¡La Guerra de Corea!
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Semana de Manila was also linked to Spanish Francoist foreign propaganda, publishing many articles by Falangist intellectuals and defending Hispanism, anti-communism, and the lifting of any restrictions on Franco’s Spain, by then diplomatically isolated.
Rafael S. Ripoll, one of the directors of the Spanish-speaking journal El Debate (1919 - ca. 1970) published an article on September 7, 1950, remembering the start of the Korean War on June 5. The article paid special attention to the decision-making process within the UN, highlighting the Russian collusion with the invasion and the belief that communists would now use both subversion and direct military action in his conquest of independent nations, menacing the Philippines, involved in the conflict with a contingent led by Mariano C. Azurin and a key player in the US global defense system.
Typically for the Cold War period, the article finished hoping for a victory of freedom with the help of God and faith in the cause. Nevertheless, Ripoll mimicked the Francoist rhetoric of the alienation of the “reds”, making communists foreign enemies of the nation, dehumanizing them, and legitimizing their total destruction. Interestingly, for Ripoll these red hordes that invaded the Republic of Corea were as barbaric as the Japanese.
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