GONZALO DE AGUILERA

It was this perverted logic that led the Nationalists to adopt a policy of killing lower class and poor workers. Though there were communists in Spain at the time, most of the peasants and the abject poor had little or no political philosophy or education. More sophisticated Nationalist apologists observed that the ultra poor were easily enlisted into left-wing causes like communism, so their elimination before the fact was a preventive technique.

The Nationalist/Fascist views in the Spanish Civil War were so gross that they actually hurt the Nationalist cause in International opinion. See {592113} for another example. Despite the facts, most of the Western world was not then knowledgeable about the evils of Fascism and distrusted democracy, socialism, and communism more.

It was this perverted logic that led the Nationalists to adopt a policy of killing lower class and poor workers. Though there were communists in Spain at the time, most of the peasants and the abject poor had little or no political philosophy or education. More sophisticated Nationalist apologists observed that the ultra poor were easily enlisted into left-wing causes like communism, so their elimination before the fact was a preventive technique.

The Nationalist/Fascist views in the Spanish Civil War were so gross that they actually hurt the Nationalist cause in International opinion. See {592113} for another example. Despite the facts, most of the Western world was not then knowledgeable about the evils of Fascism and distrusted democracy, socialism, and communism more.