Everyone knows that the Good Guys lost the Spanish Civil War, right? After all, Francisco Franco--who led Spain following the end of that war--was a Bad Guy. No less a historian than Chevy Chase says so!
Yah, well, what the real history tells you is this: Communist tactics never change. See for yourself!
The Bishops of Spain have been working on the real history for quite some time.
...Echoing the words of Pius XI’s Divini Redemptoris, which
described communism as “intrinsically perverse,” the Spanish bishops
tell a story entirely different from those handed down by the
mainstream. The main thrust of the letter is what one hardly ever reads
anywhere, and certainly not in school books: an indictment of the
stealthy communist penetration into the public arena, heavily financed
by the U.S.S.R. for years [in the USA today it's the Chinese Communists] before the Nationalists ever reacted by
seeking help from the dictators of Italy and Germany.
“On July 18, 1936, the military revolt took place,” wrote the
bishops, “and the war which is still ongoing broke out. But be it noted,
first, that the military revolt was not produced, from its beginnings,
without the collaboration of the sound element among the people, which
joined the Movement in great numbers, and it can therefore be qualified
as a civic-military movement.”...
...the massacres did not begin in 1936, as a result of the conflict
between, on the one hand, the left-wing parties that had “won” the
elections and, on the other hand, their nationalist opponents — but much
earlier, out of an unprecedentedly brutal religious persecution carried
out by well-trained communists, anarchists and socialists, who were
determined to wipe out the Catholic Church in its entirety.
Elected to office in 1931, the
leftist factions, under the common name of republicans, once having done
away with the monarchy, immediately created a climate of anti-Catholic
hatred which culminated in the burning down of churches and the
cold-blooded murder of countless priests, bishops, nuns, seminarians and
laity....
... the left worked on corroding social relationships, emptying out the
economy, weakening the police forces, and then filling the void with
ideas meant to support and perpetuate the revolution....
The correct wording? "...degrading or eliminating family relationships.." and ".....filling the void with lies, pomps, works, and empty promises ..."
... “at the parliamentary elections of February 1936, despite a majority of
more than half a million votes over the Left, the Right had 118 fewer
deputies than the Popular Front, because the votes of entire provinces
had been canceled at will, thus corrupting at its source the legitimacy
of Parliament.”...
Gee. Vote-tally manipulation and "re-districting." Sounds familiar, right?
...On the 1st of May hundreds of young people in Madrid publicly amassed
“bombs and guns, powder and dynamite for the coming revolution.” On the
16th of that same month, there was a meeting between the envoys from the
U.S.S.R. with the Spanish delegates from the Third International at the
“People’s House” in Valencia, where it was determined, in the ninth of
their agreements, to entrust No. 25 of the Madrid “Radios” Committees,
together with the policemen on duty, with the task of the elimination of the political and military personages destined to play an important role in the counter-revolution ...
May Day!.....and the St. George riots.....also note the elevated threat-levels against Trump's Cabinet, SCOTUS picks, and Trump himself.
...To prove their contention that “the massacre of people and things by the
communist revolution was premeditated,” the bishops also specified that
“79 specialized agitators had arrived from Russia shortly before the
uprising. ...
This next part hasn't happened here. Yet. It's the "Terrorism" stage.*
... we can safely say that about 20,000 churches have been destroyed or
totally ransacked. The priests who have been put to death, even just
limiting the count to the secular clergy, amount to about six thousand....
... Women were violated, showing no respect even for the ones who had
consecrated themselves to God. Tombs and cemeteries were desecrated.
This work of destruction was carried out with the battle cry ‘Long live
Russia!’, under the banner of international communism…”...
There's another parallel here, but in the USA it's not the Church which is the target:
...The worldwide disinformation campaign, financed directly by Moscow, used
the classical subversion technique of the left: blaming the tragedy on
the victim, i.e. placing the Catholic Church in the defendant’s docket,
so that, after having completely destroyed her material presence, they
might succeed in annihilating her reputation as well. ...
The tactics are the same. Organize, make ridiculous promises, get well-financed, build stocks of weapons, terrorize & assassinate, blame the victim(s), make empty promises, degrade family relationships, and attack the Church.
Trump's call-out of Communists was not a flight of fancy. He is right. The Press--of course--ridicules him, just as their predecessor Hemingway did about Franco.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
*The Other McCain has something on that.
...I obtained a samizdat copy of “The Soviet Strategy of
Terror,” [authored by Sam Francis] but it’s packed away in my papers somewhere in the garage, so I
can’t quote it, however the key insight is this: The Soviet Union, in
its worldwide warfare against the West, sponsored terrorist activity as
part of a general strategy. In other words, terrorism wasn’t merely a tactic,
but had deep roots in the Communist worldview, by which its use was
justified, and was employed to destabilize conditions in such a way as
to foment revolutionary upheaval and advance Soviet interests.
What is terrorism? It is the use of violence for political purposes,
and is akin to guerrilla warfare — “insurgency,” as we are now wont to
call it. Guerrilla warfare is used by those who, unable to defeat a
stronger opponent through open combat between regular military forces,
engage in raids and ambushes, then return to concealment among the
civilian population. The distinction between guerrilla warfare and an
organized terrorist campaign can be difficult to make....
Burning the churches, killing the priests, raping the nuns.......we call that "terrorism."
To repeat: Trump is right. Did he read Sam Francis?
Maybe he did.
