The Valley of the Fallen and the stolid left

March 5 2018 (17:22 WET)

 

The Spanish left is the most sectarian and radical of all that exist in the world. I use this statement because of its approach to the mausoleum of the dictator Francisco Franco, even though the tyrant applied clear socialist policies.

Whenever something is analyzed, as I do with this issue in this article, it must be done taking different references, the references I have used on this occasion being the mausoleums of socialist dictators in other countries.

Lenin's mummy is in a mausoleum in Red Square in Moscow, Stalin's remains are near Lenin's mausoleum, in the necropolis of the Kremlin wall. Mao Zedong's mummy is in the mausoleum in Tiananmen Square in Beijing and Kim II-Sung's is in the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun in Pyonyang. Hugo Chávez's corpse lies in the "Flower of the Four Elements" in the Mountain Barracks of Caracas. Che Guevara is in the Santa Clara mausoleum and Fidel Castro in Santa Ifigenia, Santiago de Cuba, where every 30 minutes there is a respectful and ceremonious changing of the guard. And Napoleon Bonaparte, the one of "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity", is in a formidable sarcophagus in the Invalides Palace in Paris.

The megalomaniacs, admired by the Spanish left, named in the previous paragraph have the common denominators of having been genocidal, dictators, coup plotters, populists and, in principle, all inspired by socialist ideas. Their mausoleums and tombs are objects of worship, pilgrimage and recognition, as well as unequivocal symbols of the local and world left, including of course the Spanish one. Moreover, these places are hot tourist spots and are managed with national pride by the countries that host them, to the point that no one would think of eliminating them because of a hypothetical historical revision that would highlight the atrocities committed in their day by the monsters that gave life to the corpses that are even shown in them.

In Spain, the left falls into a deep incoherence because at the same time that it glorifies and admires the mausoleums of those great genocides named, and with whom it identifies without a doubt, it denounces the Valley of the Fallen. José Antonio Primo de Rivera, a convinced socialist, and Francisco Franco, a dictator whose policies were imbued with socialism, lie in that immense mausoleum in the Sierra de Guadarrama in the municipality of San Lorenzo de El Escorial next to another 33,833 dead from both sides of the civil war, since the monument was erected in memory of all. While the Spanish left complains about how little there is for everything, its absurd proposal on the closure of the Valley of the Fallen would cost hundreds of millions of euros.

Hopefully the fanatical and obtuse Spanish left would respect the Valley of the Fallen as it respects any of the other mausoleums of socialist dictators, all of them worse than Francisco Franco, from Russia, China, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela or France, when it visits them enraptured and excited.

 

By Sigfrid Soria 

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