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(1) True, though surely the commonplace notion that he was nothing more than an "evil Catholic fanatic" is itself hysterical and emotional?
(2) It is estimated that around 500,000 people in Spain were killed by Franco and his supporters, some of them in the context of the Civil War and others in mass executions in the years/decades following. At least within mainland Portugal - the colonies of course were another matter - I am not aware of Salazar's regime being guilty of anything comparable to that. And in what way is the contemporary Left in Spain more radical than in Portugal?
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