I did not intent to offend anyone, the use of the word “nazis” was not gratuitous in this case, not at all.
In Spain the falangist party is the equivalent to the nazi party in Germany:
So it would have been more accurate to say that the falangists won the war and were allowed to keep their power positions in the transition to “democracy”.
Spain is the second country in the world after Cambodia with most mass graves, it is estimated that there are still 120.000 unidentified victims of the genocide perpetrated by the fascist dictator franco. These criminals have not been punished nor the victims recognized, because the actual criminals were allowed to stay in power.
I was just explaining that the authoritarianism of the Spanish state and police brutality should not come as a surprise once you understand that the power structures of the fascist state were allowed to survive intact in their transition to “democracy”. It also helps to explain the peculiarities of the Spanish constitution and the tolerance to far-right and downright fascist attitudes in Spanish society today.
