The two were never, for this reason, ostracized for their anti-democratic violence (under the pretext of anti-communism) by the major imperialist powers. Washington rehabilitated them after 1945 (Salazar was a founding member of NATO and Spain consented to U.S. military bases), followed by the European Community—guarantor by nature of the reactionary capitalist order.
Per questa ragione, i due non furono mai ostracizzati per la loro violenza antidemocratica (con il pretesto dell'anticomunismo) dalle maggiori potenze imperialiste.