Ever-Wandering Souls wrote:...Despite remaining “neutral” in the ensuing world war, [the actual Franco]'s Spain sent thousands of volunteers to fight alongside the axis powers. Meanwhile, during and following the Spanish Civil War, la Represión franquista (The Francoist Repression) performed a “cleansing” of political opponents, union leaders, teachers, Freemasons, homosexuals, and other groups it deemed undesirable, in which hundreds of thousands were interned, tens of thousands were executed, and hundreds of thousands more were exiled to France, many of whom would eventually be sent to Nazi concentration camps under the Vichy government....
Besides being of a frankly disgusting root namesake...
Uh huh. Allow me to add:
If you have any humanity in you, you'll rename your silly gameplay ideology to something that doesn't pay tribute to one of the more sickening episodes in the already horrifying history of humans being ghastly to each other.
...The Great Pacific, backed by 2-3 other feeders, their NPO branches in multiple other games, and the allies of their branches in other games, failed to militarily out-pile a bunch of nobody UCR's backed by just one (amazing) feeder, but ultimately won the skirmish nonetheless with a just-in-time delegate return. It won't be the last time these sides meet, for war has now begun.
This series of events and masterful propaganda piece comes within a hair's breadth of making me, an Anarchy native, GA enthusiast, and R/D ignorer par excellence, want to join up. Go git 'em.
To who's being accused?
