Francisco FrancoGeneralissimo Francisco Franco Bahamonde aka "El Caudillo" (The Leader).See also Adolf Hitler, Evita Peron, Otto Skorzeny Dictator of Spain for decades, until 1974.
"Our regime is based on bayonets and blood, not on hypocritical elections." You know, nothing quite says "civil war" like mass graves... which are conveniently located all over Spain, courtesy of the Generalissimo.
Outlawed Freemasonry in March 1940.
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