The “best of Spains” of Pedro Sánchez suffered a coup d'état from his party

Just as the Socialist José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero did, Pedro Sánchez is staking his political survival on sowing discord.

Sánchez proposed acting like a socialist who threatened Spain with a 'civil war'
Sánchez vindicates the founder of the PSOE, who encouraged a coup and supported a dictatorship

The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), currently led by Pedro Sánchez, has long been intent on fueling division among Spaniards: it has devoted enormous effort to reopening old wounds and leading us to believe that the Spanish Civil War was a conflict between the "good" and the "bad," identifying the former with a faction that committed war crimes such as the Paracuellos massacre (claiming the lives of some 5,000 men, women, and children due to their opinions or beliefs), unleashed a fierce anti-Catholic persecution (murdering 13 bishops, 4,184 priests, 2,365 male religious, and 283 female religious—many of whom were also raped), and during which the Left, including the PSOE, organized detention and torture centers (the "chekas") to which even women with babies were sent.

It is certainly alarming for the head of a government that claims to be democratic to identify with all this, yet in Spain, it is nothing new. Let us recall that five years ago, Sánchez proposed acting like a socialist who threatened Spain with a "civil war" if the Right won the election. He was referring to Francisco Largo Caballero, president of the PSOE between 1932 and 1935 and one of the most fanatical, extremist, and violent politicians in the history of Spanish socialism.

That affinity the Socialist leader holds for an anti-democrat like Largo Caballero may explain Sánchez’s utter lack of scruples in striking a deal with those who to this day still fail to condemn the 853 murders committed by the terrorist group ETA —including those of 22 children and infants—or the shameful incident witnessed by all Spaniards in 2021: the PSOE voting alongside the far-left against a European condemnation of the crimes of communism, including mass murders, genocides, and deportations.

This week, the Socialist leader once again displayed his extremism in an interview—which felt more like a softball session—granted to the Televisión Española (TVE) program Mañaneros 360. Sánchez defended the "Democratic Memory Law" (created to impose a leftist view of history on all Spaniards) by stating that "it is a law that recovers and champions the best version of Spain—that of the Second Republic —which suffered a coup d'état at the hands of those whose descendants are now attempting to curtail citizens' rights." With that last remark, Sánchez may well have been making a confession.

Currently, there are deputies in Congress from four parties that existed during the Second Republic: the PSOE, Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC), the Communist Party of Spain (PCE), and the Basque Nationalist Party. Two of those parties —including the PSOE—spearheaded coups d'état against the Second Republic in October 1934. The PSOE did so in Asturias, and the ERC in Catalonia.

For the Socialists, that coup was the fulfillment of the aforementioned threat by Largo Caballero, given that the center-right had won the November 1933 general election and the coup took place when several ministers from the right-wing CEDA party joined the government. The coup plotters murdered 33 priests and religious figures, as well as 300 military personnel and members of the security forces, and also destroyed 17 churches, 40 religious buildings, and dozens of factories, bridges, homes, and public buildings. The PSOE has never apologized for those crimes. That being the case, it is logical to ask: Is this Sánchez's idea of ​​"the best of Spains"? Is this what that Socialist psychopath intends to turn our country into today?

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