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Originally Posted by Halm
From what I found, in particular he went after the Basque and Catalan secs. So maybe "ethnicity" is a better word than racial???
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Hmm.
The Basque fought for both sides in the civil war. Franco was not inherently opposed.
The issues were more one of Basque independence. They live in an area with natural Geographic barriers to the rest of Spain, and also speak a different language.
The Catalan were strongly anarcho-communists and were very much against the organized government Franco was fighting for. The Stalin backed Communists had a "May Day" to kill/torture/imprison the Catalan leaders rather than allow their free state.
Catalan got the short of the stick from both sides.