Cross posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/31438063
Spanish socialism criticizes Franco’s dictatorship …
In December, Sánchez announced more than 100 events to celebrate that anniversary. In his presentation of these events, the socialist leader stated that with Franco’s death, Spain went from “being a dictatorship, poor and isolated, to one of the most complete democracies in the world” […]
… but it has friendly relations with the communist dictatorship of China
Last year, the PSOE (Sánchez’s party) held a cordial meeting with representatives of the Communist Party of China (CPC), that is, the sole party of the largest dictatorship in the world, directed from Beijing and which has governed mainland China for 76 years without free elections, systematically violating human rights and committing the largest genocides perpetrated by the movement communist, with up to 82 million deaths during Mao’s bloody rule. Of all current dictatorships, Beijing’s is the one that has killed the most people, by far.
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A communist dictatorship that violates human rights
Let us remember that Communist China (and I call it that so as not to confuse it with free and democratic China, also known as Taiwan) occupies 172nd place out of 180 countries in the Reporters Without Borders world press freedom list, a worse position than other dictatorships such as Venezuela, Russia, Belarus and Cuba.
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The Chinese version of the Gulag and the Uyghur genocide
Let us also remember that the CPC dictatorship maintains a vast network of concentration camps and detention centers, the Laogai, which is the Chinese version of the Soviet Gulag, where political prisoners have been imprisoned for a wide variety of reasons for 76 years, suffering all kinds of inhuman and degrading treatment.
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Sánchez doesn’t seem to care about all these atrocities, about which he has never even voiced the slightest criticism. If all that mattered to him, he wouldn’t praise the dictatorship that commits them, and his party wouldn’t have such friendly relations with the CPC.
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Heritage Foundation tier shitposting tbh.