The wave of protest marches sparked by the thoughtless comments of a Canadian cop are starting to become global. What has this poor man set in motion?

Various internal and external factors allowed the regime of General Franciso Franco to last as long as it did. The Franco regime managed to last longer than the two regimes that allowed it to win the Spanish Civil War, Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. The Franco regime lasted longer than the other fascist and authoritarian right-wing regimes of Central and Eastern Europe such as those of Hungary and Romania.