Yes, not normal in a normal context. However if you're fighting against a dictatorship it fully qualifies as heroism. When dictatorship comes to your country (madness is growing everywhere so be prepared) you'll be grateful for anyone fighting against it, or one day you'll be the one writing "... then one day they came for me, but there was no one left to fight for me".

Under a dictatorship it ought to be.

"Killing people I don't like is ok" is not a very nice line of thinking

Wow, didn't know that teenager's protesting Franco is actually worse and has a higher body count than... checks notes... the Franco Regime.

Any other insights you'd like to add?

> Killing people I don't like is ok

it's so sad that the allies killed so many Axis soldiers in WW2 right? wasn't very nice :(

Sadly the article doesn't paint them as heroic:

> and when the police turned up, scatter in every direction.

Whoever they set out to burn alive was very likely defenseless.

A fascist dictatorship is not a very nice goverment.