They also mass executed Catholics and Catholic leadership.
Even this kind of undersells the things they did to the Catholics. There are many occasions of them digging up the corpses of dead priest and nuns from graveyards, and then placing them "on trial" for "crimes against humanity", and then destroying the bones.
This is why people considered Franco at least tolerable compared to the Socialist.
Even that was only one part of the problem. That was light compared to shit they were still doing to people. The Anarcho-Syndicalists were big fans of torturing people to death publicly and painfully.
The "Red Terror" that they presided over was extremely brutal. They would sometimes "liberate" Catholic churches, by pulling everyone out of the church while it was in session, then dragging the nuns and priests out up against the church wall and machine gunning them to death in front of the congregation. Then they burned the church, and told all the perishers that they had been "liberated" from the "opiate of the masses".
Even this kind of undersells the things they did to the Catholics. There are many occasions of them digging up the corpses of dead priest and nuns from graveyards, and then placing them "on trial" for "crimes against humanity", and then destroying the bones.
This is why people considered Franco at least tolerable compared to the Socialist.
Even that was only one part of the problem. That was light compared to shit they were still doing to people. The Anarcho-Syndicalists were big fans of torturing people to death publicly and painfully.
The "Red Terror" that they presided over was extremely brutal. They would sometimes "liberate" Catholic churches, by pulling everyone out of the church while it was in session, then dragging the nuns and priests out up against the church wall and machine gunning them to death in front of the congregation. Then they burned the church, and told all the perishers that they had been "liberated" from the "opiate of the masses".