# Great historical blunders that were actually good decisions.

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**Created:** [November 21, 2009, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-historical-blunders-that-were-actually-good-decisions/518468 "2009-11-21T23:34:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-historical-blunders-that-were-actually-good-decisions/518468/61 "2009-12-08T02:20:16Z")

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> [@villa](#):
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> Then I guess you are showing once again your support for fascism. Through the policy of isolation, any hope for the democratic left in Spain disappeared. The only avenue of support available was from Stalin. Mild dictatorship my arse.

To be fair, while Franco had much fascist support at home and abroad, he was not himself a fascist and did not establish a fascist government. He was much more old-fashioned than that. “A cop, not an artist.” Quite a repressive dictator in his own way, though.

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