Oddjob
Merry fucking Xmas to you assholes
Oh don't get me wrong, there are creeps on all sides. But the Socialists/Communists/Soviets/Maoists/Naxalites are next level evil and just seem to stick around forever. The Fascists/Royalists/Catholics while very good at erasing people, just don't have that demonic stamina for sausage grinding over the long term.Yeah, I don't know about inherent distrust for socialists. Franco was no better than Caballero. Those that committed the White Terror and the Guomindang weren't socialists and neither was Pinochet nor the folk of the GW Bush administration, but I wouldn't trust any of those folk or many others. I find it easier to just not trust people in general, that way you don't miss anything.
I've got to get back and finish Beevor's book on Spain, got distracted at about page 300.
The White Terror was shit but was little leagues compared to the great leap forward and the cultural Revolution. My parents saw China just as the Cultural Revolution ended and couldn't believe how desolate China was. And yet the CCP is still in charge.
Chiang's son introduced parliamentary democracy in Taiwan, and I was there to see the whole country turn out to honour him (voluntarily) on his funeral procession. The same sort of thing happened in Spain, Chile, Argentina, Portugal etc etc. I'm sure the historians have some sort of grouping for these countries like fascist light.
The Spanish civil war is confusing as fuck, the Beevor book tries it's best to make sense of it.
TLDR: one set of assholes want to take the levers of power from the old set of assholes. Unfortunately the new set of assholes have an inner circle of assholes white anting the less noisome new assholes. This allows the old assholes, who have an established pecking order to win.
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