02-28T10:25:40","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T15:25:40","slug":"its-feeling-like-the-1930s-in-spain-and-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31713","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Feeling Like the 1930s in Spain and France"},"content":{"rendered":"<header><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" title=\"It\u2019s Feeling Like the 1930s in Spain and France\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/images\/news\/2018\/02\/28\/or-40390.jpg\" alt=\"It\u2019s Feeling Like the 1930s in Spain and France\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2018\/02\/28\/its-feeling-like-1930s-spain-france.html\">It\u2019s Feeling Like the 1930s in Spain and France<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<p>During the Spanish Civil War, many loyalist leaders and supporters of the Spanish Republican government fled into exile to wage their battle against the Spanish fascist dictatorship of Generalissimo Francisco Franco from abroad. 2018 is beginning to feel like 1939. After the fall of the Second Spanish Republic to Franco, who was aided by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, Spanish President Manuel Aza\u00f1a and Prime Minister Juan Negrin fled to exile in France. Following the October 27, 2017 declaration of independence of Catalonia by the Catalan Parliament and the dissolution of the Catalonian government by Franco\u2019s proto-fascist successor, Spanish Prime Minister Manuel Rajoy, key members of the Catalonian government fled into exile. The President of the Catalonian Generalitat (Prime Minister) Carles Puigdemont and four of his ministers fled to Belgium to avoid arrest by Rajoy\u2019s security forces.<\/p>\n<p>Other Catalonian leaders were imprisoned in Madrid, where they await trials on sedition and rebellion charges. The leader of the pro-independence Popular Unity Candidature (CUP), Anna Gabriel, attained political asylum in Switzerland, where she told the Swiss newspaper\u00a0Le Temps, \u201cI will not go to Madrid . . . Since I will not have a fair trial at home, I have looked for a country that can protect my rights.\u201d As with the loyalists imprisoned under Franco, the Catalan independence leaders, who enjoy a majority in the newly-elected Catalonian parliament, face decades in Spanish prison cells under Madrid\u2019s EU-supported regime.<\/p>\n<p>Rajoy, like Franco, appointed not a Catalonian but a Spanish Castilian, Deputy Prime Minister Mar\u00eda Soraya S\u00e1enz de Santamar\u00eda Ant\u00f3n, as acting President of the Generalitat in Barcelona. Rajoy, as was the case with Franco, has Galician roots. Franco\u2019s rule was infamous for stamping out Catalonian government, language, culture, and national identity and Rajoy, whose Spanish People\u2019s Party is the ideological and chronological heir to Franco\u2019s Falangists, does his very best to emulate his party\u2019s ideological forbearer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s Feeling Like the 1930s in Spain and France During the Spanish Civil War, many loyalist leaders and supporters of the Spanish Republican government fled into exile to wage their battle against the Spanish fascist dictatorship of Generalissimo Francisco Franco from abroad. 2018 is beginning to feel like 1939. 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