Chapter 443 Jumping God's Spain

The most powerful Catholic country in Europe is not Italy, where the Vatican is located, but Spain. In the history of Europe, the Catholic power of Western Yajiao was famous in Europe for "roasting the living". It is also the only country in Europe that has been invaded and infiltrated by religious forces from Arabia, and finally succeeded in eliminating the religion. In this process, the method used by the Spaniards was the Catholic burning at the stake. But this was a few hundred years ago, and in the twentieth century, when Britain and Germany, relying on the "divine messengers" at the same time, began to enter the world into religious invasions, even the most stubborn bastions of Catholicism felt the pressure enormously.

It was not the Middle Ages, and the Spaniards could no longer use the stake to burn against foreign religions. To make matters worse, it is Britain and Germany, the two most powerful rogue states in Western Europe, that are now carrying out religious invasions of Spain.

In this plane, because of the influence of Linhan, Germany, which had originally supported the Franco regime, switched to support the Republican Army. As a result, the Spanish Civil War was fought longer and more brutally than history, and it was not until the end of 1939 that the winner was decided.

After the end of the war, the whole of Spain was in ruins, and looking at the Spanish land that had been reduced to a wasteland, the Spaniards cried out: "Half of Spain is dead." ”

Historically, Spain relied on World War II to smuggle supplies for Germany and curry favor between the Allies and the Axis powers, and gradually recovered from the creation of the war. But the war in Europe in this plane was only fought for a year, and the Spaniards did not reap much benefit. However, the most valuable war hard currency tungsten ore in Spain was no longer needed because Germany found a large tungsten ore in Austria (note: Austrian Mitsil scheelite ore is a famous large tungsten mine in Europe, but it was not discovered until the fifties in history), and there is no longer a need for Spanish tungsten ore. As a result, three years after the end of the civil war, Spain has been deeply reeling from the traumatic after-effects of the war, and its vitality has never recovered. The whole country was plunged into a state of dazed despair due to the collapse of the national economy and the deep trauma of war.

There is no better object for a religious evangelist than for a person whose future is uncertain and hopeless. When Britain and Germany launched a "religious offensive" against Spain with the help of divine envoys, "half of Spain, which was dead", was powerless to resist.

In just a few months, the power of Catholicism collapsed here. Half of the Catholic churches in Spain have changed their flags. Following the Anglican Church of England and following Artoria, one-third followed the Sephiroth Church, leaving only the last sixth, and still crumblingly barely maintaining the existence of the Catholic Church here.

Slightly different from history, most of the senior government officials in Spain on this plane, including Franco, are Anglo-leaning and British-hugging thighs. But Franco is a man of a generation, and he understands the truth of "balance" very well. While hugging the British thighs. And don't forget to reconcile with Germany. Although during the Spanish Civil War, Germany openly sent volunteers to support the Republican Army, the first element of being a good politician was shamelessness, and Franco knew exactly what to do.

After the end of the war in Europe, Spain, with the help of Germany, succeeded in recovering the centuries-old fortress of Gibraltar, which was the key to the reconciliation between the two countries, and relations between the two countries quickly warmed up after that.

Facing the siege of the city and the land on the Spanish border. The Spanish government is also suffering from the spread of "foreign" religions. Neither England nor Germany is something that the current Spaniards can deal with. The Italian wanted to violently interfere with the mission, but was slapped in the face by the British and Germans, and Franco could see it clearly, and he could only acquiesce in what he could do.

But Franco didn't do nothing, either.

The most effective way to solve the dilemma that Spain is facing now is to get a heroic spirit that belongs to Spain. Well, it should be said that it is a "divine messenger" to come out. In fact, whether it is Britain or the Soviet Union, they all know that this so-called divine envoy is not a messenger sent by God at all, and they all understand that her true essence should be the crystallization of the minds of their own people. But it is necessary for their own interests. They were canonized in the name of God.

Franco was also well aware of the difference between the two.

Franco looked at the widely circulated "Three Elements of the Birth of the Heroic Spirit".

First, it has a long history. Well, this point Spain qualifies.

Second, the country has come to the edge of a precipice. Half of Spain "died" in the civil war, and post-war Spain was miserable enough, and that was enough.

Third, judging from the situation of Britain, Germany, and the Soviet Union, they all have huge fleets sunk, and even China has a destroyed Beiyang navy.

And Spain itself, Franco thought of the destroyed "Armada", and the Spanish Navy, which had ended in the civil war not so long ago.

The Spanish Navy had three Spanish-class battleships, one of which was destroyed in a marine accident before the Civil War, breaking its keel, and the remaining two were sunk in the war.

However, this historical plane, because history has been changed too much by the Lin Han family, the process of the Spanish Civil War is even more unrecognizable, and when the Civil War broke out, all three Spanish-class battleships existed.

Franco got two Spanish-class battleships, while the rival Republican Army got one. However, during the Civil War, a Spanish-class battleship was destroyed by the bombardment of JU87 500 kg bombs supplied by the Germans to the Republican Army, and the other lead ship, the España, survived the civil war. And the one in the hands of the Republican Army destroyed itself when the Republican Army was defeated.

In the brutal civil war, the few warships of the Spanish Navy also suffered heavy losses. In the end, there was only one Spanish ship left to support the façade, and the end was tragic, which can be regarded as meeting the third requirement.

"Delighted" to discover that Spain fully met the conditions for the birth of the "Birth of the Spanish Heroic Spirit", Franco had an idea and had a brilliant idea.

Compared with the Italians' stinky chess of no god and false god, Franco dares to take responsibility. In his letter to the people, he told the Spanish people a "great good news" -- Spain has fully met the conditions for the arrival of the divine envoy, and as long as everyone sincerely prays, believes in God, and prays for blessings, God will definitely send us a divine envoy.

When the Spaniards heard this, they felt that it made sense. So the Spaniards spontaneously organized themselves and began a huge activity of "making gods for all" -- Franco, who was also making gods and knew how to encourage Franco, who "mobilized the people" to do such blasphemous things, was obviously a hundred times more clever than the Italians, who could only do the dirty work himself.

With the covert encouragement and support of the Franco regime, a statue of the "Spanish Heroic Spirit" was soon molded. And the "patriotic" Spanish people consciously "invited" into the church.

In this way, Spain miraculously expelled the influence of the "religious invasion" of Spain by Britain and Germany, and by Christmas 1943, more than seventy percent of the churches in Spain had added statues of their own heroes. And the Spanish were "very wise" enough to "invite" one of the seven archangels to come down and name him Uriel.

And the only remaining battleship of the Spaniards was also equipped with a female version of the bow of the archangel Uriel

In order to get their own "divine messenger", Spain retreated in great strides, and all the people, inspired by religious enthusiasm, ran together to the Middle Ages, and began a lively national dance of the great gods.

Since the history of modern Spaniards is only six or seven hundred years, this makes the Spaniards feel a little uneasy in their hearts. In order to ensure that they could be favored by the "heroic spirits", the Spaniards began to "misrepresent their ancestors". They quietly changed their textbooks and even included the Romans and Carthaginians in their history.

Franco and the bishops of all parts of Spain prescribed that every Spanish citizen should spend five minutes every day before dinner praying devotionally, not to God, not to the Virgin, not to Jesus, but to the unknown archangel Uriel.

In the Middle Ages, this practice would have been regarded as blasphemy and heresy. To be sent to the barbecue. But now, the majority of Spaniards don't think there's anything wrong with that. Instead, those who oppose it. They would be labeled "unpatriotic" and "heretical" and sent to the religious brainwashing camp that Franco had prepared for them to be educated.

After this incident, Catholicism succeeded in "changing its skin" in Spain, becoming another new branch of Christ, and finally saying goodbye to the Vatican.

Of course, in the process. There are also discordant voices that do not bird Franco's government.

The Basque Country is located in the north of Spain, south of the Bay of Biscay on the Atlantic Ocean, and bordered by France in the northeast across the Pyrenees. It includes the provinces of Árawa, Gibskqua and Vizcay. It covers an area of 7,233 square kilometers and has a population of about one million people, and is adjacent to the Autonomous Region of Navarra. and the three departments of southern France: Bas-Navarre, Rabuch and Soule, where the Basques, and the majority ethnic group of present-day Spain, do not have a pot of pee.

The Basques are the oldest people in Europe and are known as the living fossils of Western Europeans. As early as 150,000 years ago, the land in the western foothills of the Pyrenees was inhabited by humans. From about 32,000 BC to 8500 BC, the "Basque race" appeared, which gradually formed the present-day Basque people. The Basques are proud of their own unique language, history, and cultural customs that are different from those of other European peoples, and have a strong sense of nationality. The Basques are tough and stubborn, and have fought off foreign invasions (Romans, Visigoths and Moors) many times throughout their history. It is this strong sense of national identity that has enabled the Basque people, after the wear and tear of history, to maintain their own national traditions and live in a fixed area for a long time. This was the basis on which Basque nationalism was born.

The Romans eventually invaded Arava in the first century BC. They brought Catholicism to the Basques. Curiously, the conservative Basques have adopted a tolerant attitude towards this foreign religion (in this respect, the Basque separatist movement does not contain a strong religious element like several of its kind). In the 13th century, the Kingdom of Castile attempted to unify the Iberian Peninsula. Although the Basque Country retained many privileges, it gradually lost its autonomy until it finally became part of the Kingdom of Spain at the end of the 19th century. However, it should also be noted that the loss of autonomy in the Basque Country has coincided with the rise of Basque nationalist movements. Due to its abundance of products and the ease of port transportation, the Basque Country became an important industrial region in Spain during this period. With the development of economy and trade, the Basques began to resent, and at the same time, they became dissatisfied with the shackles of the relatively backward Spanish central power, and at the same time excluded the proletarians from the provinces.

Founded in 1959 to oppose Franco's authoritarian dictatorship, ETA is a local radical nationalist organization. The goal of establishing a sovereign Basque State in order to achieve its national independence.

During the Spanish Civil War, the main ethnic group of Spain fought their own blood, and the Basques on the border with West France were on the side of the Republican Army at that time, and many people died in the war, and they were also liquidated by Franco after the war. Neither Lynn nor Hannah are good people, and Lynn herself has little interest in stirring in Spain, but for Hannah, she also looks down on the Franco regime in England.

After the end of the French War, while the war in Europe was still going on, Hannah ordered the German troops stationed on the Spanish border to quietly support and cultivate the separatist forces in the Basque Country, to block Franco, and to send guns and artillery to help train "freedom" fighters. At that time, she also wanted to increase the pressure on Franco to give way to the Germans in order to attack Gibraltar. If Franco doesn't agree, these Basques are the best party to lead the way.

Later, when Franco was unable to withstand the pressure of the Germans to give way to the Germans, Germany temporarily suspended its support for the Basque separatist forces.

But there are some things, starting up, it is difficult to extinguish them. While Franco called on the people of the whole country to contribute their faith to the birth of the "Divine Messenger", the Basques did not like Franco. On the advice of experts sent by the Germans and the British, they decided to do something else.

Although they were Catholics, the Basques did not invite Franco's archangel Uriel into their church. They erected a statue of Gabriel in the Catholic church. With the support of the Germans, Franco had no way to take the Basques for the time being.

The impact of the sacred impact on Britain and Germany on the old Christian forces was enormous. Britain and Germany, because of the strong executive power of the government, the proper guidance of the government, and the promotion of the unity and mutual recognition of the national groups in the country, are more beneficial than disadvantages, but in a country like Spain, the poor ability of the central government, coupled with the interference and destruction of external factors, has caused a certain degree of intensification of national (crab) division. (To be continued......)

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